It's supported and influenced by the USA in the sense that if you can't ever turn it into dollars it becomes much less interesting.

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nuancebydefault 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Anything anyone wants to spend money on, can be converted into dollars. The currency has no tell in what it is used for.

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wrs 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The hypothetical was that the US "bans" bitcoin, presumably meaning it becomes illegal for US financial institutions (or US-dependent ones, which is nearly all of them) to convert bitcoin to dollars. Somebody else might give you dollars for bitcoin, but then it becomes their problem. As the saying goes, "you can't eat bitcoin".

	▲	LorenPechtel 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's not like the Dollar is the only worthwhile currency. Convert it into Euros. Or Yen. Or Yuan.