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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The “value” of the money in your bank account is controlled by the central bank that regulates that currency, be it the dollar or the euro.
The “value” of bitcoin is set be an open market, like any other commodity: gold, oil, … .
While governments sometimes dabble in commodity prices, like the recent oil market, they really can’t “control” them. Through quantitative easing they can directly control the value of fiat currency.
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