Quote Originally Posted by Bern View Post
The barrier for entry for gold and silver to compete with FRNs as currencies are legal tender laws and capital gains taxes.

Is Warden Norton being purposely obtuse? He be trolling.
Is anyone stopping you from using gold and silver as your means of transactions? No.

Whereas it is true that FRBN, needed for taxes, makes FRBN highly marketable, hence, becomes the money - not because of government making FRBN money, but by the marketability generated by the people using FRBN.