Cashless Product Management to CrossBorder Payment
  • A Few Words From the Author: Chief Chainlien
  • Intended Audience
  • Introduction: How to Get Rich
  • What Makes Money Money
    • A Medium of Exchange
    • A Unit of Account
    • A Store of Value
    • A Standard of Deferred Payment
    • Conculsion
    • Money Fun Facts
  • Timeline of Digital Money
  • Cryptocurrency
    • Case Study: Bitcoin (BTC)
    • Case Study: Ether (ETH)
    • Case Study: USDT
    • Case Study: HKD - A Paper Stablecoin?
  • Central Bank Digital Currency
    • Case Study: Sand Dollar (Bahamas)
    • Case Stuyd: e-CNY (China)
    • Cash Study: e-HKD (Hong Kong) and CrossBorder Transaction
  • The Cashless Promised Land
  • Appendix: Recommended Resources
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  1. What Makes Money Money

Conculsion

The Money Truth

Money is how we transfer wealth. Money is social credits; it’s the ability to have credits and debits of other people’s time.

If I do my job right and create value for society, society says, “Oh, thank you. We owe you something in the future for the work that you did. Here’s a little IOU. Let’s call that money.”

That money gets debased because people steal the IOUs; the government prints extra IOUs; and people renege on their IOUs. But money tries to be a reliable IOU from society that you are owed something for something you did in the past.

We transfer these IOUs around; money is how we transfer wealth.

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