Banks create money, but it's less impressive than it sounds 6 years ago
Would the same principle work for non national currency ? I am thinking specifically of Bitcoin.
Say a bank would accept deposit and issue loan in Bitcoin. We apply the same example as in the article. Someone deposit 100BTC. Another person takes a loan of 10BTC and owns the bank 11BTC. (that would be much bigger value than $100, but the principle is the same)
Would the total number of Bitcoin be higher than before those transactions ? That would break the hard limit on the total number of Bitcoin. My understanding was that hard limit was a key feature of Bitcoin.