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Topic: Should countries accept coins at governmental level? (Read 288 times)

legendary
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Accepting a crypto that wouldn't control?
Forget it.
It would be easier (for a country) to issue an own controlled crypto, as Venezuela did with Pedro.
Do not forget, that National Banks (who issue currency) are private institutions.
Do you get the point ?  Wink

In Venezuela the Central Bank issues money, this is a State owned institution. It absolutely obeys the executive, including the absurd; which is why they are issuing all the money they want without any restrain and for that reason its currently the world's worst fiat, already passing one million percent yearly inflation.

The main problem with Petro is they are treating it the same way. It was pointless to make a digital currency and make the same mistakes they do to fiat. The problem is within their minds, complete disregard of economy principles, pretending they can fix anything by decree.

And this experience has let me believe that the only good currency is one where the government has zero control, such as bitcoin. And like i said before, there are countries that no longer have a national fiat, and are using the money from a third country, so its not like there aren't any governments out there that have zero control of the currency already...
newbie
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i think government will not accept crypto until there rules are fulfilled like tax , and transactions which should be in there control until this done govt will not accept crypto
sr. member
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In my opinion if the government combines their official currency with Bitcoin, that would be very bad for Bitcoin, because in the government there are many greedy people and there will be a lot of corruption within the country itself, not only that, maybe the government will make new regulations about the existence of Bitcoin and all Bitcoin users will definitely be taxed and their new regulatory rules.
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I already heard about some countries creating their own cryptocurrencies in the past, trying to convince their people to use them instead using the decentralized currencies, but they failed because most people still having faith only in the decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
I would hardly call Ethereum "Decentralised".
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This would be impossible on a truly decentralised currency.

sr. member
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I already heard about some countries creating their own cryptocurrencies in the past, trying to convince their people to use them instead using the decentralized currencies, but they failed because most people still having faith only in the decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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Indonesia,Malaysia both of those countries good started i think. I consider also india as a very prosperous future big crypto industry. But many obstacles have already come from governments and bank. Bank ignored to accept cryptocurrency.
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How do you think should countries link Bitcoin and other currencies to their major industries?
And how will it affect its rate?

I've heard that Malaysia started to do that already. Is it bad or good step?
As far as I understand, Bitcoin and another decentralized cryptocurrency cannot be tied to any sector of the economy of a particular state. There are many reasons for this and one of the main reasons is the high price volatility of cryptocurrency. Decentralized cryptocurrency exists by itself, it can not be associated with the economy of the state.
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I do not think it is necessary for authorities to be involved  else cryptocurrency will end up being controlled and centralized. Institutions have no business running money. The blockchain is doing this already... Nobody cares if they choose to Regulate the Merchants. Money should exist without interference.
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I am not sure whether any government will accept bitcoin, but with future development it has the potential to use bitcoin as a bond if tokens can be generated in the future in the bitcoin protocol, it is not an easy solution to have those development under one wing and there will be many obstacles in implementing those, but in future we can expect things like that, i never thought we will have an economic system like this ten years back, so anything is possible in the future.
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Actually there are many obstacles for our government to accept the system of two digital currencies and fiat currencies, of course it is against a country, even though the big countries have implemented it a lot, it does not mean that small countries in Asia landmarks can implement the system and with a standard which is likely to complicate the government with the pressure from banking, and they also know that bitcoin will turn them off in terms of the advantages of bitcoin superior, rather than banking ...
copper member
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it is very difficult to explain but not all countries are like Malaysia. the country's currency is heavily affected if they use another coin and especially when the government does not allow it. Some our countries is not the same policy and acredited maybe they more recognized crypto which can help thier countrymen to get up from life.
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as many countries are accepting crypto as payment for tax and donations - I guess governments will accept in time.
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How do you think should countries link Bitcoin and other currencies to their major industries?
And how will it affect its rate?

I've heard that Malaysia started to do that already. Is it bad or good step?

It is hard to tell. Bitcoin was created based on decentralization. But currently, the influence that centralized organization put on Bitcoin is so much. From the long run, it is not a good step.
legendary
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To accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on a governmental level would give some other dimension to them. That would mean they are formaly recgonized and regulated and thus introduced into economy system. That would give people more confidence and security to deal with cryptocurrencies. Still in practice that will not be so easy to performe and every government has its own attitude towards Bitcoin.
Some see only bad sides of government recognition, like taxation, but this you have now already because Bitcoin transactions are taxed in majority of countries. But we mustn't forget that formal adoption would bring many good sides and further progress for all cryptocurrencies and some obligations should be accepted, that is inevitable.
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Personally I don't want any governments to accept bitcoin which makes taxation for the crypto currencies as well and it may leads to huge taxes and the countries who were accepted having much taxes but it may help the people to trust more and will increase the adoption but personal benefits will get shrink if crypto was legal in our country.
newbie
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Accepting a crypto that wouldn't control?
Forget it.
It would be easier (for a country) to issue an own controlled crypto, as Venezuela did with Pedro.
Do not forget, that National Banks (who issue currency) are private institutions.
Do you get the point ?  Wink
legendary
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Government acceptance just make things so much easier for adoption, because people do not have to use "Black markets" to buy & sell bitcoins and to buy products and pay for services at online merchants. We do not have to have government acceptance, because Bitcoin can still be used borderless without their acceptance, but the majority of people want to use it without having to go that route.

A lot of us want to pay taxes and use Bitcoin legally.  Wink
legendary
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i don't know whether they "should" do it or not but it is something that is going to happen anyways. bitcoin is being adopted and that is a growing matter. sooner or later it will be considered an alternative form of payment in a lot of countries and most part of the world will see it that way. you can already see the multiple countries that have accepted bitcoin as a currency such as Japan.
i guess another way of asking this question is whether a country wants to do the opposite of what the rest of the world does or not?
legendary
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Bigger obstacle to a BTC peg  would be the extreme volatility of their national currency versus rest of the world. This would be bad for an third world country.

No i didn't mean pegging, just that it would be legal to pay and be paid in either. I believe Peru has had such a system with the PEN and USD for a couple of decades.

For example, assume you want to pay the equivalent of 100$, that day you calculate how much that is in local fiat OR bitcoin, and you could pay with either (or be paid with either). Of course bitcoin and the fiat would fluctuate separately, as the usd, gold or anything else does.
hero member
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Until now I don't think the government is ready to accept crypto into their major industry, there are a lot of considerations that need to review before accepting crypto, crypto got the potential to make the economic become better but it also can be dangerous to the economic, so the government really need to think and do a lot of research before adopting crypto
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