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πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ’΅ TIL: Around 1958, the recently independent Guinea wanted to print its own currency.
France, being against it, counterfeited high-quality bills and flooded the market, causing the currency to collapse.
This forced Guinea to join the French-controlled CFA franc-zone.
This can't be real.
Except it likey is.
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Fiat as a tool for control... Next, CBDCs 🧐
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I don't think this is historically accurate.
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The French start wars to keep the CFA alive in Central Africa. This was colonization all along. The U.S. does it to the rest of the world.
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there are several examples of this kind of attack.. business as usual.. sad..
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Everybody has the same rights, and therefore there is no such thing as counterfeiting. There are only shitcoins, which can be printed into oblivion by whoever is physically able to.
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Source please
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Bitcoin fixes this
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Vive la France, vive la libertΓ©
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