WTF - the text sounds not as I thought. AI somehow understood my prompt slightly wrong 🤣
Here is the improved version:
* 15th Century: Portuguese traded worthless glass beads for gold in West Africa.
* 21st Century: Cypherpunks traded worthless fiat currency for Bitcoin in Western Europe.
Anyway, local government is so stupid is this context and it bothers me as well that this is not even discussed.