Cash Culture: Bitcoin Is a Savior in a World that Demonizes ‘Big Bills’
Harvard Public Policy professor Kenneth Rogoff might be a world-renowned economist, but he’s dead wrong on banning cash. Or, as he prefers, getting rid of ‘big bills’ like $50s and $100s. Even if his opinions on cash prevail, though, there is one form of cash he can never ban: Bitcoin. Rogoff: ‘Big Bills Are a Curse’. A pioneer of the “cashless society”....
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