“The struggle to preserve the illusion that money is real is never over, and it never can be.”Tagged: currency, Reality Making, Money, Capital
“U.S. dollars are not backed by anything other than the faith of the fools who accept it as payment and of other fools who agree in turn to accept it as payment from them. The main difference is that, for the moment at least, the illusion, in the case of dollars, is more widely and more fiercely…”Tagged: Bitcoin, The Nature of Currency, Illusionary Barter Systems, Money, Quote of the Moment