On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed, sending global financial markets into panic. The Federal Reserve’s response was astonishing—it launched a near-magical operation: Quantitative Easing (QE). Within years, the Fed’s balance sheet ballooned from 800billionto4.5 trillion, creating trillions of dollars out of thin air.

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, a mysterious figure using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto was testing a new monetary system on internet forums. On January 3, 2009, Nakamoto embedded a message in Bitcoin’s genesis block:

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."

This was a declaration of war—Bitcoin’s birth was a mockery of the traditional financial system.

By 2022, another collapse occurred. Bitcoin plummeted from 69,000to16,000, wiping out countless speculators. The Fed intervened again, but this time, its enemy wasn’t banks—it was cryptocurrencies.

These two seemingly unrelated crises point to the same question: What determines the value of money?

Throughout history, money has taken many forms—shells, gold, paper, digital codes. But no matter the form, money must have an "anchor", a basis for its issuance. Without one, it’s like a skyscraper without a foundation—destined to collapse.

The anchors of traditional money have undergone three major shifts:

1. The Gold Anchor (19th Century–1971):

• Your $1 could be exchanged for 0.888 grams of gold. The Fed had to hold enough gold to print money.

• In 1971, Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold, ushering in the "credit era"—money’s value was no longer backed by gold but by government promises.

2. The Debt Anchor (1971–2008):

• Modern money is debt. The dollar no longer relies on gold but on U.S. Treasuries—the Fed prints money to buy Treasuries, and the government repays with taxes, forming a closed loop.

• After 2008, this system began to unravel. Central banks stopped buying just Treasuries—they bought corporate bonds, ETFs, even junk bonds. The "anchor" became increasingly vague.

3. The Algorithmic Anchor (2009–Present):

• Bitcoin’s anchor is mathematics—a fixed supply of 21 million coins, coded and immutable.

• But the 2022 crash proved that even "decentralized money" isn’t immune to liquidity crises and market manipulation.

In 2020, former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan said cryptically:

"Bitcoin reminds me of gold in its heyday, but gold is at least physical. Bitcoin is just a string of code."

This reveals the fear of financial elites—not Bitcoin’s price volatility, but its philosophy:

• Fed’s money = Infinite issuance, controlled by central banks.

• Bitcoin’s money = Fixed supply, controlled by code.

This is a war over monetary issuance rights.

In 2023, global central banks struck back:

• China launched the digital yuan, with every transaction traceable.

• The Fed secretly studied the "digital dollar", trying to reclaim crypto territory.

• The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) warned: "Stablecoins threaten financial stability."

But Bitcoin believers held firm. They believe the future monetary system has only two possibilities:

• Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) → Totalitarian money, mass surveillance.

• Bitcoin & Decentralized Money → Free money, censorship-resistant.

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London’s Vaults and the World’s Shackles

In 1815, Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo. While Europe cleared the rubble, City of London bankers smelled wealth. Rothschild’s carrier pigeons brought news faster than the British army. Nathan Rothschild dumped British bonds, creating panic, then bought them at rock-bottom prices. Overnight, the Jewish banking family controlled Britain’s economic lifeline.

But real power lay not in bonds, but in gold.

In 1816, Britain passed the Gold Standard Act, legally binding the pound to 7.322 grams of pure gold—the first time in history. London bankers laughed—they controlled not pounds, but global gold flows.

The "Perfect Lie" of the Gold Standard

The gold standard seemed fair:

• You needed gold to print money.

• Paper notes were receipts for gold, redeemable anytime.

But reality was dirtier:

1. Bankers’ "Alchemy"

   • The Bank of England could issue 100% pounds with just 20% gold reserves.

   • 80% of money was "created out of thin air" as debt.

2. Colonial Gold Plunder

   • Britain enforced pound settlements in India and South Africa while looting gold mines.

   • Indian farmers exchanged grain for paper notes, unaware there wasn’t enough gold backing them.

3. Rothschild’s "Gold Cartel"

   • The family controlled gold pricing in London, Paris, and Frankfurt.

   • In 1869, they shorted silver, destroyed the U.S. silver standard, and forced the world onto gold.

1929: The Death Sentence for the Gold Standard

On October 24, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashed. Few knew the real culprit wasn’t speculators—it was the gold standard.

• Fed’s Folly: To protect gold reserves, it hiked interest rates, causing mass bankruptcies.

• France’s "Gold Hoarding": Paris suddenly demanded gold repayment for war debts, draining global liquidity.

• Hoover’s Despair: In 1931, he begged France to halt gold demands but was ignored.

In 1933, Roosevelt confiscated U.S. citizens’ gold by executive order, fining violators 10,000(equivalentto200,000 today). Overnight, the dollar devalued 40%, robbing Americans of their savings.

But who really won?

• J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller cartels transferred gold to Switzerland in advance.

• The Bank of England snapped up global gold at fire-sale prices, cementing London’s financial dominance.

The End of the Golden Age: Bankers’ "Deicide"

In 1944, the Bretton Woods Conference convened. Ostensibly, allies debated the postwar monetary system. In reality, it was a carve-up by British and American bankers.

• Keynes’s Proposal: Create a super-sovereign currency, "Bancor," rejected by the U.S.

• U.S. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau’s Smirk: "The future currency will only be the dollar."

But the dollar’s gold standard was a fraud. On August 15, 1971, Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold—ushering in the "anchorless era" of human currency.

Ironically, when the public demanded, "Why is the dollar valuable?" Fed Chair Burns replied dismissively:

"The dollar has value because foreigners believe it has value."

Bretton Woods: The Dollar’s "Pseudo-Gold Standard"

1944’s Backroom Deal: The Dollar’s Coronation

In July 1944, the Bretton Woods town in New Hampshire was heavily guarded. Delegates from 44 nations gathered to rebuild the postwar monetary order—or decide who would dominate global finance.

• Britain’s Keynes proposed a revolutionary "Bancor," issued by an international clearing union. But U.S. delegate Harry Dexter White (later exposed as a Soviet spy) sneered: "The world needs only one currency—the dollar."

After two weeks of clashes, the U.S., with 70% of global gold reserves and the only unscathed economy, forced through an unprecedented agreement:

• Dollar tied to gold ($35/ounce).

• Other currencies tied to the dollar.

• IMF established, with U.S. veto power.

Keynes fumed: "This isn’t a monetary system—it’s dollar imperialism!"

De Gaulle’s Gold Uprising: Exposing the U.S. Scam

In 1965, French President de Gaulle did something that enraged Washington—he sent warships to the New York Fed to demand France’s gold reserves.

"The dollar has been printed recklessly!" de Gaulle waved a dollar bill in a TV speech. "America exchanges our goods for ‘pieces of paper’ but refuses gold!"

The numbers were shocking:

• 1944: U.S. gold reserves = 20,000 tons (70% global).

• 1970: U.S. gold reserves = 8,000 tons; European vaults overflowed with dollars.

The U.S. played a game of "empty-handed swindling":

• Flooded Europe with dollars via the Marshall Plan.

• Paid trade deficits (oil, arms) in dollars.

• When foreign governments demanded gold, pressured them with "threats to financial stability."

August 15, 1971: Nixon’s "Monetary Coup"

In summer 1971, Britain demanded $3 billion in gold. Nixon’s economic advisor Paul Volcker (later Fed Chair) warned: "If we pay, U.S. gold reserves will empty in three months."

On August 15, Nixon announced in a national TV address:

"The U.S. will suspend dollar-gold convertibility."

The "Nixon Shock."

Global markets collapsed. Gold soared from 35to800.

• Bank of Japan governor knelt, weeping: "Our dollar reserves are worthless!"

• Saudi king secretly contacted de Gaulle: "Can we settle oil in francs?"

Petrodollar: America’s New "Anchor"

In 1973, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia struck a secret deal:

• All Saudi oil sales must be in dollars.

• The U.S. provides military protection to the Saudi royal family.

• Excess dollars recycle into U.S. Treasuries.

This birthed the "petrodollar" system—the dollar no longer needed gold but black gold (oil) as its new anchor.

Ironically, the Keynesians who opposed the gold standard now cheered: "The era of flexible credit money has finally arrived!" They didn’t realize this handed monetary issuance power entirely to the Fed’s printing press.

After the 2008 financial crisis, Fed Chair Bernanke did something unprecedented—he opened a computer, typed a few zeros, and created $1.7 trillion out of thin air to buy toxic bank assets.

"Where does this money come from?" a reporter asked.
Bernanke smiled: "We just issue credit via electronic bookkeeping."

This is the truth of the modern monetary system:

• Money isn’t printed—it’s "lent."

• Every dollar in circulation corresponds to a dollar of debt.

• The Fed doesn’t need gold—just a keyboard.

"Too Big to Fail" Banks: Guardians of the Debt Black Hole

In 2012, JPMorgan lost $6.2 billion in derivatives gambling. CEO Jamie Dimon called Treasury, and the next day, the Fed launched "emergency liquidity support."

Ironically, that same year, a U.S. college student committed suicide over unpaid loans. Treasury’s response: "Individual debt is your own responsibility."

The unspoken rules of modern finance are stark:

• Bank debt = Taxpayer bailout (U.S. spent $23 trillion post-2008).

• Personal debt = Credit ruin (U.S. student loans hit $1.7 trillion in 2023).

A BIS confidential report revealed: Global debt-to-GDP ratio hit 356%, yet central banks keep printing to delay crisis.

While the West obsessed over debt monetization, China invented a stealthier anchor:

Anchor 1: Foreign Exchange Reserves

• After joining the WTO in 2001, China’s mandatory forex settlement converted export dollars into RMB base money.

• At its peak, every $1 inflow led to 6.2 RMB issuance.

Anchor 2: Land Finance

• Local governments earned revenue from land sales; banks issued loans secured by land.

• In 2021, China’s M2 was 2.2x GDP—a global anomaly.

But these anchors are loosening:

• 2023: Forex reserves fell by $200 billion.

• Land auction failure rate exceeded 30%.

• 2016: Bank of Japan owned 80% of the ETF market.

• 2019: Germany issued the world’s first 30-year negative-yield bond.

• 2020: Fed balance sheet surpassed $8 trillion...

These surreal realities reveal debt monetization has hit its limits. When asked, "How will you exit QE?" BOJ Governor Kuroda fell silent, then said:

"We haven’t considered that."

The Ultimate Question: How Far Can Anchorless Money Go?

In March 2023, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in 48 hours. Investigations found it invested deposits in "risk-free" U.S. Treasuries but lost $25 billion due to Fed rate hikes.

This exposed modern money’s Achilles’ heel:

• Dollar’s anchor = U.S. Treasuries.

• Treasuries’ anchor = Tax capacity.

• Tax’s anchor = Real economy.

With U.S. manufacturing at 11% of GDP, how much credit remains? As Soros warned:

"The global monetary system is sliding from ‘credit economy’ to ‘fraud economy.’"

October 31, 2008: An Email That Changed the World

As Lehman’s collapse rocked global markets, a mystery figure—or group—using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto posted a paper to a cryptography mailing list:

"Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"

This 9-page paper, lacking grandiloquence, concealed a bomb capable of upending financial order:

"What we need is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust."

This struck at modern finance’s core—central banks’ monopoly on money issuance.

Three Decades of Cypherpunk Dormancy

Nakamoto wasn’t a sudden arrival. His ideas trace back to:

• 1992: Mathematician Timothy May founded the "Cypherpunks," declaring:
  "States can’t control crypto forever—this is a war of technology against tyranny."

• 1998: Chinese engineer Wei Dai proposed B-money, the first decentralized currency concept.

• 2005: Computer scientist Nick Szabo invented Bit Gold but couldn’t solve the "double-spending" problem.

All failed due to one fatal flaw: How to prevent spending the same money twice?

Until Nakamoto solved it with blockchain—

The Genesis Block’s Hidden Code

At 18:15:05 on January 3, 2009, Bitcoin’s first block (height 0) was mined. Nakamoto permanently embedded that day’s Times headline:

"Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."

This was no coincidence.

• Timing: Coincided with Britain’s second bank bailout.

• Metaphor: Traditional finance was rotten—it needed to be rebuilt.

Early miner Hal Finney (who died of ALS in 2014) recalled:
"Nakamoto felt like someone from Eastern Europe who’d witnessed hyperinflation."

Dark Economics: Bitcoin’s "Anti-Central Bank" DNA

Every Bitcoin design mocks the current monetary system:

On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo bought 2 pizzas for 10,000 BTC (now worth >$600 million). This first Bitcoin transaction inadvertently revealed Nakamoto’s ultimate goal:

Not to create "digital gold," but to build a "parallel financial system beyond central bank control."

Nakamoto’s Final Warning Before Disappearing

On April 23, 2011, Nakamoto’s last email to developers read:

"I’ve moved on to other things... Gavin [Bitcoin Core developer] now has full control over the code."

Then vanished.

Conspiracy theories abounded:

• NSA agent? (Bitcoin’s algorithm relies on NSA-developed SHA-256.)

• Assassinated? (Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist "committed suicide" after FBI investigation in 2013.)

• AI? (Code style suggests non-human authorship.)

But more likely—he/they completed their mission. As the genesis block’s code implied:

Money shouldn’t be a toy of power—it should be a crystallization of mathematics.

Winter 2013: A 19-Year-Old’s Fury

In his dorm at the University of Waterloo, 19-year-old Vitalik Buterin (Russian-Canadian) angrily closed a Bitcoin forum page.

His proposal—"Bitcoin should support more applications"—was ridiculed by core developers:
"Bitcoin just needs to be digital gold—don’t complicate things!"

This teenager did what geeks do best—he wrote code to overthrow the old system.
In November 2013, he released the Ethereum White Paper, opening with a provocative line:

"Bitcoin is a calculator—we’re building a computer."

Smart Contracts: A "Genetically Modified" Revolution in Money

Ethereum’s core innovation was a dangerous yet captivating concept—smart contracts.

• Traditional money: Only for payment (e.g., Bitcoin transfers).

• Genetically modified money: Programmable (e.g., "auto-repay loan + invest when salary arrives").

2016 Real-World Case:
A German company issued bonds via Ethereum with a clause:
"If stock price falls below €5, automatically trigger debt-to-equity conversion."

No lawyers, no courts—code is law.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon panicked:
"This is 100x more dangerous than Bitcoin—it’s dismantling the entire financial intermediary system!"

The DAO Hack: A $60 Million "Code Jailbreak"

On June 17, 2016, Ethereum faced an epic crisis.

The DAO, a decentralized fund managing 150millioninETH,washackedviaasmartcontractflaw,losing3.6millionETH(60 million).

The absurdity:

• Technically, it wasn’t theft (the hacker followed contract rules).

• Community proposed "transaction rollback" (equivalent to rewriting blockchain history).

Ethereum hard-forked into ETH and ETC. This moral dilemma exposed decentralized worlds’ fatal flaw:
When code conflicts with humanity, who has the power to hit "undo"?

DeFi (Decentralized Finance): Wall Street’s Nightmare

In summer 2020, an Ethereum app called Uniswap quietly launched. With no corporate entity, it achieved:

• 24/7 automated market-making (replacing Goldman Sachs traders).

• 0-human-review loans (replacing Citi’s risk departments).

• 1000% annualized liquidity mining (mocking the Fed’s 0% rates).

Traditional finance’s fig leaf was torn off:

In September 2021, U.S. SEC Chair Gary Gensler admitted:
"DeFi could make securities laws obsolete."

Vitalik’s Ambition: Ethereum’s "Ultimate Weapon"

On September 15, 2022, Ethereum completed "The Merge," switching from energy-guzzling Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS).

• Energy use cut by 99.95% (debunking "Bitcoin isn’t green" claims).

• Stake ETH to "print money" (4-12% annual yield, rivaling Treasuries).

But the scariest detail: The Ethereum Foundation holds over $10 billion in ETH.

This raises a soul-searching question:
When a "decentralized" project’s founding team holds more monetary issuance power than the Fed,
have we escaped centralization or created new gods?

2014’s Magic: Dollars Appearing Out of Thin Air

In 2014, obscure Hong Kong firm Tether Limited launched USDT, claiming each token was backed by $1.

But the mysteries:

• No bank publicly admitted holding its funds.

• Audit reports remained vague.

• Founders overlapped heavily with Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex.

This resembled the wildcat banknote chaos before Britain’s 1844 Bank Charter Act—except this time, the dollar was on the blockchain.

The "Fractional Reserve" Crypto Version

In 2021, the New York Attorney General’s office exposed:

• Only 2.9% of Tether’s reserves were cash; over 65% were commercial paper (short-term corporate debt).

Even more shocking:

• Most commercial paper came from Chinese real estate firms (Evergrande’s 2021 collapse caused USDT to briefly de-peg).

• Bitfinex used $850 million in client funds to plug Tether’s hole.

This revealed a dark reality:
USDT essentially uses crypto investors’ money
to issue "shadow loans" to high-risk enterprises!

The Fed’s "Trojan Horse"

After TerraUSD (UST) collapsed in 2022, people discovered:

But the paradox:

• The U.S. Treasury investigated USDT multiple times but never shut it down.

• USDT’s daily trading volume exceeds $60 billion (70% of all crypto trading).

Former CFTC Chair Christopher Giancarlo revealed:
"Some ‘compliant stablecoins’ may be test beds for CBDCs."

2023: Stablecoins’ "Nuclear Button" Moment

In March 2023, SVB’s collapse caused USDC (the second-largest stablecoin) to briefly de-peg.

• Circle admitted $3.3 billion in reserves were trapped in SVB.

• USDC price plunged to $0.87, triggering a crypto market crash.

This crisis exposed stablecoins’ fatal flaw:
They’re never truly "decentralized"—
they just swap dependence on central banks for dependence on commercial banks like JPMorgan.

The Digital Yuan’s "Dimensionality Reduction" Attack

In September 2023, China’s digital yuan cross-border payment system launched, offering:

• Zero-fee currency swaps (challenging USDT’s cross-border remittance business).

• Traceable but anonymous transactions (more regulatory-friendly than Bitcoin).

A BIS report revealed:

• 83% of central banks are developing CBDCs,

• Main motive: curbing private stablecoins.

This signals the future monetary war’s main battlefield:
Not Bitcoin vs. dollar,
but USDT-style private stablecoins vs. national CBDCs.

2024 Black Swan: Sovereign Debt Default Dominoes

In January 2024, the Bank of Japan abruptly abandoned yield curve control (YCC), sending its 10-year bond yield soaring to 2%. This tipped the first domino:

• Italian bonds dumped (debt/GDP = 150%).

• U.S. corporate bond ETFs plunged 7% in a day (junk bond yields topped 12%).

• U.K. pension funds faced margin calls again.

The Institute of International Finance (IIF) warned urgently:
"Global sovereign debt crisis has spread from emerging markets to developed nations."

This crisis’s roots trace back to 2008—central banks delayed it with $14 trillion in QE but worsened the debt tumor.

The Goldbugs’ Last Stand

In March 2024, hedge fund titan Paul Singer and Saudi’s sovereign fund launched the largest gold acquisition in history:

• Secretly bought 300 tons of physical gold (10% of global annual output).

• Launched "GLD-C," a gold-backed stablecoin (1 token = 1g London vault gold).

In his letter to investors, Singer wrote:
"When central banks start dumping each other’s debt,
only gold is the ultimate settlement tool."

Meanwhile, Bitcoin extremists held a secret conference in El Salvador, plotting:

• Building a decentralized sovereign debt market (issuing bonds collateralized by BTC).

• Developing quantum-resistant privacy coins (to counter government blockchain surveillance).

CBDCs’ "Orwellian" Nightmare

In June 2024, Nigeria erupted in nationwide protests—the government mandated eNaira and declared:

• Cash transactions illegal.

• Citizens not using CBDCs ineligible for fuel subsidies.

The IMF hailed this as a "success case" and recommended Egypt, Pakistan follow suit.

Scarier technical details:

• China’s digital yuan can set "spending ranges" (e.g., poverty relief funds only buy rice, flour, oil).

• EU’s digital euro proposal includes "negative interest rates to penalize savings."

Former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh warned:
"CBDCs will be history’s most powerful social control tool—
100x scarier than ID cards or credit scores."

Ordinary People’s Survival Rules

In this monetary reset, asset class performances shocked:

Survival strategies polarized:

• Singapore family offices: Hold BTC + gold + Swiss private bank accounts.

• U.S. middle class: Stockpile ammo, canned food, medicine (2024 Walmart empty shelves photos went viral).

2030 Ultimate Prediction: What Lies at Money’s End?

When a Nobel laureate in economics, Paul Krugman, was asked, "Which currency will win in the future?" he gave a shocking answer:

"Maybe in-game currency—like Genshin Impact’s Primogems.
After all, global gamers already outnumber central bank currency users."

This isn’t entirely absurd:

• Tencent’s Q-coin has a grey economy circulation value exceeding $10 billion in China.

• Musk’s X platform is testing "tipping tokens."

The endgame of monetary evolution may be:
No need for an "anchor," as humanity returns to tribal economies based on attention/credit.

History’s Irony: We’ve Come Full Circle

In 1971, when Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold, economist Milton Friedman cheered:
"Money is finally freed from the barbaric metal shackles!"

Half a century later, we see:

• Bitcoin extremists bury cold wallets at El Salvador’s volcanoes, like medieval monks guarding vaults.

• Fed officials secretly study embedding blockchain into the digital dollar but publicly insist "crypto is a scam."

• African farmers buy Ukrainian wheat with USDT while both nations’ fiat currencies collapse under sanctions.

Humanity’s quest for money resembles a lost traveler in a desert—
thinking they’re marching toward an oasis,
only to return to their original footprints.

AI and Money: The Final Transfer of Power?

In 2024, ChatGPT’s financial derivative AutoTrader-7 demonstrated terrifying capabilities:

• Predicting Fed rate decisions 12 hours early by analyzing officials’ microexpressions.

• Shorting national currencies with "too high CBDC social scores."

When asked about the "ideal monetary system," it replied:
"The optimal solution is algorithmically adjusted ‘carbon credit coins.’
Human carbon emissions rights are the best anchor."

This hints at the most likely future scenario:

• AI takes over money issuance (adjusting supply based on real-time economic data).

• Humans become "credit miners" (mining via eco/social behaviors).

• The last rebels retreat to privacy coins and barter.

A confidential report from Swiss private bank EFG revealed:
"Since 2023, ultra-high-net-worth clients allocate 11% of assets on average to ‘AI-resistant currencies’ (e.g., Monero, physical platinum)."

The Essence of Money: A Quantum State of Collective Hallucination

Looking back at monetary history, a paradoxical pattern emerges:

Yale professor Chen Zhiwu declared:
"Money’s essence isn’t value storage—
it’s human faith that ‘others will accept it.’"

When Gen Z on TikTok uses Bilibili coins for cross-border代购, when Russia bypasses SWIFT with Bitcoin + gold, we finally understand:

The real "anchor" is never in metal or code—
it’s in the collective will of a billion people clicking "confirm transaction."

Final Advice for Doomsday Survivors

If the 2030 monetary war erupts, remember three iron laws:

1. Don’t迷信 any "absolutely safe" asset

   • Bitcoin may be cracked by quantum computers.

   • Gold may face "synthetic precious metal" competition.

   • Real estate may devalue due to climate migration.

2. Master at least three payment system survival skills

   • Cryptocurrency (censorship-resistant).

   • Barter (end-of-days hard currency).

   • Cross-border social networks (Asia’s "guanxi economy" model).

3. Beware the gentlest tyranny—convenience

   • When CBDCs lure users with "scan code for red packets,"

   • When brain-machine interfaces promise "thought payment with no fees,"

   • That’s the start of new monetary slavery.

Final Conjecture: Will Money Disappear?

On Lake Titicaca’s shores in the Andes, indigenous tribes still use potato starch blocks as debt tokens. These "currencies" have no interest rates, need no blockchain, and their shelf life syncs with potato harvest cycles.

Perhaps as anthropologist David Graeber argued in Debt: The First 5000 Years:
"Money was never a tool naturally born from markets—
it’s the scar of eternal power vs. resistance struggles."

When a solar flare one day destroys all electronic ledgers,
we’ll finally remember—
money’s most primitive anchor
is merely human beings gazing at each other’s promises.