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Early economic systems based on barter required coordination both to connect demand and supply, and to establish value. Together, these features created an opportunity for mutually beneficial exchange. This coordination could be facilitated in an ad hoc manner for simple economic systems. However, as the complexity of the system increased, both in terms of the number of transactions and in terms of the diversity of goods and services that were to be traded, so did the coordination requirements.
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Murty, V.K. (2019). Digital Gold and Cryptocurrency. In: Lakshmanan, V., Gorain, B. (eds) Innovations and Breakthroughs in the Gold and Silver Industries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32549-7_12
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