MacCoins to Replace Dollar and Bitcoin

Posted by mshupe 6 years, 5 months ago to Culture

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Posted by mminnick 6 years, 5 months ago

MacCoins have several drawbacks:
1. The are Backed by a non Government Agency
3. They can be discontinued at any time,
3. They could be easy to counterfeit,
4. Competing coins could devalue them

Wait - that is the same problem the US Dollar faces. Maybe they would be good afterall.

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  Posted by mshupe 6 years, 5 months ago
  
  If the Treasury stopped adding to the global supply of dollars, that would be the best thing the government could do for all of human existence.
  
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Posted by mshupe 6 years, 5 months ago

Buy many and buy often. They will start out as a medium of exchange, and when they stop minting them they will be a store of value. Their store/value ratio will be sufficiently high. Unfortunately, when they become an international unit of exchange, Mc Donald's will flood the market and it will collapse.

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  Posted by CBJ 6 years, 5 months ago
  
  From the article: "Unfortunately Ronald McNixon will close the Big Mac window at the end of the year, rendering the MacCoins to simply nominal value."
  
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Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 5 months ago

My mouth is watering for the double patty with secret sauce. A Ray Kroc mac coin is a bonus.

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  Posted by Suzanne43 6 years, 5 months ago
  
  So do you get fries with that?
  
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    Posted by mshupe 6 years, 5 months ago
    
    In the Gulch?
    
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      Posted by Suzanne43 6 years, 5 months ago
      
      Why not. If I lived in the Gulch and couldn't have fries, I might have to rethink where I'm living. Fries are my number one favorite food.
      
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        Posted by allosaur 6 years, 5 months ago
        
        Me a real dino wants to know if you're a real mermaid. In the movie Splash, when Daryl Hannah's mermaid character was out of the ocean, she craved fast food fries.
        
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        Posted by Suzanne43 6 years, 5 months ago
        
        Ah, so that's what happened to her. She is my long lost twin sister.
        
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        Posted by allosaur 6 years, 5 months ago
        
        My memory of how the movie ends is foggy, but I think your twin sister swam off with Tom Hanks.
        
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        Posted by Suzanne43 6 years, 5 months ago
        
        Yes, I think you're right. She can have the old liberal.
        
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        Posted by allosaur 6 years, 5 months ago
        
        Me dino doesn't know Hannah's politics but it's likely a heavenly match made in Hollywood.
        They and all their merkids were probably all crying, "Not my president!" after Cackles failed "to break the glass ceiling" and instead screamed, "I'm melting! I'm melting!"
        
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        Posted by Suzanne43 6 years, 5 months ago
        
        If Cackles would only melt or go the way of Rumpelstiltskin, which I would love to watch..
        
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        Posted by allosaur 6 years, 5 months ago
        
        Me dino would love to see the expression on that poster witch for those considered to be our above the law more than equal elite betters if she's ever charged with any of the federal crimes she's committed.
        
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        Posted by Suzanne43 6 years, 5 months ago
        
        Love to see it, but don't count on it. Remember she is above the law. If she weren't she and her husband would have been in jail a long time ago.
        
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        Posted by allosaur 6 years, 5 months ago
        
        The Clintons are like our aristocratic "betters" back in the days of King George before he lost his American colonies.
        
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    Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 5 months ago
    
    Hi Suzanne43,
    Yes but eating at the Golden Arches is about once a season. Usually after I forget how hard it is on my system and hunger overtakes reason.
    
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      Posted by Suzanne43 6 years, 5 months ago
      
      I know eating at the Golden Arches is probably not the most healthful thing you can do for your body, but sometimes it's good to feed your soul.
      
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Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago

How bout something really unique- a receipt for a given amount of gold that you buy and place it in a bank in exchange for a receipt. The gold is yours not to be lent out. The paper receipt can be traded around but it always has a value in terms of a quantity of goldl

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  Posted by mshupe 6 years, 5 months ago
  
  That would be really unique!
  
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  Posted by mshupe 6 years, 5 months ago
  
  That would be really unique!
  
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    Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago
    
    And I really can’t say I thought of it ! In the Wild West gold rush it was commonplace
    
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Posted by jimjamesjames 6 years, 5 months ago

I'll wait for BurgerKing.......

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Posted by mshupe 6 years, 5 months ago

As it should be, to legitimize its credibility as currency!

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Posted by mshupe 6 years, 5 months ago

I suspect that the finest fries ever imagined are available in the Gulch, ala carte.

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Posted by CircuitGuy 6 years, 5 months ago

They're like Forever stamps.

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