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Well...actually, a fiat currency is one declared and issued by the state as legal tender. It's typically not redeemable for anything else, as a gold-backed one (USD from 1944 to Nixon) is.

And really, a currency like gold is valuable because it has a fixed supply and is universally accepted. Bitcoin has a fixed supply and is rapidly moving towards universal acceptance. It's totally different when a government chooses to make a dollar worth approximately X much and then prints 85 billion of them per month.

So, yeah, gold isn't a fiat currency. And Bitcoin isn't one either.





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