The digitalization of money through cryptocurrencies is supposed to facilitate a new world of instantaneous cheap transactions between all humans and all machines. But how do these systems currently stack up against money, the most basic use case they are supposed to disrupt? To make this assessment, we first need to understand the current money system and the costs associated with it. The two intrinsic costs associated with currency that I will look at here are transaction costs, and the cost of inflation.
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