Did you know that throughout recent history there are numerous examples of warfare strategies where one side would counterfeit the opponent's currency and then drop it in their economy in hopes of hyperinflating and destabilizing it?
  1. 🇩🇪 Operation Bernhard: Counterfeit British pounds, WWII (1942-1945)
  2. 🇬🇧 American Revolutionary War: Counterfeit Continental currency (1775-1783)
  3. 🇺🇸 Civil War: Confederacy counterfeits Union currency (1861-1865)
  4. 🇰🇵 North Korea: "Supernotes," counterfeit US dollars (1970s-present)
  5. 🇮🇶 Saddam Hussein's Iraq: Counterfeit US currency (1990s)
  6. 🇬🇧 French Revolutionary Wars: Counterfeit French Assignats (1792-1802)
  7. 🇩🇪 WWI: German counterfeit Russian rubles (1914-1918)
  8. 🇨🇳 Chinese Civil War: Kuomintang vs. Communists, both counterfeit (1946-1949)
  9. 🇬🇧 Operation Mincemeat: Counterfeit German currency, WWII (1943)
  10. 🇺🇸 Cold War: CIA counterfeit Soviet rubles (1947-1991)
  11. 🇷🇺 Cold War: USSR counterfeit US currency (1947-1991)
  12. 🇮🇱 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israel counterfeits Palestinian currency (1990s)
  13. 🇬🇧 American Civil War: Union counterfeits Confederate currency (1861-1865)
  14. 🇦🇷 Argentine-Brazilian rivalry: Argentina counterfeits Brazilian currency (1980s)
  15. 🇮🇷 Iranian counterfeit operations: Counterfeit US currency (2000s)
Guess what cannot be counterfeit...
Didn't know about or consider this before. Very interesting concept, but I know one store of value that cannot be counterfeited.
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There is actually a comedy about just this, where Germans drop a load of Money in France to break their currency: Croesus (film)
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Да... сейчас любой желающий может подделать доллар))) пишешь смарт контракт и готово) 1000 0000 000$ есть))) кто купит??? Tether же покупают))))
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Great birds-eye view of the wonderful world of fiat.
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