[Musing Q&A] If cryptocurrency will ever be universally implemented, what could its impact be in the global economy?

in #cryptocurrency6 years ago (edited)


This is a million dollar question that no one seems to be interested in answering. Then allow me to present what I see cryptos will do to our economy in near future. And please keep an open mind as I am no financial advisor or crypto guru. What I am going to is abbreviate just what I learned from my ventures with cryptos.

Once there were beans that controlled the world. If you didn't know beans were once used as money. Then came coins. They were shiny, weren't they? Then came the paper money revolution.

Did you notice something? How the next one always takes the place of the previous ones? Yes. They all followed the same path. And now its cryptocurrencies turn.

As I conducted my research online about how cryptos are affecting the economy now and will affect in the next decade all the articles repeated 3 effects again and again. Let me describe what will happen if cryptos become globalized.

1. The Dollar Shift...

Imagine the world's economy as a spider web. Now follow the threads to the middle and you will find dollars sitting there. Its an unspoken taboo for us normal individuals to talk about how dollars are controlling all the other adverse markets shining a light on the global economy. Oil, clothing gold and whatnot. Many others tried to challenge dollars authority but none succeeded until bitcoin came along. It showed the possibility of how cryptos can shift this centralized dollar polarization. In this year experts seem to think the crypto market will reach over 800 billion dollars. That like hundred countries in lowest of the lists GDP combined for five years. It is only been a decade and cryptos has come this far. Everyday 5 or 6 new icos come to life. And the dollar centralization coming to a halt is only a matter of time

2. The Middleman...

Imagine a world where you don't need to pay for every transaction you do. You don't have to pay to withdraw money or to deposit money. And now open your eyes. Yes. This that world now. Now you don't need to pay money to hold your money. Online wallets cut the middleman out like they were surgeons cutting out a tumor. And the transaction fees came down to almost zero.

3. The Crowdfunding Approach...

Now in the days of cryptos, you don't need to ask for loans from banks. You have a business that you want to take online, an idea or a project or whatever you think can bring value to the society you can accomplish by just Offering ICOs. Now in this world ideas, concepts are tokenized.

I am sure there is much other in-depth analysis of how cryptos are affecting the economy and their causation. But those are conversations for future.

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I have little knowledge on cryptocurrency but any major currency that are accepted by the public as an alternative to the existing currency will have impact to the economy for sure. However, the extend of it will depends on the percentage of people use it as an alternative afterall.
Currently, still a very small percentage of merchants accept cryptocurrency as an alternative to currency for purchases. It is a time factor I supposed to show its impact to the economy

This is my point of view about cryptocurrency
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Crypto will not replace fiat and that I am sure of. No way governments of the world will allow this to happen. But it can and will likely become a disruptive factor in the economies of the world. The ability to directly effect someone's life around the globe has never been easier. When you can send a fraction of a btc and help someone in a country like venezuala feed their family for a week or buy some Steem that was donated from many people here and send fiat (it all comes back to that) to someone in Mexico to cover medical expenses at the drop of a hat things have changed. These people both would have been without options previously yet in today's world were able to solve their problem fairly quickly. These are both real world situations where I personally (@thedarkhorse) have helped people via crypto which I never would have know before the world of crypto and steemit. This truly disrupts the power structure of the world when someone thousands of miles away in another country can instantly help another person.

I didnt literally mean that crypto will replace fiat.. It is unlikely that crypto will just swap it out.. What i meant was for example take gold, it was here before fiat but they both are here till now and they are coexisting trading units. Same goes for crypto and fiat that they will co exist but fiat will become a bit dependent on crypto.

And unfortunately what you seem to have experienced about venezuala or mexico is also true for us, where i live, in Bangladesh. Believe me when i say this, 3 steem at its current price will feed a family of four for a day.. But what crypto can do and doing isnt as far reaching here as it can be till now. I strongly believe in the next few years it is going to change.

And thank you for taking the time to read what i wrote. Didnt get feedbacks like this before. To me it really means a lot.

Well if 3 steem feeds a family that might help a little, best I can do is 100%.

Crypto will change a lot of things in my opinion. Think we both see it the same way. It actually can do more harm to gold and silver then fiat as those are just stores of value like crypto is treated by most people.

That is true.. But i hope to live long enough so that i can witness that day when cryptos will drive worlds economy and be able to say that "once i was among the pioneers of crypto"😁😁

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Thanks for this answer:) I have lots of business ideas and one day I might just take the plunge and see if it can be done with crypto investments instead of the normal route.

Very interesting topic. I think we are closer than many people think... and mainly because of failing governments like in Venezuela and Nigeria.

At this point, Venezuelans and Nigerians are better off exchanging their salaries for Crypto than holding their own failed National Currency.

And that fact alone, might speed up the global adoption of Crypto Currencies.

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Thanks for sharing your thought @zayedsakib 😉 found your post through @sherbanu in the pay it forward contest this week.

We gonna need mega server and extra power computer to be able to use that cryptocurrency in the future for daily life and it's gonna be tough for those who has no acces. But still.. it's interesting.

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