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Re:Short on Money, Cities Around the World Try Making Their Own by intotheabyss on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:18AM (#24119510)
You can create currencies that anyone can mint on Ethereum.
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Re:Short on Money, Cities Around the World Try Making Their Own by Legogris on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:43AM (#24119678)
That's the trivial part, but without the conditions I laid out above they're neither useful nor interesting, at least to me. FWIW Circles is implemented on Ethereum, if you didn't click the link.
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Re:Short on Money, Cities Around the World Try Making Their Own by beefield on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:50AM (#24119742)
Interesting. How is the value of that currency maintained so that it actually would be an usable currency?
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