52 sats \ 12 replies \ @grayruby 11 Aug \ on: Should the US Government Acquire a Bitcoin Reserve? • Listen on Fountain bitcoin
They probably should but I hope they don't.
I say they shouldn't, but probably will.
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I don't have a strong opinion about this. I was just being needlessly contrarian.
I do think there are real risks to letting them start investing in speculative assets. That's not about Bitcoin, but there's a slippery slope in that direction.
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I would rather they sold it. I want people to have Bitcoin and the State to become insolvent.
From a public finance standpoint, it probably does make sense for them to add Bitcoin to the other monetary assets that they hold as reserves.
All it takes is one bear market and there will be political pressure to abandon the bitcoin reserve project
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A big part of Bob's case is that there are real risks in holding high volatility assets if you have strong liquidity needs, even if they have a very high expected return.
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Governments have high liquidity and low time preferences. In theory they should plan for the long term but they have daily payroll and expenses.
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Politicians have very high time preference, though, since they have to deal with election cycles.
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I meant high time preference!
You are right.
Politicians and governments think and act short term because of elections and the media
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