to expalain why fiat is the biggest crap on earth I will explain how banks happen to exist.
The history of banks
In a town back some centuries, people made some trades with goods, let say you had a 10 cats, but wanted a dog. You could go to the a person with a dog and offer him 10 cats. Really crappy situation if the guy with the dog, doesn´t like cats. So people started to use some kind of currency, and it were some metalls (like copper, silver), but finally gold, because it is rare and looks nice. So the guy with the 10 cats sold his cats for 10 gold coins, and then bought the dog of the guy with this 10 gold coins. Everything was fine
People who had lets say one million gold coins feared that they were robbed and furthermore it was quite uncomfortable to carry around gold, it´s very heavy. So some guy built a big safe and offered people to store their gold. Of course people had to get a receipt that they stored gold in the bank, and tada fiat currencies were born. So for example in ancient times if you had 1$, you could go to the bank and say, my gold please, and you got your gold which you gave the bank.
After no time, the guys at the bank had a bunch of brilliant ideas
- they could give out loans with the money other people gave them
- they could give a small interest for all people who gave them money, to get even more money to give out more loans
- and finally the worst thing, they could give out so much more receipts for gold (= $) because no one wanted his gold, everybody traded with the receipts, in other words with the depts the bank had by them
In the first place banks feared a so called bank run, thats when suddenly a bunch of people realizes that the receipts are crap, and want their gold back. In this case the bank couldn´t give back all the gold because for example the only have 10% of the promised gold.
What role does the bitcoin play here ?
The bitcoin is exactly like gold, you just can´t create more than those 21 million (or all the gold on earth), you just can mine more but mining gets harder (and no it is not a coincidence that the word mining fits for Gold an bitcoin) after some time.
In my opinion there is one big advantage of Gold and BTC.
Advantage of Gold: In case of a millenium bug (all electronical devices break at the same time, in case of f.e. a big sunstorm or a coordinated EMP attack) you can still trade with gold like nothing happened.
Advantage of Bitcoin: It is so much more convinient, you can trade with everyone around the world in just minutes. (I am just hoping the network solves the scaling problem fast)
and yea, pls move this to economics