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intermediary exists – the miner – who charges a transaction fee.The fundamental value of assets is based on their cash flow or … hedge against financial crisis and inflation. Bitcoin has no cash flow or utility, and statistics show that it is no hedge …
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The cryptocurrency Bitcoin has been marketed as revolutionary new money and an attractive investment. But closer examination suggests that Bitcoin works poorly as money and does not qualify as an asset based on user value. Instead, almost all Bitcoin trading has purely speculative purposes
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applied in Sweden in the period 1153–1512. In medieval Europe, old coins were frequently declared invalid and were exchanged … medieval Sweden is analyzed against the historical record. A theory of how short-lived and long-lived coinage systems work is … applied to Swedish coinage. Sweden adopted similar coin forms as those minted in Continental Europe in the Middle Ages, but …
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. Here, the question of whether and when such re-coinage was applied in medieval Sweden is analyzed against the historical … record. A theory of how short-lived coinage systems work is applied to Swedish coinage. It is shown that Sweden adopted …
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Swedish experience is extraordinarily consistent with this theory. It is shown that Sweden adopted coin types similar to those …
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. Here, the question of whether and when such re-coinage was applied in medieval Sweden is analyzed against the historical … record. A theory of how short-lived coinage systems work is applied to Swedish coinage. It is shown that Sweden adopted …
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Re-coinage implies that old coins are declared invalid and exchanged for new ones at fixed exchange rates and dates. Empirical evidence shows that re-coinage could occur as often as twice a year within a currency area in the Middle Ages. The exchange fee at re-coinage worked as a monetary tax...
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Although the leaf-thin bracteates are the most fragile coins in monetary history, they were the main coin type for almost two centuries in large parts of medieval Europe. The usefulness of the bracteates can be linked to the contemporary monetary taxation policy. Medieval coins were frequently...
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. Here, the question of whether and when such re-coinage was applied in medieval Sweden is analyzed against the historical … record. A theory of how short-lived coinage systems work is applied to Swedish coinage. It is shown that Sweden adopted …
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could occur as often as twice a year. Using a cash-in-advance model, prices increase over time during an issue period and …
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