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#520: Speculative Attack: Ten Years Later with Pierre Rochard & Allen Farrington

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

CHAPTER

Understanding Bitcoin as Money, Speculative Attacks, and Borrowing Against Bitcoin

The chapter delves into the implications of Bitcoin potentially replacing traditional money and its use in over-collateralized loans, leading to a speculative attack on fiat currency systems. It also emphasizes the growing accessibility and infrastructure for borrowing against Bitcoin to enable spending of fiat currencies.

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