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by dragonwriter 1890 days ago
> No coiners as usual seem to ignore that Yens or Euros (or even gold bars!) can't be used as cash in the US.

Yen and Euros can be used as cash in Japan and the Eurozone, though.

And, yeah, gold bars mostly aren’t money, either (there was a time when that may have been different, but...)