TheGuySwann on Nostr: I didn’t say gold was still money. It stopped being that in the early 1900s as the ...
I didn’t say gold was still money. It stopped being that in the early 1900s as the environment in which money was needed, became one where gold could provide none of its assurances or characteristics. (A token for gold on a computer screen is no less reliant on trust than any point on any spreadsheet on a random google server)
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