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Re:The digital pound: A new form of money for households and... by throwaway290 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:00PM (#34710969)
> Did the Enron scandal undermine our understanding of steam turbines?

If you know anything about it, you probably are aware it's accounting related rather than technology related.

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Re:The digital pound: A new form of money for households and... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:04PM (#34711026)
> it's accounting related rather than technology related

Precisely. The accounting scandal has as much to do with the underlying technology as the Libor scandal does with our understanding of the mechanics of banking. Nobody informed walked away from the Libor scandal rethinking the fundamentals of banking in the same way chickens didn’t get bioengineered in response to chicken Libor.

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