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So you got your Bitcoin full node synced and ready. Now what?

Update 2020-02-10: This article is updated with further sources to better reflect its chapter in my book, Money Dethroned.

Paul Einzig, in his work "Primitive Money", details the evolution of fur money in medieval Russia - a land where the inhabitants from a very early period had intertwined the concept of money with their cattle.

Car Nicobar is a rather solitary, tropical island situated between India in the west and Thailand and Myanmar in the east. Paul Einzig, in his work 'Primitive Money', has summarized the documented use of coconuts as currency there. One of these sources is George Whitehead, British Government Agent on the island at the start of the 20th century....

Leaving Africa for the West Indies, it is time to explore sugar as a form of money - something which I briefly did in an earlier article on the subject. The end goal of this article is to try to apply the framework of hard and easy money on some of the rich research conducted and summarized by Stuart B. Schwartz and his fellow sugar historians in ...

Is it creditable to any Government, and particularly a Christian Government, that any portion of its revenue, not to speak of the largest, is raised from such a fearfully destructive source? - Lagos Echo, 1894 [1]

Effective immediately, all new and semi-annual ratings are on hold. This is a decision resulting from a realization that the time I have spent on detailing the history, ecology, technology and centralization of many altcoins are vastly better spent by studying money protocols in general, and Bitcoin properties in particular. I have always applied a...

Update 2020-02-18: This article is updated with further sources to better reflect its chapter in the book, Money Dethroned.

Update 2020-02-18: This article is updated with further sources to better reflect its chapter in the book, Money Dethroned.

Update 2020-02-07: This article is updated with further sources to better reflect its chapter in the book, Money Dethroned.

Update 2020-02-18: This article is updated with further sources to better reflect its chapter in my book, Money Dethroned. It discusses a phenomenon Ibn Battúta observed while still traveling in Mali - in fact, the end-phase of the very dynamics that slowly took the world from primitive monies, to silver- and gold coinage. His observations...