“it also challenges beliefs upon which all modern government-currency monopolies rest. It thereby sheds light on contemporary private-sector alternatives to government-issued money, such as digital monies...” I’m going to have to read this book; sounds interesting!
During the industrial revolution, some private firms minted and circulated coins, filling in gaps left by political coinage: http://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=75 … left: New York Merchant's Exchange Bank, United States, 1837 right: Coalbrookdale Iron Works, Shropshire, England, 1792pic.twitter.com/1UwV22zZ8o
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@NickSzabo4 -- please write a book about what money is, has been, and could be (will be), told more through your lens than as straight historical narrative. Thank you! I'll just wait on Amazon and keep refreshing until your book appears. - 1 more reply
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and there were good reasons for ending that practice.pic.twitter.com/OgwJlolTli
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My mother's family lived there. It was indeed remote in 1805. Parliament passed an anti-Truck act which is why you can still insist in being paid in coin if you choose.
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Best part of Crypto currency. No loose change in my pants, couches, car or clanking around in my dryer. Haha. There are tonnes of loose changes lying around in the planet that can be stored and saved in crypto ;)
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What do you mean by dust?
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Tiny pieces of crypto in an account.
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Oh ok. I never new that . Are they difficult to find or access?
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They're just so small no one wants to mess with them.
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Nick, are you available for joining advisory board, or as co-founder of blockchain/cryptocurrency projects?
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コインコレクターです ぜひ 分けてください
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Love your posts nick. the rhymes of history are fascinating. You might like this one from
@TuurDemeesterhttps://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/969537464640704512 …
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Thank you Bitcoin Resident Historian (new name now by the way
). I like how crypto is trying to take us back and forward at the same time. Evolved barter system without relying on trust 
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