Ether is the reserve currency for the world’s shadow financial system.https://twitter.com/ricburton/status/1000267133383856129 …
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Good thing I didn’t say such. The argument could be made that fiat has allowed for greater competition and economic growth... International trade and fractional reserve banking is not possible with gold backed currency. Manipulation happens across all assets; London gold pool.
1. The modern age, until recently, tolerated some forms of competition thought not free monetary competition. 2. FRB existed on top of the gold standard, just not as aggresively. 3. Bitcoin transcends almost every single one of Gold’s limitations.
4. International trade existed for millenia before fiat came into existence.
Correct. But all of those things you’ve stated (except for #3) accelerated dramatically into the 20th century and the argument could be made fiat was the only scalable solution. These are just arguments, not my opinion per se.
These things accelerated *in spite* of fiat, not *because of* it. 
These things accelerated because of modern technological advances.
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