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No need to be testy.

I could burn 51% of a US $100 bill and get reimbursed but I don't live in the USA.

Fiat money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

* Any money declared by a government to be legal tender

* State-issued money which is neither convertible by law to any other thing, nor fixed in value in terms of any objective standard.

* Intrinsically valueless money used as money because of government decree

  And no before anyone says it I don't belong to the cult of Bitcoin I like the idea but I'm not an evangelist.



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