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 What will replace it? 
 Commodities 
 Gonna be tricky to carry pork bellies or barrels of oil to the store to buy groceries, but I guess we'll do what we have to do! 😂 
 My guess is some kind of crypto. It won't be official but it'll happen anyway.

I used to think gold had an equal shot but the more I thought about it the more I realised it's much much harder for average retailers to accept gold than crypto. 
 Something like the Rentenmark-to-Reichsmark transition seen in Weimar if I had to guess: a currency backed officially by a mix of gold and hard commodities. Maybe crypto ledger technologies will come  in handy to support it.