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The term legal tender is practically a meaningless term. It just means that the government forces you to accept it. You also forget that electronic money is basically counterfeit money which gets devalued when central banks print more money. After all if central banks "print" more electronic money are there any serial numbers on the "notes"?

Which is why I added the point after the notes being destroyed once they entered the Bitcoin type system. Of course an institution taking in the notes would have the ability to check if they are counterfeit or not, not to mention that some central banks are unable to detect counterfeits of their own currency. Lets be honest, how capable are the banks of detecting that old 1000 rupee notes being deposited with them are not counterfeit?

If anything the new currency created from old 1000 rupee notes would hold its value better in the long term compared to the rupee term as there is only a limited amount of them in circulation.