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> Physical currency is an absolutely vital component of a stable economy. Its very lack of instantaneous fluidity (it relative inconvenience) means it acts like
by aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
> Physical currency is an absolutely vital component of a stable economy. Its very lack of instantaneous fluidity (it relative inconvenience) means it acts like a capacitor to stabilise markets if you can manage circulation and interest. Moreover, governments have a strict monopoly on that, and physical currencies can take on many new guises with modern cash technology. Abandoning that would be suicide.
Governments are made of individual actors, in the US these are often buying cryptocurrency. Their friends have invested in and built cryptocurrency companies. They hold investments in cryptocurrency companies.
Cryptocurrency IS the capacitor you're talking about, the policy of the US is showing this more weekly.
- catlifeonmars 4y agoCurious, do “modern” cryptocurrencies (aka not bitcoin) still tightly couple money creation and transactions? I feel like this would be a blocker to being able to use a cryptocurrency as an automated economic manager directly (although perhaps this could be mitigated by using derivative currencies backed by the primary cryptocurrency).