With the debt crises in the eurozone, bitcoiners have been advocating the use of bitcoin in place of fiat. I don't think that will solve the problem on ground, people will always borrow money whether cash or bitcoins. What do you think?
There's no bad in borrowing money. It depends on how you will handle it. BTC or cash because you can pay back those you borrowed in time if you have hardwork and you make you borrowed cash or BTC in a productive way like investing and trading. the profit you earn can be the payment for the one you borrowed.
borrowing money is not bad, but with bitcoin you really have to have the money that you want to borrow. i can not write you on a paper that you have x bitcoin. i have to have them and then give them to you.
today banks operate in a way, that they do not have the money that they borrow you. they just make the money up out of thin air by simply adding it to your account.
that is quite a difference.
Actually, the basic principle is quite the same. Even when a bank creates the non existing money and add it to your account, you can still withdraw it in cash form since the bank in question has enough cash reserves to do so. What's the difference if you place a Bitcoin exchange in the same situation? They can also just create non existing Bitcoins and add them to your account. But with enough cash (Bitcoins in this case) reserves, the exchange can still pay you out by sending the coins to your wallet. The main difference is that banks have a "backdoor" to the government in which they can basically borrow endless amounts of money. With Bitcoin, the exchange acting as bank will run out of coins.
two things.
1. i was under the impression that an exchange (serious ones, not those who want to scam you) has the actual bitcoins they store fore the costumer. maybe in cold storage or some place else, but they could pay every costumer in the event of a "bankrun".
2. an exchange has no possibility to create new bitcoin, like the banks can create money. an exchange could "create" bitcoin by just writing some amount down in a costumers account, but this does not create new bitcoin, this would only create some digital "i owe you" which would be worthless, since another exchange would give you nothing (or at least no bitcoins) for it.
a banks "i owe you" is worth the actual amount and another bank would pay it out for you.