Fiat is backed by the threat of violence by state a.k.a. the monopoly of violence. The state demands that you pay your taxes in whatever fiat currency it considers legal tender. Also, entities that have accounting obligation are required to accept legal tender as settlement of debt or alternatively have the violence apparatus of the state refuse to help them with the collection of said debt.
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That's true, but states have been toppled before regardless of their monopoly on violence.
Never underestimate the power of the group, when that grows large enough no amount of violence or rules will help them.
Sure, but the statement that fiat money that is also legal tender and peer-to-peer money are equal in being backed up by something is false.