[bert]

——The only further debasement of the currency possible is to reduce the physical size of a dollar bill to the size of a postage stamp.———

The size of the bill is irrelevant. all money today is actually entries on electronic ledgers. The bills are but physical representation s of those ledger entries.

The single zap to make an entry can represent a single $ or a trillion $$’s but itself is infinitely small

[count-your-change]

I thought folks might see the sarcasm.

[lentulusgracchus]

The size of the bill is irrelevant. all money today is actually entries on electronic ledgers. The bills are but physical representation s of those ledger entries.

I was just noticing that my bank has stopped providing the shot-down images of my checks. Now I have zero protection against check-kiting rings.

I have pointed out (uselessly) to my damned banker that electronic ledger-entries are not protectable against modern cybercrime -- I was told to quit banking online seven years ago, the 128-bit key was already coming into question -- and that an electron stream is far, far too tenuous and insubstantial a thread by which to hold and manage real wealth.

Give me florins and thalers, ducats and gold bezants any day.