legal tender
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The Abu Dhabi fund and Binance strengthened the nascent stablecoin by using it as legal tender similar to hard currency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Suddenly I realized — a shock to the system! — you needed legal tender in order to live.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2025
Cash is legal tender in the UK, but businesses are not obliged to serve people who only want to pay with notes and coins.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025
Bitcoiners have come to love the currency’s adoption as legal tender in other countries, and the value of the central coin has become just as responsive to broader macroeconomic conditions as anything else.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2025
One hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ash and smoke.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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