Just revelling in Nick Szabo’s awesome essay blog, Unenumerated.
The world’s oldest gold artifact – a small bead from the lower Danube river basin (4,600-4,500 BC). [Source]
My favorite essays so far:
- Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things
“When paper debt-money reaches the West, with bills of exchange to send money across hostile lands and later bank notes representing vaults hopefully full of gold ..”
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- Money, blockchains, and social scalability
- The dawn of trustworthy computing
If you know of any other blogs of this caliber, please post a comment.