The Dollar's Cheap Print & The Crypto Alternative
It costs just $78 for the U.S. to print 1kg of $100 bills (face value: $100,000). This profit, seigniorage, reveals the dollar's core weaknesses:
1. Inflation Engine: Unlimited printing erodes your savings silently, a permanent > tax.
2. Central Control: A single authority can freeze assets or devalue currency at will.
3. Costly Trust: Global faith in the dollar requires trillion-dollar military & diplomatic machinery.
Enter Crypto:
₿itcoin makes 'printing' new coins prohibitively expensive and finite. Ethereum and others enable decentralized finance (DeFi) > transparent systems without central gatekeepers.
Your self-custodied crypto can't be frozen.
The dollar is efficient control. Crypto is sovereign, programmable, scarcer money. The real cost isn't production; it's who controls the press.
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