> if there is a chance to lose access to your crypto forever that can happen if: - you forget your secret key - its cryptography is broken so that it becomes cheaper to calculate the secret key than whatever value it stores - the world collectively decides not to keep the network up and running > and so it is worthless by definition? no, of course not. it's also possible that the us dollar becomes worthless through hyperinflation in the future, but that doesn't change the fact that today you can use it to buy things - like gold.  the tether crypto is interesting in that is backed by spurious assets claimed to be owned by some off-shore company. yet, it maintains its peg near $1 nearly 100% of the time. why? because the market prices the risk of it collapsing at a given moment at less than one cent.
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