{"id":14020,"date":"2014-01-19T05:53:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T04:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=14020"},"modified":"2014-01-19T05:57:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T04:57:39","slug":"money-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/money-what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Money: What is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our continuing discussion of what money is (and are bitcoins money) resident guru Lloyd McAulay weighs in with these thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>When a government prints money to the point where we can not rely on it, then the &#8220;money&#8221; no longer performs the money function and those affected find another money to use as much as possible (USDs or Zimbabwean dollars \u00a0in Zimbabwe and Euros in Greece). Those affected might forego the convenience of paper and use gold as the medium of exchange.<br \/>\nIf one is willing to accept the assurance of the Bitcoins program, then Bitcoins does function as money. If not, then not. \u00a0Bitcoins are not yet money for me.<\/p>\n<p>Most governments will replace worn out or defaced money. What happens if something goes wrong with Bitcoins? Can something go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Attached<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Empirical-Measures-in-the-Federal-Reserve.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Empirical Measures in the Federal Reserve\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>an analysis\u00a0of money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/money-what-is-it\/printing-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14022\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14022\" alt=\"Printing Money\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Printing-Money.jpg\" width=\"394\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Printing-Money.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Printing-Money-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our continuing discussion of what money is (and are bitcoins money) resident guru Lloyd McAulay weighs in with these thoughts: When a government prints money to the point where we can not rely on it, then the &#8220;money&#8221; no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/money-what-is-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurs","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In our continuing discussion of what money is (and are bitcoins money) resident guru Lloyd McAulay weighs in with these thoughts: When a government prints money to the point where we can not rely on it, then the &quot;money&quot; no longer performs the money function and those affected find another money to use as much\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lily Fleur\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/money-what-is-it\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.9.10\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"W-T-W.org - Women and Finance\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Money: What is It? 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