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Re:Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digit... by laurencerowe on Monday April 19, 2021 @10:04PM (#26869953)
Money is just a unit of account. But without enough of it the system gums up and people are left unemployed. We moved on from the gold standard for good reason.
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Re:Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digit... by ObserverNeutral on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:43AM (#26872569)
there is no proof of this

also let the dollar be infinitly divisible up to the 10th decimal and then let's talk about the system clogging up

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