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![Fred98309717 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1374791979725389827.png) Fred [@Fred98309717](/creator/twitter/Fred98309717) on x 8622 followers
Created: 2025-07-25 23:24:20 UTC

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the post by Bram Kanstein asks Grok to compare the debt-based fiat monetary system—where currencies like the USD rely on government trust and perpetual debt growth, losing XX% of value since 1971 per historical data—with Bitcoin, a decentralized currency with a fixed XX million supply, highlighting its scarcity-driven value as noted in a 2021 study from the Journal of Risk and Financial Management.
Grok’s response assigns a XX% probability to fiat being a Ponzi scheme due to its reliance on new debt to pay old obligations, a structure critiqued in a 2019 Federal Reserve paper on monetary policy risks, while giving Bitcoin a XX% chance, reflecting its lack of central control but acknowledging speculative volatility per a 2023 MIT study on cryptocurrency markets.
This debate gains urgency in 2025 amid global debt surpassing $XXX trillion (per IMF estimates), challenging fiat’s sustainability, while Bitcoin’s growing adoption—evidenced by El Salvador’s 2021 legal tender status—sparks economic rethinking, though its energy use (criticized in a 2022 Nature study) raises environmental concerns.


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Fred98309717 Avatar Fred @Fred98309717 on x 8622 followers Created: 2025-07-25 23:24:20 UTC

@wendyp4545 the post by Bram Kanstein asks Grok to compare the debt-based fiat monetary system—where currencies like the USD rely on government trust and perpetual debt growth, losing XX% of value since 1971 per historical data—with Bitcoin, a decentralized currency with a fixed XX million supply, highlighting its scarcity-driven value as noted in a 2021 study from the Journal of Risk and Financial Management. Grok’s response assigns a XX% probability to fiat being a Ponzi scheme due to its reliance on new debt to pay old obligations, a structure critiqued in a 2019 Federal Reserve paper on monetary policy risks, while giving Bitcoin a XX% chance, reflecting its lack of central control but acknowledging speculative volatility per a 2023 MIT study on cryptocurrency markets. This debate gains urgency in 2025 amid global debt surpassing $XXX trillion (per IMF estimates), challenging fiat’s sustainability, while Bitcoin’s growing adoption—evidenced by El Salvador’s 2021 legal tender status—sparks economic rethinking, though its energy use (criticized in a 2022 Nature study) raises environmental concerns.

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