alt Hacker NewsIs it in anyway worse when the money you had was some strips of paper, or metal coins, or goats, or salt?
All of those have some very annoying fail scenarios too.
Is it in anyway worse when the money you had was some strips of paper, or metal coins, or goats, or salt?
All of those have some very annoying fail scenarios too.
yeah, it's worse.
Someone trips over a cable and now your region of the world can't recognise that you have any wealth of any kind.
Or, you can get debanked by the state. :)
Hard to do that with coinage- but you can have your coinage destroyed in a fire (or via theft, of course).