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Re:ZCash Will Be a Truly Anonymous Blockchain-Based Currency by asidiali on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @09:20PM (#12793202)
A currency from 2016, maybe. Not on the greater scale of things. I'd argue the dollar has only recently hit maturity in the past 50 years, being written into law in the 1790s [1]. The yuan has been around for over 2,000 years [2].

Currencies take time for sure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar?wprov=sfl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_yuan?wprov=sfla1

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