[tenaciousDaniel]

Yeah I remember reading that around 80% of the world's currency is now digital. Although I think the key word in the original comment was "true". As in, it is the first currency that is entirely digital, which before bitcoin wasn't possible. Regardless of how valuable you think that notion is, it's still a very interesting technological development.

[JumpCrisscross]

> [Bitcoin] is the first currency that is entirely digital, which before bitcoin wasn't possible

It is absolutely possible. Sweden is close to achieving it [1]. The hurdle isn't technological. People like physical cash. Consider the shitstorm that would erupt in America if the Treasury announced it would stop printing and minting physical currency.

> it's still a very interesting technological development

I agree.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/04/sweden-cash...

[tenaciousDaniel]

Fair enough, although "entirely digital" has broader implications than whether the currency itself is physical. It's more that the backing of the currency is digital. In Sweden's case, the backing is still the government. And there are physical representations of crypto in the form of QR codes and such.