He discusses how after the dissolution of the gold standard, money ceased to backed by a real commodity and instead became " token money "-tokens representing debt, though admittedly Polyani says by far the dominant view was that they were tokens of Purchasing power.
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Cryptographers think of the field as originating in the work of Dr David Chaum who invented the cryptographic signature permitted a virtual coin to be signed without the signer seeing the actual coin, and permitted a form of digital token money that offered untraceability.
