Fractional reserve banking & the bitcoin crypto economy

The relationship between monetary economics and cryptocurrency is as yet unclear.  Since the Great Recession of 2008 the world order has been described as operating under a new Keynesian economics.  This paper examines how central banks use fractional reserve banking (FRB) combined with market factors to stimulate or suppress aggregate demand through the money supply, a fundamental Keynesian tenet.  The economic and operational functions of a central bank are, however, viewed through the lens of the Bitcoin crypto economy which has no such centralised structure or mechanisms.  The closest artefact is Bitcoin’s consensus behaviour embodied in a shared algorithm.  It is asked and answered would FRB organically emerge in the Bitcoin crypto economy if cryptocurrency exchanges were to act like fiat currency depository institutions.

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