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"All these pieces of paper are issued with as much solemnity and authority as, if they were of pure gold or silver; and on every piece a variety of officials, whose duty it is, have to write their names, and to put their seals. And when all is prepared duly, the chief officer deputed by the Kaan smears the Seal entrusted to him with vermilion, and impresses it on the paper, so that the form of the Seal remains printed upon it in red; the Money is then authentic. Anyone forging it would be punished with death. And the Kaan causes every year to be made such a vast quantity of this money, which costs him nothing, that it must equal in amount all the treasure in the world." CHAPTER XXIV. " HOW THE GREAT KAAN CAUSETH THE BARK OF TREES, MADE INTO SOMETHING LIKE PAPER, TO PASS FOR MONEY OVER ALL HIS COUNTRY" Marco Polo
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"The first writers weren't poets, they were accountants."
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Around 1860, a French singer named Mademoiselle Zélie went on a world tour with her brother and two other singers. At a stop at a small island in the South Pacific, where most people didn't use money, the singers agreed to sell tickets in exchange for whatever goods the islanders could provide. The show was a hit. A local chief attended. A sold 816 tickets. Zélie sang five songs from popular operas of the day. in a letter to her aunt, Zélie cataloged her pay for the show: "3 pigs, 23 turkeys, 44 hens, 5000 coconuts, 1200 pineapples, 120 bushels of bananas, 120 pumpkins, 1500 oranges." But the windfall, Zélie wrote, left her with a problem. "What to do with these proceeds?" "I am told that a speculator from a nearby island... Will arrive tomorrow to make cash offers to me and my comrades. in the meantime, to keep our pigs alive, we feed them the pumpkins while the turkeys and chickens eat the bananas and oranges." The Origin of Money by Jacob Goldstein
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They will eventually attempt to crush all centralized "crypto" exchanges. They will be replaced by government regulated, licensed, approved, securities dealers. Your window to buy (and hold) ₿itcoin like you do now, is closing.