> On 2012-02-26 1:18 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: The demand
> for Bitcoin as a currency is driven by its properties as a
> digital cash system; people still need to get their
> nation's currency at some point

Frau Eisenmenger writes in her 1919 diary:
http://www.wolf1168.us/misc/Articles%20of%20Interest/When%20Money%20Dies.pdf
        I  survey  my  remaining  1,000-kronen  notes
        mistrustfully,  lying  by  the  side  of  the pack
        of unredeemed food cards in the writing table drawer.
        Will they not perhaps share the fate of the food
        cards if the State fails to keep the promise made on
        the inscription on every note? The State still
        accepts its own money for the scanty provisions it
        offers us. The private tradesman already refuses to
        sell his precious wares for money and demands
        something of real value in exchange. The wife of a
        doctor whom I know recently exchanged her beautiful
        piano for a sack of wheat flour. I, too, have
        exchanged my husband's gold watch for four sacks of
        potatoes,
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