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Fungibility means every single unit is identical

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You don't care which specific serial number is on the bill you get as change, because money is heavily fungible. This concept means that individual units of a good are entirely interchangeable. If you lend someone a dollar, you don't demand that exact same physical piece of paper back. Any dollar will do, making mass transactions possible.

Fungibility means every single unit is identical
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