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    Etlase2
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    October 27, 2011, 01:19:20 PM
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    Death, you have a misunderstanding of fractional reserve.

    If I deposit 1 million BTC in a bank, and they have a 10% reserve, they can loan out 900k of that BTC. I still have 1 million BTC. 1.9 million BTC now exists from that 1 million.
    This is the exact same thing that happens with fiat.

    Since there can be no FDIC in bitcoin, people will probably not want to bank with a bank that only keeps a 10% reserve because if there is a bank run, they are forked. But 10% reserve banks will have the highest interest (or however it works in a deflationary economy), so you will have greedy people that will use them. But hey, that's their problem if they can't get paid when the bank goes bankrupt.

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