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 event ownership can actually be multiple, schnorr signatures can be aggregated... just that there is only one pubkey field, it would just be a special variant of the p tag to add cosigners, though i'm not sure what the point of such is, corporate accounts? 
 Kinda hard to become a unit of account when you haven’t even fully monetized … 🤦‍♂️ 
 maybe so but we have post 1971 dollars now which collapsed thus the new one, and before that it collapsed leading to the gold confiscation, and so on and so on bank run da de da

it all looks rosy right now but the fundamentals of money being used as an instrument of fraud by ruling class inherently causes it to eventually fail and people revert to other things, like the notgeld of weimar germany

except when it happens this time, bitcoin is a lot more ready to replace it completely 
 fiat as a technology has a history of around 600 years if you count the beginning as the chinese invention of bank notes and the history of commodity currencies is much longer and persists in the way that people prefer cash, even with the incredible amounts of resources being diverted to push people onto electronic payment networks 

those electronic payment networks, and the CBDCs they want to replace them with, are going to have problems with downtime, and the more people's weeeks get ruined the more interested they become in networks that don't have downtime caused by human error

this is how technology advances, and it's inevitable