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was it the end of the EUR when entire countries and their banking system ran?
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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.