Normally, you don't have to think about where money comes from to fund wars. If you did have to open your own pocket to fund a war, do you think you would be more careful about how the money was spent?
The currency used to fund wars generally comes from national debt, currency brought into existence through the magic of central banking. For a long time, we haven't had much choice in which currency we used, and that meant that every time we saved money or spent money, we were indirectly supporting the worst decisions of the governments which were supposed to represent us.
Today, we do have a choice. We don't have to tacitly support war. We can use Bitcoin, a decentralised currency which doesn't depend on imperialist governments, which, since its creation, has held its value far better than the almighty dollar, and is putting power back into the hands of the people who use it.
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It also means end of debt slavery, because in a deflationary currency people will be less tempted to borrow.
Does this not apply to other alternative currencies?
Generally, yes, but before cryptocurrency it was rather impractical to trade in other alternative currencies. There are ones like Mountain Hours, and there was e-gold, and there were Liberty Dollars. e-gold was stopped by the government, Liberty Dollars was as well. Mountain Hours as far as I know are still current, but these kinds of paper currency do need a lot of trust in the issuer, so it can be difficult to grow them. In a lot of places, such as in the UK, alternative currencies are legal, but never if they contain any precious metal - which basically cuts out the most attractive part of starting an alt currency.
But yes, generally what I said refers to cryptocurrencies as well. I originally posted this on Facebook, so it was more about branding, giving people something easily identifiable.
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Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.