Thread: What Weimar Germany Can Teach Us About The 2020's (Un-Ironically)
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So, 'Weimar Hyperinflation' is often a lazy metaphor for our current fiat regime...
HOWEVER, at the same time, there is a lot we can learn from studying what happened there...
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This thread is definitely not to suggest that the US/Europe/etc is going see such hyperinflation over the next 10 years...
However...
The 'extremes inform the means', as they say, and there are a lot of parallels between Weimar and the situation today.
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As a quick recap, 'Weimar Germany' essentially refers to the time in Germany between the end of WWI and the Third Reich, and is generally associated with the 1920's specifically.
Its most famous feature was the hyperinflation that occurred.
If my memory serves me right, we at one time had ETH, BNB, LUNA, SOL, ADA, DOT, and AVAX all in the top 10 tokens by market cap, with MATIC + NEAR not far behind. (poor Fantom never got the respect it deserved fr)
(cont.) Thread On Avoiding Contagion As A Degenerate Ape...
Here’s another thread on $USDT from the above-mentioned @otteroooo, back in May, who expounded in-depth on it, and gives a Tether collapse a 15% chance of happening in his estimation:
Thread: The Crypto Bulltard’s Guide To Potential Further Contagion
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So… the question on everyone’s minds right now is ‘Will the LUNA/Celsius/3AC stuff keep spreading?’ and... "Where might it spread?"
And that is the subject of this thread.
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The title of the thread refers to the fact this is NOT going to be a thread of speculative Schadenfreude. I genuinely feel bad for any/every individual or entity rekt by the current market conditions.
I’m also a true believer in on-chain smart contract-based systems being..
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... superior financial plumbing and (many years from now) replacing tradf structures.
Instead this thread is primarily me curatooring the best info I have found, to try to avoid exposure and also to better position to buy solid tokens amidst capitulation.
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I wish I had started listening to these a year ago... its really impossible to overstate just how good they are and how much valuable macro+defi info is discussed.