A US public company can do the same thing in terms of their authorized stock vs their shares outstanding. You can print money without it being backed. This means increasing your 'authorized' as you see fit. Just get approval from the SEC/Finra and your buddies and you're good to go. Now lets talk about other organizations printing money that's not backed by anything e.g. the Fed, QE 1-4, countries with inflationary problems. Cryptocurrency offers far more transparency (as we can see here) and has true global reach. This FUD needs to stop and more effort needs to put into understanding financial engineering and it's importance and relation to software engineering.