why do people use money when gold is a perfectly good object of value to trade?

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People have traded gold for a really long time. With accurate measuring devices and the internet for variable prices, why do people use individual nations currencies and crypto which are often unstable?

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When coins were made of gold and silver people would file shavings off them, make coated fakes, the coins thus were destroyed and degraded, practically it is easier to create a currency that is linked to the value of gold than to carry the actual gold

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