Suitcoiner checking in. Talking with former Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Nakaso about Bitcoin.
From a Bitcoin perspective the words that kept coming up when I mentioned it were: "Cody, it's just too volatile!"
Of course purchasing power stability is a key part of a currency, whatever school of economics you hail from. You need a stable currency to be able to price contracts and build out supply chains. However we must also recognise that all fiat currencies are engineered to lose value over the long term (and often suddenly in the short term, too).
Bitcoiners would say that "volatility is price discovery" and point to the way the number has gone up over the last 16 years to give a hint of what hard money smells like.
But what if the truth is somewhere in the middle? The institution of Central Banking has changed in form over the decades, indicating that it is not a static and forever concept. What if a reform takes places where the ability to pull those monetary levers is more and more constrained by a hard money base, such as Bitcoin?
What if Bitcoin acts as a forcing function on sovereign currencies? E.g. A great big sword hanging over policy missteps ready to drop?
OR does Bitcoin do nothing of the kind? Or does it destroy that system completely? ... I don't know know.
Clearly Bitcoin is a better store of value and is the hardest money we know. But what needs to happen for a new economic order to emerge?
Is it a case that those innovations of credit lines, financial institutions, and the "suits" are the next logical step? How can the decentralised and self-sovereign properties of Bitcoin be lifted up at the same time as its economic value appreciates?
Watch this space!
