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A comment on Mozilla's call for cryptocurrency donations angers founder. Parent comment

Re:Mozilla's call for cryptocurrency donations angers founder by rasengan on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:29AM (#29820487)
How is fiat an alternative to cryptocurrency? Fiat is printed without transparency [1] whereas cryptocurrency is not for example. How are these the same?

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1 has been discontinued.

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Re:Mozilla's call for cryptocurrency donations angers founder by Jasper_ on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:37AM (#29820530)
It was replaced with https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL . The only change is that the M1SL metric now includes savings deposits, whereas the old M1 metric did not. This was a change that was in the works for months.
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