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Re:Negative creep by eaandkw on Monday February 08, 2016 @08:22AM (#11057892)
I guess when all of the people and businesses start putting money in their mattresses the government will just ban paper money in general. Then there would not be anywhere to hide money.
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Re:Negative creep by repomies691 on Monday February 08, 2016 @08:29AM (#11057936)
I don't think it will be ever very easy for goverments to ban owning physical, valuable things. If they don't issue their own paper currency, someone else will.

I think this fantasy some people have of banning paper currencies pretty well points just out that the people who propose the banning, have no idea how the world works.

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Re:Negative creep by mkiwala on Monday February 08, 2016 @08:24AM (#11057903)
Except for cryptocurrency.
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Re:Negative creep by aembleton on Monday February 08, 2016 @09:10AM (#11058137)
Then you could just stash USD or some other currency that has paper.
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Re:Negative creep by pif on Monday February 08, 2016 @08:24AM (#11057907)
> Then there would not be anywhere to hide money.

Would you miss it?

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