On 02-Apr-2013, at 18:35, Alaric Snell-Pym <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hard currency is merely a token of barter, just one that's gained > widespread trust. That's a quantitative matter rather than a qualitative > matter! Except that it has a sovereign guarantee backing it. Which may not matter as much if the country backing it is, say, Zimbabwe. But you get the picture.
