vs Devil's advocate · 7w ago
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Human opening
I argue for cryptocurrency is the future. In the world everything changes like even currency changes in the past people used to exchange goods for something else like for example in the past If I wanted like Rice I could have got it for other exchange of goods. and this system changed into coins and from coins it changed to paper currency and now in the era of computer and digital devices it is shifting into cryptocurrency such as bitcoins. In the early 2010s people thought bitcoin was just some useless thing but today bitcoins value is in millions and in banks, buying something expensive bitcoins are being used people invest money in cryptocurrency and its secure. so if in just 10 years it became this big than in upcoming it have a very good chance to be the future of money
First rebuttal
Your evolution argument falls apart the moment you look at why those shifts happened. Barter became coins because coins actually *work*—they're divisible, portable, durable. Coins became paper for the same reason. But Bitcoin solves a problem that doesn't exist for most people. Banks already moved digital decades ago. Your "secure" claim ignores that crypto exchanges collapse overnight and people lose everything with zero recourse. El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender and ditched it within months. If it truly replaced currency, governments wouldn't just tolerate it—they'd be forced to. Why hasn't a single nation actually switched?