Nowadays (post-gold standard) crypto is more similar to gold than to fiat; you can’t eat either, but the value of crypto and gold comes from whatever people freely want to pay for them, unlike fiat’s value which gets enforced through taxes and armies.
Gold is also fungible, and doesn’t get consumed during normal use, just like most popular crypto projects (although some are neither, and explicitly “burning” crypto makes it unrecoverable).
fractional reserve banking can be done with those others but not really with crypto.
You’d think that… but crypto ETFs say otherwise. You can also look into Sam Bankman-Fried, an extreme case of “fractional reserve” (aka: scam).
General rule: not your keys, not your crypto… and you better have the holder of “not your crypto” thoroughly audited on a regular basis.
Gold value was also enforced by armies and taxes. It has uses nowadays that it did not use to have. Used to be gold was only useful as a decoration or as a coating that wouldn’t tarnish. The actual value was that you had to pay taxes in it.
Crypto has no value, less value than fiat even, because I can’t buy groceries with it, nor can I pay taxes with it.
Also, you can’t fractional reserve crypto unless you’re using a second crypto currency backed by a first.
Nowadays (post-gold standard) crypto is more similar to gold than to fiat; you can’t eat either, but the value of crypto and gold comes from whatever people freely want to pay for them, unlike fiat’s value which gets enforced through taxes and armies.
Gold is also fungible, and doesn’t get consumed during normal use, just like most popular crypto projects (although some are neither, and explicitly “burning” crypto makes it unrecoverable).
You’d think that… but crypto ETFs say otherwise. You can also look into Sam Bankman-Fried, an extreme case of “fractional reserve” (aka: scam).
General rule: not your keys, not your crypto… and you better have the holder of “not your crypto” thoroughly audited on a regular basis.
Gold value was also enforced by armies and taxes. It has uses nowadays that it did not use to have. Used to be gold was only useful as a decoration or as a coating that wouldn’t tarnish. The actual value was that you had to pay taxes in it.
Crypto has no value, less value than fiat even, because I can’t buy groceries with it, nor can I pay taxes with it.
Also, you can’t fractional reserve crypto unless you’re using a second crypto currency backed by a first.