How a Bitcoin System is Like and Unlike a Gold Standard

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Economists are interested in how a monetary system based on Bitcoin compares to a gold-standard monetary system. Both Bitcoin and gold are stateless and both provide a base money that is reliably limited in quantity. However, Bitcoin and the gold standard are obviously different in other ways.

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