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If people actually started using it as a currency instead of only using it to trade for other currencies, it would be more stable.


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The more that people use it, the more stable the currency will get.

In what concrete way would this situation be made better with a stable currency?

Alternatively we could maintain a stable currency people can rely on as a store of value.

Too unstable and too slow to actually replace money, but it's definitely got a future as a supplemental currency.

I think more that it needs some utility over other currencies within some context. That utility margin will bring stability.

Not sure what you and people are looking for. It's a decentralised currency that already solved many issues for people around the world. Now if people stopped speculating into stupid things so it were a bit more stable... Then again, no currency is stable right now. My USD also devalue faster than I can spend them.

Yes, a stable currency also helps people to intelligently buy unstable assets. This is a point for the other team, not yours.

It's a speculative commodity, which, if gaining enough traction and liquidity could provide a viable alternative for a currency.

I think that it is good to have such an option. It may not catch as the #1 currency in our lifetime, but it helps to move things forward.

Maybe that's the point. By accelerating the use of it as a currency, it may become more widely used by larger commercial interests that the government can lean on.

In fact it is „more stable than some national currencies“

It's not possible to have a 100% stable currency. At their core currencies are human opinions of how much to exchange for a product or service. But human opinion changes on a whim.

I think a currency could be stabilized by automatically adding coins to the total when people feel they want to hoard them, such as economic panics and reducing them when they feel they want to use it without care such as when the economy is booming.

It has to be automatic but finding a way to do that is the big question. But what and how? Use an index, maybe but it has to be impartial and give a true view of how people feel about the economy at the time.

For the US dollar the Federal Reserve is responsible for increasing and decreasing the money supply but they have truckloads of people telling them how the economy is doing.

A cryptocurrency has potential since in theory you can figure out exactly how people are using them.

Additionally, the supply has to increase as more people use it to create economic goods and services. If you don't, there won't be enough currency to go around and it will limit the potential products/services that people can create and consume.


That was true initially, but because of its price it became impractical as a currency.

People are now only buying it as an investment, investment in what? It inherently doesn't have any value or utility.


True, but this behavior prompts people to hoard rather than spend. It won't really be used as a currency at any scale until it stabilizes.

I want a stable currency that is easy and cheap to transact. All that other stuff is just idealism.

If it was meant to be a currency it seems to have failed. You want the value of currency to be less unpredictable.

Generating efficient prices through a deep market actually would make it more useful as a currency. (FOREX markets are good examples)

No, it will a be a stable currency that people actually use without even thinking about it to make instant money transfers at zero cost.

It's impossible for any currency to be stable in the period before it gains mainstream acceptance. Fiat currencies share the same fate
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