> you can request to get paid in crypto currency that doesn't actually do anything unless enough people are regularly transacting in a specific currency to start to give prices some inertia. as an individual you could just as easily get paid in usd and then immediately use that to buy crypto. > it might be worth double that in six months it might also be worth half as much. and in fact the two scenarios are about equally probable, because if there was a good reason to expect it to go up investors would already have bought more and thereby bid the price up to equilibrium. that's like the econ 101 understanding of the efficient market hypothesis.
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