fiat currency Concepts

Endless Money: The Moral Hazards of Socialism

by William Baker and Addison Wiggin · 2 Nov 2009 · 444pp · 151,136 words

But my view departs slightly from these greats by incorporating some pragmatism and recognizing some moral obligation to undo the massive distortion that operating a fiat currency system and a central bank has caused. I respectfully apologize to all who possess greater knowledge of economics. My grounding comes only from the battlefield

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are prone to hubris and error. It is not a giant leap then to question the wisdom of current academic orthodoxy surrounding central banking and fiat currency, for these interrelated institutions are most certainly constructs of man. The experience of analyzing companies and industries teaches one to be open minded, and

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of debt capital and hedge this through the use of derivatives, and by minimizing ordinary income. They are the ultimate xviii INTRODUCTION beneficiaries of the fiat currency system, because otherwise asset inflation through currency dilution would not route profits through this backdoor. Chapter 7 documents the political influence wielded by these elites

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reluctant concern over creeping socialism is, and how incognizant everyone from the least to the most educated are concerning the moral hazards of operating a fiat currency in conjunction with a state that is hell-bent on fiscal Introduction xxi expansion and providing entitlements. Although we have veered far off the course

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the background, like the Coriolis force giving birth to a tropical storm which then builds into a hurricane. Save for the 1970s, the system of fiat currency has been spectacularly successful: Recessions have been tame and short, while the cost has been tolerable inflation during expansions. Ironically, tapping into the people’s

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The Rise and Fall of Hard Money 37 National Banking Acts of 1863, 1864, and 1865, which wiped out state banking and established a nationwide fiat currency. Although central banking would not gain permanence until 1913 (after two failed enterprises), these reforms paved the way for it by concentrating influence in the

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soon, perhaps the simple mathematics of compounding debt will force a reexamination. America’s Beginning: Paper, Silver, and Gold Because finance has been predicated upon fiat currency for roughly the last half century or more (depending upon the technical definition), even veteran institutional money managers are at best vaguely aware that 42

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currency traded at a 30 percent discount to specie, and by 1748 the depreciation was tenfold. The 1740s saw nearly every other colony also institute fiat currency. These notes, which were all denominated in English pounds, were usable across colonial borders. Thus Rhode Island caught on to the benefit of outdoing

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was keen to resist unlimited expansion of the money supply that had overtaken other colonial land and specie banks. To Franklin’s credit, Pennsylvania’s fiat currency was the least inflated of all the colonies’ at just 80 percent over par.7 Under Franklin’s persuasion, the Pennsylvania colony operated an

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When faced with unexpected high budget outlays, usually caused by large-scale wars, governments face a choice of either raising taxes or issuing debt. With fiat currency, the latter option tends to avoid revolutions or plebiscites. After independence, in the state of Massachusetts, the collection of the The Rise and Fall

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the Convention of 1787. Colonial American history was characterized by money supply expansion through outright printing, interspersed by usage of specie. The American embrace of fiat currency benefitted colonial governments, since its first usage was to finance public obligations, after which it would be circulated. It added wealth to the colonies and

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debt securities. However, this modern innovation uses federal lending and guarantees, which ultimately rely upon taxation or the monetization of government debt with newly issued fiat currency. Consequently, the final straw will rest upon either taxpayers or savers. The depression of 1839-1843 liquidated over a third of the money supply, causing

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faith in government obligations has waned, especially in the context of inflation, its value was partially restored, because citizens saw it as an alternative to fiat currency. However, it held up well through much of the 2008 panic, but its strength then was correlated with fears of debasement when monetary authorities discussed

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few doomsayers, libertarians, and boldly curious economists or money managers, most observers in our time have little more than a theoretical conception of why a fiat currency system could come under stress, and whether the current crisis might be handled effectively or deepen to the point that the political demand for an

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basket of currencies including the ruble and the yuan. Such rumination again reflects complete misunderstanding of the credit crisis, for it would substitute one weak fiat currency with others that have experienced explosive money supply expansion based upon debt proliferation possible only in a fractional reserve banking order. There is a silver

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also, discounts looming entitlement liabilities through sleight-of-hand CPI measurement, and negates the theism of rewarding prudent institutions and citizens. To move away from fiat currency is to reject socialism. Like the mighty Mississippi River, which periodically through nature’s wrath breaks free of government’s dykes and levies, once again

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investments with an independent perspective. While these financial hazards have gained attention, the largest by far gets no recognition at all. The operation of a fiat currency encourages the accumulation of debt, which in turn pumps up the value of assets including stocks. After generations so much can be amassed that a

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to gold is always a possibility. In fact it is likely whenever pyramiding of national currencies or bank loans is uncomfortably high. The danger of fiat currency is invisible to the public, professional investors, and political commentators, who are oblivious of its mechanism. Thought to be a “normal” element of finance

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health care. Thus, in addition to spreading socialism through changing the tax code, the new administration will be able to utilize the interlocking system of fiat currency and fiscal spending to redistribute far more wealth quickly than ever was collected and redirected by the IRS. Commentators on Wall Street greeted the first

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With these moral hazards established, next the discussion will turn to the inherent conflict within democracy. The chapter ends by returning to the theme of fiat currency’s destructive tendency, and how the leading conservative commentators of our time have yet to even embrace the concept. Interestingly, the most trenchant analysis of

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(Penguin Group, 2008), or articles such as Simon Johnson’s “The Quiet Coup” (The Atlantic, May 2009). Yet they also blissfully ignore the role of fiat currency, forsaking true Democratic Party roots planted by Andrew Jackson, and instead they advocate the case for ever more onerous regulation. They begin history with Reagan

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of the meltdown. Forced to Accept Risk Even before the financial crisis of 2008 arose, there were signs that the operation of a centrally managed fiat currency system was creating stress. Consider the dilemma of retirement. On one hand, many might not have saved much, because throughout life government had stepped

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and the Treasury in this cycle will send a clear message that reckless financial institutions and borrowers alike will never have cause to avoid risk. Fiat Currency—Not Yet a Mainstream Conservative Issue Unfortunately, the conservative community is largely unaware that the extraordinary debasement of our currency through pyramiding credit upon a

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decades, providing evidence-based thinkers with new data with which they can extrapolate the future. The historical trend of cruising forward painlessly under a managed fiat currency system would be decisively broken. At some point those who are both conservatives and “the smartest guys in the room” are likely to notice a

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fiscal policy is clouded by the mist of soft recessions and the slow debasement of capital by the inadequately restrained credit that is possible with fiat currency. Some liberal political observers use evidence of pricked bubbles as fodder for Bush-hating rhetoric and to promote the change Obama has promised. But

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party.This part of the book, “Faux Class Warfare,” takes an alternative perspective to this classic debate by making the case that the centrally managed fiat currency system has interacted with a tax code that confiscates earned income rather than wealth, potentially producing a knockout punch to entrepreneurship, our society, and our

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restrict lending and require marks-to-market to occur daily. Thus, the subsidization of commercial real estate through the interaction of tax policy and a fiat currency system shifts income out of the ordinary fully taxed bucket into the perpetually deferred category. Usually, commercial property owners choose to extract cash by rolling

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that inflation, leverage, and derivatives inevitably produce. Only a flat tax on wealth itself could fairly bridge this divide. Sadly, a century of centrally managed fiat currency and progressive taxation of income has incubated a pernicious sentiment of class warfare that has pitted the lowest half of society against the upper-middle

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ago when the government restructured the agencies to promote their growth. Citizens know that owning real estate in an environment when credit expansion under a fiat currency has devalued the purchasing power of the dollar by over 60 percent since 1980 has made real estate an enticing investment, particularly if it

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heirs pennies on the dollar, with their estates purchased at fire-sale prices to buttress the investment portfolio of the Warren Buffetts of this world. Fiat currency, like the repeatedly clipped denarius or the dilutively minted anoninianus, has made a penny a quickly browning token no longer worth bending over for, even

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is linked to the multigenerational financial excess coming to a head in the meltdown that began in 2008. The common theme is deferral of consequences. Fiat currency and even the gold-exchange standard departed from classical gold systems that provided our nation’s most remarkable growth and prosperity by allowing financial actors

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modern technocratic state. It has been accompanied by socialist governmental systems in most of the developed world, including the United States, and an era of fiat currency. C.S. Lewis, the great Christian thinker, devoted considerable time to reading old texts, quipping that this provided his mind with “the clean sea

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now, or whether it could be forestalled by hyperinflation. Chapter 17 reveals two elephants in the room that are responsible for the crisis: socialism and fiat currency. By now the reader is intimately familiar with the interaction of the two and their economic impact. Rather than rehash that, their influence is

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that even politicians and businessmen still have no familiarity with the ignominious record of debt M 333 334 ENDLESS MONEY imbalances capable under centrally managed fiat currency systems, but they should certainly know better. Chapter 18 shows what the world would look like if gold were to replace the mountain of debt

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it not heartening to politicians to seize and distribute today’s wealth and promise more in future obligations knowing that erosion of the value of fiat currency will reduce the burden of government debt incurred? Is not their public debt simply a scorecard representing the cumulative transfer of wealth mostly driven

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itself with the pattern of socialism: entitlements, bloated and intrusive government, and punitive taxation exclusively directed at the top brackets. Its vector of transmission is fiat currency. Our culture leaves the body politic and the investment community with no antibodies to recognize this threat. In earlier eras such as the 1980s, the

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recounted the monetary history of the United States, which clearly shows a pendulum-like tendency of swinging between hard money and fiat currency, but transitions can take decades. During times of fiat currency use, anyone who prophesied that a complete collapse would usher in hard money would have been dismissed by the experts of

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nearly unquantifiable counterparty risk. They did so because government stepped in to insure deposits, and it preempted the role of safekeeping. The elastic nature of fiat currency intervention at the bottom of economic cycles transmitted a message that systemic risk did not exist any longer. Yet at exactly this moment, government became

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Mitchell, Mark, 140 Mitchener, Kris, 108–109 Mondale, Walter, 186 Monetary velocity, 82. See also Flat-Earth economics Moral hazard: bailouts, 138–146 fiat currency, 155–161 (see also Fiat currency) forced acceptance of risk, 150–155 overview, 135–138 policy solutions, 371–379 socialist incentive, 146–150 See also Credit Crisis of 2008

The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance

by Eswar S. Prasad · 27 Sep 2021 · 661pp · 185,701 words

to conduct transactions without having to use coins made of bronze or other metals, which were cumbersome to carry and limited in supply. When unbacked fiat currency first came into circulation in China in the thirteenth century, it enabled commerce to flow freely by unshackling money from any constraints imposed by stocks

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payment-processing system for banks), xRapid (which enables financial institutions to minimize liquidity costs while using the native cryptocurrency XRP as a bridge from one fiat currency to another), and xVia (which enables businesses to send payments via RippleNet). These elements enable financial institutions to easily exchange information on fees, foreign exchange

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authority. The absolute cap on the total number of bitcoins has an important implication for enthusiasts who view this cryptocurrency as a viable alternative to fiat currencies such as the dollar. They see the limit as an attractive feature that ensures Bitcoin’s reliability as a store of value that is invulnerable

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to debasement through an increase in supply. The cap would have some negative implications, however, if Bitcoin enthusiasts’ dreams of its rivaling fiat currencies were to come true. The supply cap means that Bitcoin is intrinsically deflationary. Consider an economy that used only Bitcoin as a currency. What would

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investments, thereby driving demand and prices down further, setting off a downward economic spiral. Fortunately, there is no risk that cryptocurrencies are about to displace fiat currencies, but more on that later. Storing and Sharing Information The transparency that makes Bitcoin work requires that all transactions using the cryptocurrency be stored digitally

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better in practice than in theory. As will be discussed in Chapter 5, the values of some newer cryptocurrencies are backed by reserves of a fiat currency or linked to the prices of specific commodities. Such cryptocurrencies are also in effect just payment systems that do not constitute the creation of new

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roles in creating a reliable medium of exchange—the instability of the cryptocurrency’s value relative to the unit of account, which is typically a fiat currency. Stablecoins With many players in the cryptocurrency game recognizing that a viable medium of exchange needs stable value more than absolute anonymity or a fully

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are handled by the issuer of the currency or an authorized party. Stablecoins can be backed by fiat currencies or by assets such as gold and other commodities. There are even stablecoins backed by reserves of prominent cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether, although

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the US dollar (or, in its other incarnations, at par with other major currencies). Thus, this cryptocurrency’s price is permanently tethered to the fiat currency. Conceptually, the fiat currency on reserve gets transformed into a token that can be transacted on the platform, called Omni, used by this cryptocurrency. Tether’s business model

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(FSS)—to conduct an investigation of its reported bank balances. The report, which Tether released publicly in June 2018, concluded that Tether indeed held the fiat currency balance it claimed to hold. But the report also cautioned that it was not a true audit because FSS was not an accounting firm: “The

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equivalents, and money market funds in the underlying currencies. For new Libra coins to be created, there must be an equivalent purchase of Libra for fiat currency and transfer of that fiat to the reserve. The association automatically mints new coins when demand increases and destroys them when demand contracts. Perils and

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inflation into the system or debasing the currency.” The revised white paper adds soothingly that the Libra network’s intention entails “extending the functionality of fiat currencies, which are appropriately under the governance and control of central banks.” The issuance of Libra will not create new money in the traditional sense and

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whether the issuance of Diem coins will be constrained in the future if the cryptocurrency does gain traction, thereby making it a competitor to existing fiat currencies. The project is in many ways reminiscent of internet.org, a Facebook-led initiative launched in 2013 with the goal of “bringing internet access and

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a reserve of hard currency assets, could be viewed as more trustworthy and stable in value and would likely achieve wider international acceptance than the fiat currencies of many EMEs and developing countries whose central banks suffer from lack of credibility. Another concern is that Diem could also end up creating new

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company based in California, claims to have processed $400 million in transactions from 2016 through early 2020. The proliferation of cryptocurrencies and their relationship to fiat currencies, whether physical or digital, is likely ultimately to hinge on how effectively each currency delivers on its intended functions. In this sense, by parceling out

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prevented them from adjusting their money supplies in response to changing economic circumstances. This situation became untenable, and the Bretton Woods system broke down. Unbacked fiat currency is now the norm around the world, with major economies, for the most part, allowing their currencies to float freely in value against each other

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the private payment infrastructure. The third option (official cryptocurrency) is quirkier, as it would represent money that is not simply the digital equivalent of existing fiat currency. But, as we will see in Chapter 7, this concept turns out not to be too odd for certain desperate governments. Motivations for Issuing a

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first to make progress toward a CBDC. In 2014, the PBC set up a special research group to look into the possibility of a digital fiat currency. In 2017, this group was expanded and formalized into the Digital Currency Research Institute, with the objective of conducting research and technical trials for a

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and as transactions between currency pairs that do not involve the dollar become cheaper and easier to execute. But the dollar’s dominance among global fiat currencies will remain unchallenged, especially because other major currencies could see even greater erosions in their prominence as mediums of exchange and as safe havens. CHAPTER

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to greater monetary independence or make up for the dysfunctionality of monetary policy and other government policies. Merely switching to a digital version of a fiat currency with no changes in underlying policies will scarcely increase that currency’s traction as a form of payment and store of value. A CBDC, if

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balance in favor of fiat currency. Now the pendulum is swinging back, but only partially. Cryptocurrencies and the technological advances they represent will make payment systems more efficient, but decentralized unbacked

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on the correlations of cryptocurrency prices, see Aslanidis, Bariviera, and Martínez-Ibañez (2019). The Tether white paper, issued in June 2016, is available at “Tether: Fiat Currencies on the Bitcoin Blockchain,” Tether, https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/TetherWhitePaper.pdf. The rebranding of Realcoin as Tether is described in Pete

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intermediaries curtailed by, 76–77; financial market involvement of, 359–360; Fintech risks tempered by, 57, 102–103; paper currency backed by, 4 (see also fiat currencies); regulations of (see regulations); taxation by (see taxes) Greece, 214–215, 216, 292, 294–295 Guatemala, 347 hacking, 9, 129, 134–135, 137, 153, 158

The New Depression: The Breakdown of the Paper Money Economy

by Richard Duncan · 2 Apr 2012 · 248pp · 57,419 words

would also cause devastatingly high rates of interest. Finally, it would completely destroy the value of the dollar and the value of all the other fiat currencies affected by hyperinflation. Although hyperinflation would not be a solution, if the past is any guide, politicians would resort to it as a desperate expedient

Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond

by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar · 19 Oct 2017 · 416pp · 106,532 words

, currencies were a solution to ease the impreciseness of barter trade, and for centuries metal coins with material value served as the currencies of choice. Fiat currency was an innovation beyond metal coins, as it was much easier to transport, but the entirety of its value relied upon the government’s stamp

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also used trusted gateways as endpoints for users, and these gateways could take deposits and redeem debts in all kinds of asset pairs, including traditional fiat currency. This built off Fugger’s original chains of trust but on a global multi-asset scale. Routing a transaction through Ripple’s network was like

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government issued bonds and other assets to inject cash into the economy. Central bank activity can lead to drastic increases in the supply of a fiat currency, as we have seen in the U.S. dollar. Figure 8.1 shows a comparison of the supply schedules of bitcoin, the U.S. dollar

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a much more limited number of exchanges (most activity was at Mt. Gox). Currency pair diversity was not nearly as robust either, both through different fiat currencies or other cryptoassets. In 2017, bitcoin was able to recover quickly because market liquidity, exchange diversity, and trading pair optionality came through in spades. As

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too few currencies and exchanges early in its young life, we can now follow the trading pair diversity of other cryptoassets, especially with regard to fiat currency pairs. Fiat currency pairs are particularly important for cryptoassets because they require significant integration with preexisting financial infrastructures. Due to high levels of required compliance, only a

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small number of cryptoasset exchanges offer the capability to accept fiat currency or connect to investors’ bank accounts. These exchanges, such as Bitstamp, GDAX, itBit, Gemini, Kraken, and a few others, are hesitant to provide access to

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opportunity that exists for bitcoin’s value to increase as it fills more needs around the world. Velocity is used to explain the turnover of fiat currencies, and is described succinctly by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: The velocity of money is the frequency at which one unit of currency

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which currencies.17 Another good proxy for the increased acceptance of a cryptoasset and its growing offering by highly regulated exchanges is the amount of fiat currency used to purchase it. As also mentioned in Chapter 9, in the early days of a cryptoasset listing, the majority of the volume often goes

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, meaning that buys and sells are done in bitcoin, not dollars or euros. As cryptoassets grow in diversity, so too do their trading pairs with fiat currencies, as shown with Ethereum’s ether in Figure 13.14. Figure 13.14 Ether’s growing currency pair diversity Data sourced from CryptoCompare In the

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one-year period from March 2016 to March 2017, ether went from being traded 12 percent of the time with fiat currency to 50 percent of the time. This is a good sign of the maturation of an asset, and shows it is gaining wider recognition and

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large-scale cryptoasset networks. CRYPTOASSET EXCHANGES AND OTC DESKS Once bitcoin and other cryptoassets are minted, miners can exchange them for other cryptoassets or the fiat currency of their choice. To do so, the miner must sell the cryptoasset to someone else, either over-the-counter (OTC) or through an exchange. Many

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in the more novel cryptoassets most often requires that the investor already has bitcoin, as the exchanges that offer these cryptoassets often don’t have fiat currency onramps. During the tumultuous beginning of bitcoin, when it was the only cryptoasset in existence, numerous exchanges opened and subsequently closed, and the reasons often

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of interest.16 Mt. Gox was the first mainstream exchange, but it took two weeks for a customer’s account to be cleared, and initially fiat currency had to be wired to Japan. However, as the assets and underlying technology have matured, so too have the means of buying and selling them

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exchanges will accept a direct transfer of bitcoin that will allow for immediate trading of the cryptoassets offered on the platform. Funding an account with fiat currency typically requires links to bank accounts or credit cards. They will require a more extensive account opening process that may extend over several days and

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innovative investor should watch. The pricing problem is particularly acute for bitcoin that trades in different geographies and with different fiat currency pairs. Currently, the operations of different cryptoasset exchanges can be thought of as isolated liquidity pools, so if one exchange is experiencing significantly stronger demand

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markets, such differences in price would quickly be solved by arbitrage, but due to time delays in moving bitcoin between different exchanges, not to mention fiat currency capital controls, these pricing discrepancies persist. The combination of growing interest in bitcoin and recognition of the need for robust and regulated bitcoin indices has

The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism

by David Golumbia · 25 Sep 2016 · 87pp · 25,823 words

all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in

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about gold and silver prices being part of the Libor price-fixing scandal.[3] This preference for gold versus what they somewhat inaccurately call the “fiat currency” of nation-states only shows the ideological nature of their assertions, since gold exists right now, is widely traded and can be untraceable, largely resistant

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is in the claims of Bitcoin advocates about “fiat money,” also an important trope in right-wing extremism. As a general idea, the notion of “fiat currency” has a long history in economics. For example, decades prior to the development of Bitcoin, liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith (1975, 63) offered the following

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“intrinsic value”—that is, where the token used as currency for that money has demonstrable value in another context. The most typical example of non-fiat currency is gold, because gold has many uses and is still valuable even when not in circulation as currency; paper money, on the other hand, is

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is inherently a creation of the state, regardless of whether it is based on a token of intrinsic value, even a gold standard would be “fiat currency” according to this definition. One suspects that “fiat by the state” is used in these definitions because the thought of some non-state actor deliberately

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citizens of their wealth. According to these standard usages, Bitcoin could only be fiat money; Schroeder (2015, 1n2) writes that Bitcoin “can be considered a fiat currency in that it also has no underlying asset.” Yet because of the appeal of currencies with intrinsic value to the right wing, one of the

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software system (e.g., the energy put into mining, or the “trust” put into the system by its users) can qualify. The supposed problem with fiat currency, which happens to be a favored talking point of conspiratorial libertarians like Ron Paul and Rand Paul (Shoff 2012), is that it interferes with the

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. House of Representatives, “If unchecked, the economic and political chaos that comes from currency destruction inevitably leads to tyranny.” What people like Paul criticize about “fiat” currencies is that “central bankers” can manipulate the value of the currency, which is purportedly not the case with asset-backed currencies like gold. The whole

The Currency Cold War: Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony

by David G. W. Birch · 14 Apr 2020 · 247pp · 60,543 words

Currency/Electronic Payment (DCEP) system is already far ahead of the Fed’s digital currency efforts, but also from private offerings such as Libra, a fiat currency-backed digital currency founded by Facebook and two-dozen corporate partners. Initially, governments resisted Libra, throwing regulatory barriers in its way. But crises create strange

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point. Since the Industrial Revolution, there have been three different kinds of currency, essentially, that have served to support the modern economy. These are the fiat currencies that we are familiar with today, the free banking currencies that used to exist in many countries (including Scotland) but are now a relic, and

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that will distinguish it from the dumb money we have today (see table 2). The ecology of the coming currency landscape, instead of being a fiat currency monoculture, will have a rich and diverse set of currencies to help us (well, our bots) navigate the information-rich marketplaces of the new economy

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important to achieve a social consensus on how such smart money should be integrated into the existing financial system. Chapter 3 Anyone can make money [Fiat currency] is another 20th century ‘big state ideology’ just like socialism. — Detlev S. Schlichter, Paper Money Collapse (2011) We are used to one particular kind of

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, and in both cases the electronic value in the chips was issued against a 100% reserve in fiat currency held by the banking system.13 Swedish models The country where the transition from physical to digital fiat currency is likely to take hold first is Sweden. So, it is sensible to try to understand

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they make a success of it? Early local currency experiments have not gone that well, and the jury is still out on the main supranational fiat currency, the euro. Yet, looking around the world, I can confidently predict that change is in the air: it is no longer just local currency climate

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banks too. The Bank of England’s 2019 review on ‘the future of finance’ said that the bank should monitor developments in the tokenization of fiat currency to make sure the regulatory, legal and infrastructure implications are understood, and monetary and financial stability are safeguarded. However, the Bank of England saw no

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currency. Why digital currency? Now let us explore why there is a demand for some form of digital currency, whether public or private, whether a fiat currency or some form of artificial currency. I rather liked the Positive Money approach to this. In a report on digital currency, Dyson and Hodgson (2016

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currency boards, which we will discuss later), which are similar to asset-backed currencies, but in this case the assets backing the digital currency are fiat currencies only. There are mundane versions of these already: in Bulgaria, for example, the local currency (the Lev) is backed by a 100% reserve of euros

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, this is effectively what is currently defined as e-money under the existing EU directives, and therefore it is already regulated. The cryptocoins backed by fiat currency, such as JPM Coin, simply provide a convenient way to transfer value around the internet without having to go through banking networks. Now, this may

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mix of sovereign debt of the five basket currencies’ (Coats 2019). Currency boards As noted in the discussion about types of digital currency, a digital fiat currency that is 100% backed by a basket of other currencies is known as a ‘currency board’. These are not new; in fact, the currency board

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be notes and coins, of course, but we are only interested in digital money) which can be converted into external ‘reserve’ assets such as other fiat currencies or some commodity on demand at a fixed exchange rate. The currency board’s reserves are equal to 100%, or perhaps even slightly more, of

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on saw this idea sidelined for good. The point is, though, that it was a feasible option, and that a digital currency backed by a fiat currency reserve is both a sensible idea and a potential hegemonic currency. Exploring taxonomy: the Dimon dollar To illustrate some of the points I made about

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, government or otherwise. Is it a ‘stablecoin’? No, it is not. A stablecoin has its value maintained at a certain level with reference to a fiat currency by managing the supply of the coins. The value of the $Dimon, however, is maintained by JPMC, irrespective of the demand for it. Is it

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issues in mind and remembering the differences between cryptocurrency and digital currency, let us review a few of the key issues with creating a digital fiat currency. A monetary regime with central bank-issued national digital currency (i.e. digital fiat) has never existed anywhere, a major reason being that the technology

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, available to people and firms for retail payments? This is the question we need to tackle first in the design of a digital replacement for fiat currency: in other words, Brit-Ledger, Brit-Coin or Brit-Dex? The IMF’s Staff Discussion Note 18/08 on which Lagarde’s speech is based

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think this is a really critical point. The optimum anonymity level of cash replacement products should be discussed in the context of implementing a digital fiat currency of one form or another. Koning’s paper explores three ways to implement a CBDC for Brazil, each of which illustrates the design choices that

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eating tuna out of a can. Chapter 7 Private digital currency Digital currencies issued by Big Tech firms would undoubtedly have some advantages relative to fiat currencies. — Gita Gopinath, IMF chief economist, Financial Times (7 January 2020) It is now a quarter of a century since a pamphlet I picked up at

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an M-Pesa. In his vision, you send me an IBM dollar and I put it in my wallet. Instead of bank accounts in conventional fiat currency, companies would hold a basket of such currencies. It is worth emphasizing that de Bono also wrote that the key to any such developments would

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, such as SDRs and ECUs, albeit with the potential addition of tier 1 capital to its basket of assets. Clearly Libra is not a digital fiat currency as previously described; nonetheless, it should in theory (unlike cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin) provide a reasonably stable currency for international trade.42 Table 9. The

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is targeting more than twice that many. There are further significant implications. What if, for example, the inhabitants of some countries abandoned their failing inflationary fiat currency and began to use Libra instead? The ability of central banks to manage the economy would then surely be subverted, and this would almost certainly

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, so far as I can tell) the most important current initiative in the world of digital fiat. This is happening in China, where, of course, fiat currency had its roots. When Kublai Khan became emperor in the thirteenth century, he determined that it was a burden to commerce and taxation to have

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Republic of Korea (DPRK) intends to go down the Facebook route: it is planning to create an asset-backed digital currency rather than a digital fiat currency and then use some sort of blockchain with ‘Ethereum-style smart contracts’ to conduct business and avoid sanctions. Why use a blockchain? Well, the regime

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. 2019b. The New York inclusive value ledger: a peer-to-peer savings & payments platform for an all-embracing and dynamic state economy. Research Paper, Digital Fiat Currency Institute, September. Jeffery, C., and D. Hinge. 2019. Mark Carney on joined-up policy-making, forward guidance and Brexit. Central Banking, 19 August. John, A

Money Free and Unfree

by George A. Selgin · 14 Jun 2017 · 454pp · 134,482 words

foreign coins—less frequently requiring weighing and assaying—as their medium of exchange. By contrast, traders who consider switching from a domestic to an alternative fiat currency as a medium of exchange find that there is no simple common metric. A network effect associated with using the common unit of account protects

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to become quite severe before “dollarization” of domestic transactions occurs. Because currency substitution and the elasticity of demand for domestic base money are reduced under fiat currency, the fiscal hypothesis predicts higher inflation rates under fiat standards than under metallic standards (which allow inflationary finance via debasement). This prediction is borne out

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comparison of commodity-money and fiat-money episodes after 1600 (Rolnick and Weber 1994). FIAT-MONEY MONOPOLY Why does a revenue-seeking government itself issue fiat currency monopolistically, instead of taxing private issuers? The reasons for thinking that a seigniorage-seeking government would prefer a mint monopoly to taxation of private mints

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apply again. In the case of fiat money, a more fundamental reason exists as well: open competition in the production of fiat currency is, to date, a purely hypothetical possibility, and one that might not be sustainable in practice. If “competitive supply” of fiat money meant free entry

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busts, it has considerably complicated the possibility of fundamental reform, because a fiat standard, unlike a gold or silver standard, must be monopolistically administered if fiat currency is to retain any value, and because allowing commercial banks the right to issue notes that are themselves redeemable in fiat money, whatever advantages such

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deposits or loan payments would routinely reissue them instead of returning them to the issuer for redemption. As has been noted for the case of fiat currency, a plurality of unconstrained issuers of a homogenous high-powered money is inconsistent with monetary stability (Klein 1974: 423–53). Recognizing this problem, contemporary banking

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is what has made the worlds of banking and finance so large, powerful and rich. Modern money could thus be defined as ‘electronic debt-based fiat currency’. Research by UK think tank Positive Money shows that since 1989, money creation has been growing by 11.5% per annum. Compounded over time, the

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all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in

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‘the only electronic currency that has achieved critical mass on the web’.17 Jackson believed his payment system, backed by solid gold, would eventually rival fiat currencies. At its zenith in 2008, E-gold was processing over $2 billion worth of transactions a year with some four million accounts open. The problem

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cannot be understated: the Bitcoin protocol is a monumental technological achievement. Regardless of whether the system will prove to be a real-world alternative to fiat currency, the technical achievement is undeniable. It solves several previously unsolved cryptographic problems surrounding “distributed trust” (for example, the Byzantine Generals’ Problem) and synthesizes technologies such

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of unprecedented security from these dangers.’161 Satoshi echoed him: ‘The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in

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decentralizes the American-centric control of the domain name system. Ripple aims to allow instant, secure and ‘nearly free’ payment, exchange and remittance of any fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodity or other unit of value from air miles to mobile minutes. It does not consume energy in the way that bitcoin mining does

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of that economy, but a common assumption seems to be that it will carry on at it is now, as if the post-Bretton Woods fiat currency is a natural phenomenon or the final stage of a directed evolutionary process. Christine Desan, Leo Gottlieb Professor at the Harvard Law School, asks why

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something of a mid-life crisis. When Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of the US dollar into gold in 1971, we entered the world of fiat currency described in the introduction. From that day on, dollars have been backed by the full faith and credit of the United States and nothing more

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new technologies, that first wave of cash replacement was firmly rooted in the paradigm of the present, not the future, using cards to implement electronic fiat currency. Mondex cards and wallet. The story of the most ‘cash like’ of those efforts, Mondex, is I think illustrative, and personal, because I was there

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continue. In 1971, when Richard Nixon made the famous decision to end the convertibility of the US dollar into gold, we entered the world of fiat currency, floating exchange rates, computers, global telecommunications and global trading. In March 1973 the European countries that were still tied to the US dollar announced that

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in the marketplace but they do not choose to hold them as a store of value. Governments can force their citizens and subjects to hold fiat currency by requiring its use for state transactions (e.g. tax) but they have no such control over foreigners. In a world in which people will

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Analogue currency Physical money that is a unit of account Digital currency Electronic money that is a unit of account in mundane and virtual transactions Fiat currency Analogue currency whose value is maintained by the reputation of the issuer Crypto currency Money without an issuer: a currency whose value is maintained by

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the interest isn’t, therefore, specifically in Bitcoin, to my mind, but rather in the feasibility of an alternative to the state-issued, interest-bearing fiat currency money system that has been in place for the last forty years. If that interest helps to facilitate debate about what society wants from money

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the bastard child of Ripple and M-Pesa than a blockchain cryptocurrency with a one-to-one reserve in sterling. Does this kind of digital fiat currency make sense? I think it does, and so does the Bank of England, which says in its study of the issues that (Barrdear and Kumhof

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two questions we need to ask after reviewing these issues. The first is whether it makes sense for a central bank to issue a digital fiat currency and the second is how the economic, technological and regulatory framework for such a currency might work. Now, it is important to understand that there

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to implement a national cryptocurrency. I feel that, as I live in a society, I would like society to have some control over money. Communities Fiat currencies are creatures born of the nation state and as such reflect the coincidence of interests that the nation state itself represents, each of which might

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attractive and there have been a great many such experiments around the world. It appears that digital community currencies have a greater spending multiplier than fiat currency (Groppa 2013), which says to me that we should take them seriously as we continue to reconfigure following the global financial crisis. Historically, however, the

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the podcast, Felix sensibly attempts to refute some of my crackpot theories about London having its own money and Scotland launching the first wholly virtual fiat currency, but I feel that the tectonic plates underlying currency have shifted in my direction. Once again, let’s pop over to the Financial Times to

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that corporations would not issue their own private currency. I’m not so sure about this. If there are going to be more monies than fiat currencies, then corporations are obvious issuers of transactional medium of exchange currencies, and companies and their customers are a kind of community that has incentives to

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big picture from chapter 16 and considering the pressures for change, it is not at all clear to me that the current central bank option (fiat currency) is the best choice for the post-industrial economy, whether in the form of Britcoin or Brit-Pesa. Central banks might have matured since the

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in their dotage, but as Mervyn King points out this does not rule out their reformation or removal (King 2016d). They can survive (a digital fiat currency is certainly a viable option for the next phase of economic evolution) but it may no longer be optimal for national governments to create and

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this future, saying that individuals will protect their ‘personal identity, credit ratings and parking spaces’ at all costs, and that since monetary arrangements (nation-state fiat currencies) will have collapsed, the commercial paper of global corporations will be used as international currency. I might take issue with Ringland here and say ‘social

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faded and what we think of as the Bretton Woods set of arrangements based on international institutions (e.g. the International Monetary Fund) replaced it. Fiat currency (from the Latin, as in fiat lux: ‘let there be light’) became the normal form of money even as it began to dissociate from the

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, a city government issued its own currency, backed by acceptability for payment of local taxes and fees. The effect of fiat currencies is much more potent than that of proxy currencies because fiat currencies have the potential of putting money in the hands of those who would otherwise not have it. It is only

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exchange rate. They are thus similar to a standard sovereign currency with a floating exchange rate. In the absence of local government support, because complementary fiat currencies are not easily convertible into dollars, businesses are generally much less willing to accept them than they are proxy currencies. That is because in the

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