Sentences with phrase «government fiat paper»

In 1886 the Colombian government introduced several decrees forcing the acceptance of government fiat paper notes.

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Whether that's this year in 2018 or 2019, I don't know, but I do know that over the next 3 years this big reversal that we talk about in the paper is going to unfold and is going to take away all the options from the governments that have fiat currencies.

You see, with fiat currency, a government makes the decision of printing and distributing its paper currency.

Unlike fiat currencies (such as US dollars or euros) bitcoins are not controlled by a central government or bank and new bitcoin can not be printed and issued like paper money.

Put another way, governments essentially create an artificial use case for their own forms of paper money by threatening people with punishment if they do not pay taxes, which are denominated in the government's own fiat currency, to the government.

In his paper, Reid essentially criticized the centralized nature of fiat currencies and the ability of governments, authorities, and central banks to manipulate virtually aspect of paper money, including inflation rates.

Most modern fiat currencies are nothing more than a piece of paper that the issuing government attributes value to.

The Indian government has also claimed a war on so - called black money, lower denominated fiat paper, and this too appears to be another reason for the attention paid bitcoin's traders.