How does Jon know that the dollar Jon received from Mike is a
dollar?
A dollar has specifications that tell you it's a dollar (type of
paper, ink, micro printing, etc)
I don't think the dollar analogy is all that useful. A dollar is backed up
by people with guns, who hunt down and punish counterfeiters, which means
that ordinary people don't have to know how to validate a dollar bill,
because the incidence of forgery is low.
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