The virtual money in this case (an online statement) doesn’t actually exist, it’s just a value system used by the bank to be translated into hard cash if ever you have to make a withdrawal. But that virtual currency isn’t a thing in reality, even if on the backend it might have its own funky way of working in the financial system.
So how does that compare to crypto? Like with any currency, value is determined by 1) how useful it is to us and 2) what we say it’s consequently worth, so what’s the conceptual difference between, say for example, 20 chainlink (for example) “dollars” and 20 virtual dollars in my bank that represent cash?
Are they *actually* different things, and if so, how?
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One of them is legal tender and the other is not. Legally, morally, and practically you can exchange goods for goods. This can be crypto currency, baseball cards, sacks of potatoes. You could even use them as a medium of exchange. I’m told that phone cards are used as currency in some places with unstable money.
If your debt is denominated in US dollars, your bank has agreed to take US dollars and can’t refuse to do that. They could refuse crypto currency, which makes it less useful than legal tender unless and until more people agree to accept it.
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