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Hold on! And note that Hayek's ‘Denationalisation of Money’ was an idea that private money is better than public money because private issuers:

1) will compete with each other on the open market; and

2) will be incentivised to maintain and protect the value of their private money.

It is sort of funny because it looks like Hayek in fact proposed something that we now call crypto shitcoins.

I tend to forgive him since he could not assume that it would possible to invent (or discover if you like) money which is absolutely scarce.

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cryptohamster 1y ago

You have to remember when Hayek was writing the shadow of the Great Depressiwas still hanging, and there was a lot of thought about how to allow financial structures to rebalance under stress.

Oil companies borrowing in oil, New Yorkers in NYUSD etc. IIRC Irvine Fisher wrote a bit about this.

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