Why Bitcoin Qualifies as Money while the Dollar is just Currency
As national fiat currencies slowly, but surely, fall by the wayside, or get outright replaced by digital currencies, its time to review the advantages of using Bitcoin as money going forward. Currency and money are not the same things, they just have many of the same properties. The textbook definition in your dictionary may even give credence to money being "stamped by public authority". That's interesting, given the fact that before there were governments creating paper currency people did exchange beads for feathers, or milk for eggs. There was barter, as currency, and Gold was real....
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Earlier this year, the South American nation of Ecuador became the first country in the world to have its own official digital currency. Ecuador abandoned the use of its national currency 'sucre' in 2000 amidst the banking crisis to adopt the US dollar as the currency for transaction. Since then the country has been using dollars as the instrument of payment. The country, led by its President Rafael Correa since 2007 had announced in mid-2014 the plan of going digital with a government backed digital currency. The new digital currency system is set up to be used alongside the conventional....
A US district judge has denied a motion by the one of the founders of early digital currency firm Liberty Reserve to dismiss a federal indictment filed two years ago. According to court documents, Arthur Budovsky asked the judge to waive the indictment on multiple grounds in June, raising questions about whether the firm, based in Costa Rica, was required to register as a money services businesses and whether bitcoin qualifies as "funds". US District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York rejected Budovsky's motion, which will set the stage for Budovsky to head to trial.....
The question of whether or not Bitcoin is money, property or a commodity took one step closer as a Federal judge ruled in the case of Robert Faiella, 54 and Charles Shrem, 24, that Bitcoin was money. This case is actually not the only ruling on the issue by US courts that called Bitcoin money. The judge did not agree with the defense's idea that Bitcoin was not money saying Bitcoin "clearly qualifies as 'money' or ‘funds.’” In this particular case, defendants were moving money through the Silk Road and the judge stated that since Bitcoin has a denominator of value (each Bitcoin is worth a....