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Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

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Re: Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

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> No lender is going to exchange foreign denominated loans for Lira denominated loans during a currency crisis. They won't get that chance. When the firm is put into administration those foreign loans will be written off, which pushes the loss home to where it belongs - people lending in dollars to entities that have unhedged income in lira. The state/local investors then buy the firm out of administration with lira…

Ok, but then you are advocating that they default on their loans and destroy their credit rating. ...which eliminates their ability to borrow money for several years. And that can have severe impacts on the trade that exists today as creditors scramble to seize Turkish assets held in foreign banks/ports/contracts. It's a much much more destructive move than what you're describing.

"which eliminates their ability to borrow money for several years"

Not really. It's a refinancing of the firm in a new structure. That happens all the time - with huge amounts of borrowed money.

Getting rid of deadweight loans and refinancing elsewhere is what administration is for, and what happens regularly.

In fact freeing up collateral and sending losses abroad makes a firm more creditworthy, not less.

Re: Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

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WTF happened here, my new comments are all flagged as dead, why??? I swear I have nothing to do with anything you are implying, why should I reply with a different account when I could have used this one? and BTW my comment had positive upvotes! that's not me, why in the hell I am being punished for something I haven't done and had no reason to do???? please reverse your decision, you're making a big mistake here. I…

Your account appears to be one of a long series of accounts we've previously banned. The holder of these accounts has not only been breaking the site guidelines and getting banned here for years, they've also used multiple accounts in the same threads to appear to be multiple people, which is obviously an abuse in its own right.

you haven't reconsidered yet?
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