The strength of a currency has nothing to do with the issuing body's military and diplomatic power. What jellomizer was saying was that while the printing of the US dollar is controlled by a government institution that could print arbitrary amounts of money, bitcoins cannot be arbitrarily created.
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The strength of a currency has nothing to do with the issuing body's military and diplomatic power. What jellomizer was saying was that while the printing of the US dollar is controlled by a government institution that could print arbitrary amounts of money, bitcoins cannot be arbitrarily created.