Bitcoin could one day be a preferred currency for conducting international trade

[Lorence.xD]

It will be preferred because currently is it untouchable when it comes to taxes which is a good thing for international trades, the prices of products shipped will be lower. Not to mention that businesses would want this kind of thing in order to pay less taxes.

[Wind_FURY]

According to analysts at Citibank, Bitcoin could one day be a preferred currency for conducting international trade.. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://worldpublicityblog.com/index.php/2021/03/04/according-to-analysts-at-citibank-bitcoin-could-one-day-be-a-preferred-currency-for-conducting-international-trade/

I believe not only for international trade, but also as a censorship-resistant Store of Value for Forbes 500 Companies, Government Treasuries, especially for third-world countries. Few understand the importance/implications of this. It balances power from the “haves”, to the “have nots”.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN2AW2MD?il=0&utm_source=reddit.com

Myanmar’s military rulers attempted to move about $1 billion held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York days after seizing power on Feb. 1, prompting U.S. officials to put a freeze on the funds, according to three people familiar with the matter, including one U.S. government official.

[sensimilia]

Im not sure that btc fees will make it a good tool for international payments. There are other reliable, fast and cheap coins on the market. LTC, for example.

[Mpamaegbu]

Has Tesla and some other multinational companies not been accepting Bitcoin as payment option for their services? That's nothing new again as it's already in place. However, being an international currency doesn't still mean every country will be comfortable using it. You know, I was taken aback when I discovered that even the British pounds sterling isn't an internationally accepted currency as against the widely accepted US dollar. Nonetheless, companies accepting Bitcoin on a large scale will further legitimize the crypto industry. I'm all for anything that gives Bitcoin a boost. That's all.

[amishmanish]

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Government Treasuries, especially for third-world countries. Few understand the importance/implications of this. It balances power from the “haves”, to the “have nots”.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN2AW2MD?il=0&utm_source=reddit.com

Myanmar’s military rulers attempted to move about $1 billion held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York days after seizing power on Feb. 1, prompting U.S. officials to put a freeze on the funds, according to three people familiar with the matter, including one U.S. government official.

Not really sure that even bitcoin is safe from the 5-dollar wrench attack when its a military coup and a whole damn country's treasury is at stake. In matters of despotic rulers, bitcoin's role is more important in empowering the individual. Then again, the situation for country's that suffer under careless governments and rulers has far more to do with just finances.

As an example, country's like Congo, Chile or even in the North-East suffer as much from the consumerism of rest of the world than just bad rulers.

[so98nn]

TBH, Bitcoin is more of an asset than a currency.

It really doesn't matter what you think(and I'm saying this in a polite and an non-aggressive way). Not because bitcoin is mostly used as a hedging asset(SoV) and as a speculative investment, it doesn't mean that some other people or companies wouldn't be able to use it as a currency.

Just say it's an asset and currency at the same time. The one who use it for cold storage and long term hodls they are just considering the crypto currency or bitcoin as an asset. May be asset of new era, new gold which has just begun it's journey towards the American dream per se!

It has all the characteristics of currency too. You can buy things with it, you can carry it in your digital wallet, and most important it has value based on the investors, users, and demand/supply.

So lets just not argue on this! Asset and Currency equal the bitcoin.  

[Trinx01]

According to analysts at Citibank, Bitcoin could one day be a preferred currency for conducting international trade.

I am also looking forward to this thing but I don't think that it would be possible for now but maybe in the future, it will be. Some considered bitcoin as their good asset and some considered as nothing cause out of knowledge, If we are going to compare people with knowledge about cryptocurrency to those people who don't know about it then we could say that those who don't know is much bigger and that is only one reason why bitcoin cant still be the standard currency all over the world. We have still not enough knowledge about it.

[Heisenberg_Hunter]

Im not sure that btc fees will make it a good tool for international payments. There are other reliable, fast and cheap coins on the market. LTC, for example.

I have been using bitcoin as the only tool for international payments for 2+ yrs but I have never faced a situation to shift over to another currency which could indeed be more or less a clone of bitcoin. LTC for example is a fork or a mere copycat introduced just to prove they are no less than bitcoin but failed in massive adoption. But XMR on the other hand is the only currency which is independent and never relied on bitcoin and had solved various problems which bitcoin faced in 2013. Fast forward to 2018-2020, we are having second layer payment solutions which can bridge the difficulty in daily transactions. If you closely look into the reason for the scalability, you would never move over to another currency once LN becomes mainstream and becomes a must for transactions everywhere.

For instance there were debates on the 10 minute block interval right since satoshi days and it shows that 10 minute should be a mandatory to prevent hard fork and improve decentralization. XMR on the other hand handles the transaction time using dynamic block size and a 2 minute block interval. But there were no reasonable code changes in LTC to prove it is indeed an independent currency.

TBH, Bitcoin is more of an asset than a currency.

If we are accepting the 1 MB block size, 21 million coins, 10 minute interval between subsequent blocks, POW and other features devised by satoshi then we need to accept the fact that bitcoin is a currency rather than a speculative asset. While it's true that many people consider bitcoin's volatility is impossible to be used as a currency, we need to understand that we are living in an inflationary world while bitcoin works for a deflationary economy. On the long term, deflationary economy would possibly prevent poverty i.e government print trillions based on the demand and supply model, hence the trillions are devalued over years if demand is reduced but in terms of bitcoin, it would function exactly the opposite. If every one of the bitcoiner possibly try to live in a deflationary economy, i.e spending bitcoin when we need and saving the rest our way of looking towards our current inflationary economy would change.

[Becky666]

According to analysts at Citibank, Bitcoin could one day be a preferred currency for conducting international trade.. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://worldpublicityblog.com/index.php/2021/03/04/according-to-analysts-at-citibank-bitcoin-could-one-day-be-a-preferred-currency-for-conducting-international-trade/

What this mean isn't in totality with your submission becasue the world is still looking at the possibility of Bitcoin be adopted as a currency now to talk about it be an international currency for trade. Still yet, there will be more time for the world to look into this digital currency and formulate something that could be control by the government.

At the moment the said Bitcoin can't be control and with this the world government won't accept this for international trade IMO.

[mezzaluna]

There is a common saying, "the future starts now."
Maybe they mean large-scale trade. In fact, we have started the future of international trade with bitcoin payments for a long time through this forum. And citibank also needs to venture further to various market sites in the world, especially dark web.

The future that we are talking about is also being developed on its way into a very revolutionary type of way to further advance our way of life. The occurring pandemic was one of the factors that really pushed every country to create an environment for everyone in which they have to at least learn about technologies and specifically use financial software's that would do their transactions for them. This is really one of the best way to further improve our quality of life and we should support and look for ways to improve it instead of mitigating its effect.

[MCobian]

Now Bitcoin is not only used as a digital asset, but it has indeed happened to be used for international trade. In fact, I have bought goods from
abroad using Bitcoin, so this is not new in my opinion. But there is still limited use of Bitcoin as payment, because apart from the number of merchants
who accept Bitcoin payments, it is still small. There are several countries that prohibit using Bitcoin as payment, therefore I hope that in the future
all countries will accept Bitcoin as a payment option.