Will crypto-currencies make the world a better place? – Part 1

It’s an understatement even to think that crypto-currencies have taken over the world by storm and bitcoin leads the pack. It may have pushed authorities, governments and general public to the extremes of shocks and surprises. The meaning of currency and how they are valued is defied.

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The unimaginable success is having the basic human’s instinct for freedom as engine and greed as the accelerator. The governments and authorities with not so people friendly policies have added fuel and now trying to grasp something that’s nearly impossible to be regulated. A super-efficient parallel world economy has been born and it is here to stay.

The prevailing system is based on the concept of future money which increased the ‘basic’ needs of humans. Almost every country on the world map is on debt resulting in future citizen to be born with debt. To whom does everyone owe?

In the name of development, natural ecosystems are already being destroyed at a rapid pace. Nature is plundered for development as per accepted system with very little qualms. In most cases, development increases debt and inducts more future money into the system. Now with crypto-currencies, unlimited money moves into parallel economy. Crypto-currencies provide simpler mechanism to hoard, the so called wealth, creating more rush in creating future money. Since, for majority of humans, the easiest way to create something out of nothing is by destroying natural resources, the destruction will happen faster.

It may be possible that crypto-currencies may be more useful if it’s purely used as currency for real world transaction but eventually this will result in manipulation of few ‘anonymous’ due to the short-term mentality of humans. More adoption of these currencies will result in more manipulation.

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We destroy nature for money but in the same life we pay money to experience true nature at some point of time. Many of us think we have to save money for future generations but for how many does it occur that the natural resources are also for future generations?

Somewhere we have forgotten we are only travelers in this life and we are not here to stay until eternity.

Note: I neither claim to be an economist nor a financial expert. These are just thoughts, purely personal, from a nature lover’s perspective.

 

5 thoughts on “Will crypto-currencies make the world a better place? – Part 1

  1. pallavi December 21, 2017 / 7:08 am

    Superb. Expressed beautifully.

  2. pallavi December 21, 2017 / 7:09 am

    now it’s more structured…. he should write more often

  3. Sunith December 21, 2017 / 7:59 am

    Well written

  4. Dharmesh December 23, 2017 / 9:52 am

    Nice article zookie.. It’s not just crypto currencies.. Everything created by humans, right from the time our back bones straightened up and we evolved as the most powerful species in this world, and started creating with our hands than walking and running, were all targeted towards destroying nature.. In simple words, there’s just nature and culture and I personally chose to be natural than cultural long ago..

  5. arun December 24, 2017 / 10:52 am

    Nice Article Zookk natural resources are also our saving for future generations, This is one of the best phrase I have come across..

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