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Economy => Economics => Topic started by: bitbit on April 04, 2013, 01:07:51 AM



Title: Does money have to be a tangible good?
Post by: bitbit on April 04, 2013, 01:07:51 AM
I have always heard that money has to be a tangible good. Some people even say this is economics 101.




Title: Re: Does money have to be a tangible good?
Post by: bitbit on April 04, 2013, 01:09:12 AM
http://monetary-metals.com/gold-redeemability-bitcoin-and-backwardation/

And what do you think of this article?


Title: Re: Does money have to be a tangible good?
Post by: Tonko on April 04, 2013, 01:47:03 AM
I have always heard that money has to be a tangible good. Some people even say this is economics 101.

Who says you can't use fart as the payment?


Title: Re: Does money have to be a tangible good?
Post by: sunnankar on April 04, 2013, 03:08:19 AM
I have always heard that money has to be a tangible good.

Bitcoin is tangible (http://www.runtogold.com/2012/11/why-bitcoin-is-tangible-digging-into-the-guts-of-bitcoin/); it is just not corporeal.


Title: Re: Does money have to be a tangible good?
Post by: Mike Christ on April 04, 2013, 03:56:04 AM
People buy intangible things all the time.  If intangible goods have value, they have value going both ways.