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You do not really need a competing currency as anything can be a store of value eg cigarettes or cars that is not the currency. But dollars are widely available globally and plenty fit in a planeload of $100 bills. I was in Brazil when they had around 40% a month inflation and you could buy dollars on any street corner and the black market rate was broadcast every day on the TV news.


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