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No, that's a consequence of fungibility in the context of some privacy uses, not its definition. The definition of fungible items is that you can mix them witho
by pyrale 5y ago
No, that's a consequence of fungibility in the context of some privacy uses, not its definition. The definition of fungible items is that you can mix them without altering their properties.
Fungible items can be used as a commodity, for instance: if two people buy cereals, they may use the same silo to spare on warehousing costs.
Fungibility is always true within a limited context, though. Examples of failed fungibility include Amazon comingling genuine products with fakes, or, to draw from the previous example, cereals from different areas will likely have different gluten or humidity rates, and while producers from an area may share a silo, the buyer may keep the same cereal from different geographic areas separated. Another example is electricity, with power being fungible in terms of who puts it in, but absolutely not when it comes to when power is provided.
- zozbot234 5y ago> Amazon comingling genuine products with fakes That's a pretty good example of introducing artificial fungibility "to spare on warehousing costs". It goes without saying that this also leads to risk for customers; there's no way of knowing if an order for some given SKU will be fulfilled by a genuine product or a fake. It's nonetheless true that you can arbitrarily mix orders without changing their fulfillment properties, so a kind of fungibility is indeed present.