๐๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐น๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง โ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ค๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐โ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅโ๐ด ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต #Ai-๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฅ #Bitcoin ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ.
The properties of sound money have been listed in many places and in varying ways. In this chapter, Svetski (npub1dtgโฆup6m), TheGuySwann (npub1h8nโฆrpev), and Daniel Prince (npub1hghโฆfyz2) give their takes on this well-known list, each with their own twist.
Below is Guy Swannโs answer, as written in โ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ค๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐โ:
๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ปโ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ:
The properties of sound money are as follows:
๐ญ - It is easy to transport.
๐ฎ - It doesn't degrade or rot over time.
๐ฏ - Each unit is identical and can be swapped for any other equal unit.
๐ฐ - It can be broken down into tiny pieces, or gathered into large amounts and the value of each is still directly proportional to its measured amount.
๐ฑ - It is extremely difficult to make more of. This allows it to encourage the creation of actual goods and services that people need to prosper, while trading for money, rather than wasting time and energy making more of the monetary unit.
๐ฒ - It is easily verifiable, so that counterfeit versions do not get mistaken for it in the market, or in practice it will lose the property of being extremely difficult to make.
๐ณ - And its characteristics must be the same for all users, which arises from its independence or decentralization. Otherwise it will eventually fail due to the abuses and corruption of any humans who can cheat the money instead of participating in the economy.
These can manifest in varying degrees, but all of them must largely be true for a monetary good to survive at a large scale and across long spans of time. The most successful historical example is gold, which held all of these characteristics when economic activity took place almost entirely in person. But then lost the characteristics of #1, #5, #6, and #7 when more and more economic activity began taking place over telecommunications lines. Thus, the loss of these characteristics led to its ultimate abuse and failure to remain a viable money at scale in our modern society.
Guy Swann is host of the Bitcoin Audible podcast featured in Forbes Magazineโs Top Crypto Podcasts of 2020, and CEO of One Eleven Productions. He also hosts the Shitcoin Insider and AI Unchained podcasts. He found himself engrossed in the economic experiment and technological breakthrough of Bitcoin in 2011, and hasnโt been able to pull himself away since. He has a background in networking and system administration, film and media production, and is an avid student of economics. Heโs literally read thousands of hours of works on the many disciplines around Bitcoin and has listened to even more. Heโs โread more about Bitcoin than anyone else you know!โ
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