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was it the end of the EUR when entire countries and their banking system ran?
and, holy cow, the largest bubble in history was the JPY bubble in the 1990s, yet JPY is still around
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This is true, kinda like how a train can take a corner real hard and people can fly off the roof.
But, who is selling seats on the roof of a train, that's a good question. Indeed as you say, fiat debt-based money has worked for a while --until now.
The people have been given the money making machines. So, the old ways will fade. You are right though, cryptocoin can endure a fair amount of criminality. The entire fiat money system has been taken over by gangsters as an alien facehugger takes over a human. So if fiat can endure the gangster-parasites, then yeah, you make a good point, cryptocoin can endure them as well.