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According to this post by Adrian Barkley (https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2020/03/bitcoin-could-be-the-key-peace?utm_source=OneSignal&utm_medium=App), it says crypto can elevate the individual over the dominance of corporations and government due to the fact it is a decentralized asset. It further reiterated that people should focus on taking the power back for themselves, decentralizing power. And it starts with bitcoin instead of protesting on the streets, where the risk of getting injured or killed is a lot greater.

I am in 100% align with his belief or what did you think?

It's more about blockchain decentralisation than just bitcoin in specific. Imo, bitcoin would take a long time to replace the actual fiat which is still idealistic to be true.
The world peace seems to be also an imaginary thought. I can say that humanity has more chance to unify as a global community and may achieve more freedom.

Bitcoin is empowering indeed but it does not really bring the individual to a level higher than the corporations and governments. That is taking it a bit too far. The truth of the matter is that the power still rests on the people. Nothing has changed really. It's just that the great majority of the people are already indifferent or apathetic to what's happening around. They need to wake up first.

Bitcoin as a key to world peace is, again, taking it a bit too much. World peace is a vision which is impossible to reify with or without Bitcoin. But, of course, it does not mean that efforts to attain it are simply a waste. The process is always better than the result in this regard.

I have read time and again how some people are interpreting Bitcoin as if it is a silver bullet to end global poverty, boost countries' economies, provide freedom to the people, key to world peace, and so on and so forth. I think we need to take a pause and look at what Bitcoin really is.

That's a powerful statement! Bitcoin effectively brought decentralization of monetary power to the world and that is being seen as a challenge by the governments and banks worldwide! Because with bitcoin, people won't need basic banking services anymore. So that's a big threat to the banking business and since banking sector is the main funding provider to the government and has a very strong lobby within the bureaucracy, governments are also seeing it under a negative light.

Decentralization of monetary power can be a good thing for democracy, but it shouldn't lead to social unrest later on by some evil forces with the power to radicalize people!   

I like his idea about the protest. Instead of people going to protest, they can easily give their thoughts and idea that the government should give back what the people deserve.

And through buying bitcoin, it's like that because bitcoin is decentralized and it's more of the power of the people who have it. Because, we are the ones who are determining the greater value of bitcoin and they don't have authority to control it but they all have the means to regulate businesses that uses bitcoin.

I don't think Bitcoin will make USA stop attacking countries for their oil, or bitcoin will end with Religion wars. Some problems are deeper than an economic problem. Maybe bitcoin could stop some poverty but it will not stop some crazy powerful people from abuse.

I do not know about World Peace, but Bitcoin can help to have a more transparent voting system and it might help to reduce the impact that a corrupt government might have on a country. When you have transparency, you have accountability to your voters and that is what most of these governments needs.  ;)

Bitcoin can also help to make tender processes more transparent, so there will be less corruption in the whole procurement and payment process <Blockchain transparency> and this will put more funds towards projects that would provide services to the citizens of that country. < The funds will not be stolen and redirected to government officials pockets.>  ;)

it is such a naive thing to say in my opinion. world peace has nothing to do with taking power back from corporations and government through decentralizing money. the wars all around the world will continue as long as human beings are ambition and psychopaths are in seats of power wanting to expand their territory, keep their "supremacy",...

Exactly. Governments can actually be part of crypto though.
I think it will help make government  more responsible, less corrupt, less wasteful, more honest etc. I believe there are lots of people in governments that want to be good/honest but can't, due to the current order.
I doubt cryptocurrency will bring world peace though. True World peace can only be achieved under the universal Kingship of the coming True MESSIAH.

"He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore." — Isaiah 2:4

Audio Book of Isaiah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6oYhZCgN6c&list=PLHZp_z2RSv22NTf-Mqsfj9adjWMtuMSIe&index=24&t=0s

I think we already saw what decentralization can bring to the table, that's why we've seen governments and banks turn their back on crypto because they know it will challenge the status quo. And that is what we are seeing right now, so its either government join the movement, otherwise they will be left in the closest.

And as Bitcoin enthusiast, we have seen that it gives up monetary power and financial freedom from big corporations, and I think this will hold true in the next decade.

It's been 11 years, and people still sometimes talk how Bitcoin will soon solve poverty, economic problems, change society and now apparently it can even achieve world peace. But before anything like that can happen, Bitcoin needs to achieve some critical level of adoption - maybe 40-60% o the population, and we are still insanely far away from it. So, instead of dreaming about future greatness, it's better to focus on solving the current task.

IMO,  bitcoin has many limitation that will make it a very difficult task to become a global currency. The government or country all have a currency that they call theirs and even countries whose currencies have devalued would not accept to adopt another country's currency totally, Therefore, that is one major limitation.

If only for economic issues, maybe it's possible for bitcoin to bring peace to all countries (if they all agree at this) but for so many issues around the world about beliefs, religions, society, and many other things, and I don't think bitcoin can make any solution about that. World peace is a very big word and it is really hard to achieve or we can it is impossible to achieve because of people's different mindsets about everything. So I don't think bitcoin and the blockchain technology can make world peace.

Guys, you have to be a little realistic. Bitcoin cannot be a cure for all. World peace is a utopia. I personally can see it with my eyes every day.

We expect blockchain and Bitcoin to be the solution to everything. I don't think this is possible.

I can say that humanity has more opportunities to unite as a global community and can achieve more freedom. I don't know about World Peace, but Bitcoin can help have a more transparent electoral system and maybe help reduce the impact that corrupt governments might have against a country. And that is what we are witnessing now, so any government that joins the movement, otherwise they will be left nearby. And people sometimes still talk about how Bitcoin will soon solve poverty, economic problems, change society and now it seems it can even achieve world peace.

I support Bitcoin and world peace sounds great but the idea seems utopian to me. For one, 98% of the world population don't use Bitcoin. With such a small percentage of users, it can be very difficult to predict the outcome. Moreover, among the users of Bitcoin aren't only protesters that want to live in a better world, there're also people involved in very nasty things like arms sales, human trafficking, terrorism. So clearly using Bitcoin doesn't make you an advocate of peace. Finally, I am pretty sure that a very big amount of people wouldn't want to win over the big corporations and stuff (we're not all "Mr. Robots"), so this could trigger a war between those who value personal financial freedom and those who prefer to have some institutions supposedly protecting them.

Not necessarily bitcoin could help in terms of the transparency but its backend which is the blockchain, unalterable and indeed reliable source of legit data. This would probably help a nation which uses it to avoid cheating during election which might result to a better governance due to accountable and rightfully people sitting to the power chairs. But somehow the world peace is too off for this, people could still go to wars even they have a great life, it is just for economic purposes like a booster and does not target any type of beliefs.

The chances for Bitcoin to replace fiat is slim to none rather if that happens, it may take a very long time.
While, chances for world peace to happen is zero, and yes I agree, it's just imaginary. With humans developing hundreds or thousands of ideas everyday, it's inevitable to have contradicting ideas which led to misunderstanding and a cold war, and I don't think blockchain and Bitcoin can do something about it. While protesting is always the way out to be heard by the masses and government.

Bitcoin as the mainstream manifestation of the Blockchain will take some good reasonable years to achieve this goal of being the world single currency. If this happen, the world will know peace again but, many world powers will fight against Bitcoin be see as the world currency. Let put the facts straight, Blockchain will bring the government close to Bitcoin because, the happenings right now is that: the world has started building their own Blockchain, and some contemplating on building their country digital currency. We have just saw India bouncing back to accept the fact that, Blockchain and cryptocurrency still look fresh with fill opportunities to tap. The government through Blockchain will find love with Bitcoin, "even though it tarry, we will wait."

There is still a long way to go and I don't think this is a easy feat to achieve and in order to achieve what you have mentioned Bitcoin should be adopted by atleast half of the world's population as its still an alien thing for most and we have surely made progress in last decade but this is not enough to bring peace and gaining own control, I am sorry to differ but I don't agree that Bitcoin would bring peace.

Money isn't always the reason why there are protests and demonstrations in the streets, so the notion that if everyone has the money and the monetary power, a lot of societal problems and issues would be fixed. If anything, this will just increase the amount of disparity between the rich and the poor, as rich people would become richer and the middle-class would be rich, leaving the ultra poor behind, eating dusts and still being mistreated for the most part.

Utopia will never be achieved in this world if our common goal is to be rich. Money will always be rhe root cause of society's decay no matter what the setting is. Bitcoin will just be an instrument for many more injustices and unfair practices as it's also a form of money existing digitally.

I agree with you. I don’t really envisioned a world in the future where  cryptocurrencies had replaced fiat. For me, I don’t think it would replace fiat but rather become another mode of payment and work hand in hand with other methods of transacting. Having more choice I think is the definition of freedom which would foster growth especially when we talk about economy.

Bitcoin can really makes us unite as one because if all of us uses bitcoin in our daily lives, we can help each other relate on what we do. Also as our technology develops, mass adoption is directly proportional to it so bitcoin can become more useful and increase its volume in the market. But the only thing makes the world cruel is money, resources and etc., resources are limited and at the same time, also the bitcoin. We are having a hard time to manage it and manipulate it properly that's why people are having some conflicts or most probably war. That's the reason that world peace is an imaginary thought, but I believe that we can do something about it. Government should do something about that to prevent more disagreement in the future.

I think that the power and advantages of decentralization are a bit exaggerated.
I mean,yeah you have your own coins and you own your private keys,but so what?You still need to join a cryptocurrency exchange platform and deposit your coins there,in order to sell them.Crypto exchange platforms are corporations as well.They take a little part of your financial freedom,when you agree with their Terms of Services.
I really don't know how crypto can help for achieving world peace.Do you think that ISIS members and talibans from Afghanistan will become peaceful after they adopt BTC.This sounds absurd to me.

Yes sure, Bitcoin is going to help a lot of people but the thing is that they worry too much about the volatility. One of my friends said that Libra has the possibility of doing this same thing and giving the power over to the people, but I doubted it and I still doubt it because Libra is not like Bitcoin.

Unlike Bitcoin, Libra is controlled by organization (Facebook and other organizations that are under the Libra Association), and I made him understand that. He liked Libra because of the idea that it will be stable and created by Facebook which is a big company lol. From the beginning I have known Facebook as a company that’s power hungry and likes to dig into people’s privacy. Bitcoin is the true cryptocurrency we should be look out for.

Yes, Bitcoin can bring decentralized power. Users are onto the revolution of legalizing Bitcoin. For me, world peace, if we are to think of it, is a far and high peak to reach. This is because there are several factors as to why we can't attain yet the world peace we want. We see lot of people dying everyday, caused by the citizen in that country or an alien. We see terrorism, we see corruption. And come to think of it, if countries would have decentralized power, don't you think that this can lead to either increase or decrease of the economy of a country? Of course, there would be an effect on it - even a little percentage. What happens now to third world countries? Will they become servants of the 1st world ones and ask for power because they can't have their own?

Well, nothing is impossible they say. Who knows, if we are to continue joining forces, Bitcoin, perhaps, can unite us all.

Some youth in my circle who decided to embrace what comes with bitcoin, have reduced blaming the government for their financial woes, they make gain trading bitcoin and working with various blockchain start ups, they realized there are many territory to conquer. I wish more persons could  see the future in decentralization.

We should always consider the first thing that may happen.
World peace?
With how people react with every movement, even the good ones? They will find holes to make it look bad even for the purpose of humanity.

It will not happen.
I do believe in bitcoin but I don't want to go that far into thinking it can create world peace.
People always want power, money and freedom. Bitcoin don't have that characteristic.
Let us be real here. Even if one country tries to make it as their currency, that doesn't even mean there will be peace in that country.

Maybe if there will be only 1 human being left, yes, that is world peace.

"World Peace" is something that does not depend on an asset or a physical thing or any particular thing.
It will only be attained when everybody has inner peace and truly believes in each other.
Only when we understand each other and respect each other's values in order to help each other and solve problems, we will be truly achieving world peace.

Agreed, I also believed that though the use of cryptocurrencies can improved someones life, I claimed it because personally, I did somehow experience this but not exactly. It is more likely, I can now provide my necessities and even pay my expenses. However, the idea of "it could be the key on World Peace" is a little bit exaggerated. Besides, Crypto was not the key but rather the changes will be started upon themselves.

Many people now are using bitcoin and other related coins like cryptocurrency because we know the potential of this coin to make more earning, and also, this coin can give us a considerable market profit for the next coming years of the transaction. Still, today we can use the cryptocurrency especially the bitcoin to make more earnings because it is like our currency from the different country it is just a fiat currency that converted into digital currency or online money because it is faster to make more transaction with this kind of process also it is less hassle and does not take too much queue management for the sending or transferring of funds. In relating to the topic, if bitcoin will help to decrease poverty to the world, it may help a lot, but if not, I  think it is just for faster transaction, we have different thoughts about it, and this is just my perspective only.

Definitely, we , all should know the value of peace, it is priceless. We cannot define the World peace by anything that has a cost just like love, hatred and other feelings.
Bitcoin could probably give from the war started when the cryptocurrency existed whether which is better to use if Fiat or cryptocurrency. Well the fact that we are still using fiat now dominantly there is no argue with it since cryptocurrencies are just alternatives but the thing is, are we going to have enough for this issue? I guess that is where the world peace for both currency.

Well, that is so true. A lot of people wanted it but it is so impossible to achieve with a lot of conflicts that are engraved in the history of this world. Crypto currencies have a different goal and it is usually circling around decentralization and anonymity. World Peace is quite impossible but who knows, it might start a peace in a country in some way.

In my opinion, it is not interconnected. The war will continue as long as there are still many egos to control one another and expand influence throughout the world. The freedom of decentralization offered by bitcoin and other cryptos is very much against the government and banks' working systems, where they control everything. That is why the cryptocurrency legality is very limited, the government has full authority to regulate the economy in the country. Well, the government must also think about the freedom of rights of each citizen so that it gives specific rules regarding crypto, so study it well.

Yup, I think that the most important part of getting people into crypto is just showing them that it's real and it's not some scam someone online thought of. Educating users should be the most important thing in our minds should be to let other people know about what you can already do with bitcoin. I saw a thread the other day about a guy organizing seminars and such, and I think to truly drive adoption up, more stuff like this need to happen.

Your post is very interesting. I had never considered that Bitcoin could contribute in this way to world peace, and I think there is some truth in that. With Bitcoin the power of individuals over governments, and large corporations, is increased and I think that is one of the reasons for the concern of governments with the advance of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
The current monetary system is strong, but in just 11 years of creating Bitcoin it has generated a true revolution that is beginning to generate its effects, and we can observe these effects with the proposals of some central banks to create their own cryptocurrencies to conserve, even certain point, control your monetary system and collect taxes from its citizens.

I believe that at a time when Bitcoin will be recognized worldwide and will be used by most people, the value of Bitcoin will be much more stable than any fiat currencies today.  The fact is that Bitcoin will make it possible to avoid inflation in many countries that the government is manipulating, thereby depreciating the savings of its people.  Since Bitcoins have a limited amount, no one can print them more like fiat money.

Maybe not on some countries, but third world countries usually go out in demostrations against how their goverment is handling resources, which boils down to missmanagement of funds - money. Yes there are other demostrations but they're the exception imo, there's just so many conflicts we don't hear about it's easy to think our local issues are the only issues when it's just far from the truth.

I don't think so. It's not actually world peace that you are saying, it's more on standing alone and not depending on the government's issued money. If you want to remove government's dominance, it will just cause a conflict between the citizen's and the government so there would be no world peace. And what's the purpose of having a government if you don't want them to rule your country?
Having decentralized currency won't lead to a peace. It isn't all about money. How about war, can Bitcoin help to stop a war?

I will want to ask how can that happen that bitcoin will bring world peace ? Fiat never brought peace to a country or family. In a family where there are other elements that causes disagreement, the disagreement has to be resolved before talking about peace. Likewise in the world, there are so many elements that are bringing about rancour, from nuclear weapon to many other vices. So how can bitcoin bring peace ?

Imagine bitcoin being the legal tender of most developed countries in the world. it will go a long way in bringing the world together.
but that won't be an easy task cause some countries won't still concur with the idea.

I mean why would they even make it that way when the price can be controlled by the whales, that is just a short cut of saying whales control the world, right? Another thing is the volatility, the decentralization and the anonymity of bitcoin and other crypto currencies. I am not being negative here but it might not even happen since they know all of this.

peace cannot be generate by Currencies in my own views.

because Governments are still wanting their currencies to be more valuable to others and having bitcoin?of course they will never allowed to have this together and their fiat will just gone like that.

but we knew also that this is same reason why adoption is not happening because of not having 1 stand.

Of course, I completely agree with him. The authority must be restored and decentralized, instead of protesting. This is much better. Thus, the government is moving towards encryption and confidence in the cryptocurrency, especially Bitcoin.

I wouldn't say Bitcoin is cure-all medicine, nor it is THE key to world peace, but taking away the power from fiat and war-loving folks will definitely change the situation

Maybe not bitcoin, maybe some digital currency in the future, but yes it is possible.

I agree with the idea that with the value of bitcoin we can think of the benefits of cryptocurrencies in promoting individual value, it can also reduce the ego. too big of a nation with a strong military background.

Peace is at stake when people fight for power .
Something that gives everyone power according to the amount they hold , without any centralized body governing it .
One already know how countries are fighting , how government is imposing laws to govern Bitcoins. But they are not able to do that .
It can help world Peace if people leave it be , stop influencing the market at their own pace , whales are causing Bitcoin price to be influenced drastically over the years.

Bitcoin is money, isn't it? I believe in the few next year there will be many people who consider that bitcoin is money.

So, it can't give anything for the human being in the future I mean for the benefit them selves. I saw on this article that bitcoin is an instrument that can give a more convince for human being in the future.

I mean everyone can get benefit from bitcoin and able to beat up a company. But I don't agree with that even since it decentralized system, the government won't ever make the utilization of bitcoin develop on their country because they didn't have any tool to watching over it.

Bitcoin will be an alternative to pay anything beside money fiat, as you can see know there are some weaknesses from money fiat and actually bitcoin can handled it like sending money for different country who just take a few times and need low fees.

World peace?im sorry but i dont believe that bitcoin wwould become the reason of world peace.Bitcoin cant make the government And all its official be righteous always,not to do wrong and always do the right things.Its should everybody's will.

I agree 100% that Bitcoin is the most important element for world peace, yes.

The world was historically trapped in a trust problem, about who is the most trusted party, more trusted than others.

Bitcoin has dissolved that whole trust problem. It couldn't possibly be a bigger success for peace - we now trust the Bitcoin protocol which is neutral mathematics, instead of persons who are corruptible.