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by minitoar 1843 days ago
What other currency are people fanatic about HODL'ing? It's not a currency.
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I don’t know about you but the concept of collecting US Dollars et al seems to me to have caught on
It’s generally not recommended to hold your wealth in dollars. You invest it. Currencies aren’t for holding, they’re for transacting.
What other currencies or monetary goods are being developed and realized in real-time?

If gold was invented today, what would it look like, and how would it function?

You don't go your shop with gold bars either. You store them in your bank account and use 2nd-layer currency (fiat used to be tied to gold). Same way you store bitcoin and use 2nd-layer currencies like lightning-network.

I'm not saying it works particularly well yet but the idea is sound.