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Topic
Board Economics
Re: Fractional-reserve banking in Bitcoins - nothing prevents it!
by
Vinnie
on 26/06/2011, 06:29:59 UTC
In addition to what Adam said, the bank would likely be issuing a bitcoin backed note or secondary digital currency. So they would either issue the loan in the form of BTC and pay their original depositor his withdrawals in bitcoin backed notes, or issue the loan in the form of bitcoin backed notes and pay the original depositor in his original BTC.