My best (stupid) guess is weapons. US gov has a ton of weapons. Already sells tons of weapons. Now the prices will always remain stable. Other countries would love to know that 30 million usd would always be able to buy an f15. Other countries declaring war will increase the value of the USD, as buying weapons from us government will decrease amount of money in circulation.

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    I’d base it off of love and compassion, and instantly watch the value sink to the negatives.

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    I mean the hack which leads to the best result would be pegging it to the Euro, Pound or Yen as a strong currency controlled by a US ally

    That said, backing it with recaptured pollutants or something would be interesting as although it has no inherent value, that’s no different to how it is currently and it’d be interesting to see the mechanics of how people act

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    Rubber ducks. Would be sweet to know how many one can get for bills when needed.

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    No way to back any currency anymore. So I choose to be backed as is by a bunch of manmade zeros into a computer network.

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    American cheese. Your cheese would gain value over time, because the held amount would diminish in the form of grilled cheese sandwiches!

    Pretty sure that’s how that works.

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      So the more money you have, the more freedom you have?..

      I think it already works like that.

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        No, the more freedom America has, the more value American currency has. Our currency would be backed by freedom and eagle sounds, not the other way around.

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    Other countries declaring war will increase the value of the USD, as buying weapons from us government will decrease amount of money in circulation.

    I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding this, but wouldn’t that decrease the value of the dollar?

    If the US Gov owns less weapons (because they’ve been sold) but the populace has the same number of dollars, then the value of those dollars must be decreased because there are less weapons backing it.

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      Well to get the thing that is backing the dollar, they would have to turn in us dollars that would be taken out of circulation . So a bunch of countries at the same time would get a bunch of USD and turn them in.