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Re:Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018) by SuoDuanDao on Friday March 06, 2020 @07:44AM (#22503127)
If it's legal to own bitcoin or gold, what good does eliminating cash do?
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Re:Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018) by beefield on Friday March 06, 2020 @09:03AM (#22503597)
Central banks do not guarantee purchasing power of gold or bitcoin.

(A note, The questions I made above are not meant to be snarky. Those are the kind of questions I struggled literally for months when I tried to get my head around negative rates and whether they make sense or not.)

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Re:Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018) by SuoDuanDao on Saturday March 07, 2020 @07:58AM (#22511334)
How do they guarantee the purchasing power of legal tender? Serious question, I thought the health of the economy and the need to pay taxes was all that did that.
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