Another way, the establishment now faces a non-zero (perhaps even non-trivial) chance of a “hyperbitcoinization” event—a period of a few years when the public adopts cryptocurrencies and abandons fiat currencies en masse (just as they previously embraced digital photos, music, books, news, etc. en masse), leading to incredible purchasing power gains in the former and painful purchasing power losses in the latter.

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