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Bitcoin 101 with Linda Hill (WiM114)

The "What is Money?" Show

CHAPTER

The Thing That Best Functions Is Money

Gold is a most divisible, durable, recognizable, portable asset in history that is the hardest to produce. Why silver? Silver functioned successfully alongside gold for thousands of years because we had not abstracted d into a bank note yet. Once you abstract them into paper currency, you've gathered all those properties of money under a gold standard,. Because now i have gold that's real portable, real divisible, because it's just paper backed by gold.

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