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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by toyg on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:24PM (#26097518)
Afaik no developed-country government “backs” gold in any meaningful way. There are some reserves here and there, some historical, but they are not directly linked to liquidity. It’s just a market for a commodity that happens to be fairly practical to store value in. Whether governments will start using digital commodities in the same way, is really a political question. I agree that it might be a cornered market, but the fact that forks do seem to happen might well turn out to be the way out of that problem.
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by neatze on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:38PM (#26097614)
GOV/Central banks still use gold as reserves holding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve

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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by toyg on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:15AM (#26099375)
That’s not “backing”: nobody buys specifically to keep gold prices up or to legitimise the trade, they just use it as a commodity to make their creditworthiness believable and storing their value in a practical way. They are leveraging a pre-existing market, not backing it.

(As a side note, this role for gold is clearly legacy: look at how little gold China stores, compared to their overall reserves.)

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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by neatze on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:29AM (#26102493)
> their creditworthiness believable

this not backing ?

> look at how little gold China stores

by metric tones china is on 6th place in world, what do you mean ?

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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by CRConrad on Friday February 12, 2021 @05:44AM (#26112263)
>>[Governments use gold to make] their creditworthiness believable

> this not backing ?

It's the opposite. Originally you said "Gold Market is backed by Governments". This is governments being (partially) backed by gold.

>> look at how little gold China stores

> by metric tones china is on 6th place in world, what do you mean ?

Their economy is the largest in the world. How much smaller are their gold holdings, compared to those in first place?

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