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I think the biggest cost to sustaining fiat is the power of the sovereign that backs it up. To a good extend, you have to also account for the military that sec

I think the biggest cost to sustaining fiat is the power of the sovereign that backs it up. To a good extend, you have to also account for the military that secures the borders as that which also supports the currency.

JumpCrisscross 9y ago
> the biggest cost to sustaining fiat is the power of the sovereign that backs it up That government and military also safeguards a lot of the economy any financial system, traditional or crypto currency, needs to drive it. In any case, sovereign-less free banking happened [1]. It was replaced for reasons of efficiency. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking
kamaal 9y ago
That will be true for cryptocurrencies too. What special loyalty does some thing like bitcoin command? The day bitcoin has its top 1% people(By many a definition they are already there) you will need a military to force it on the people, else they can start their own currency turning the value of existing cryptocurrencies to 0.