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Re:Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Tr... by nokcha on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @04:11PM (#16539936)
>Legal tender is perhaps the most important corner stone of a modern nation state, if an entrepreneur can invent their own money and subsume the one issued by a government then you don't have a government.

Legal-tender laws already prevent non-government currencies from subsuming fiat. Nobody is obliged to accept Bitcoin as payment of a debt, but they are obliged to accept legal tender.

And besides that, there will always be demand for fiat at least for paying taxes.

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