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I asked ChatGPT: If God were to create an ideal money for humanity, what form would it take and what would be its properties?

Its response:

If we imagine God creating an ideal money for humanity, it would likely have the following properties—reflecting principles of fairness, stability, and universal access:

1. Universally Accessible

•Everyone could use it regardless of nationality, wealth, or social status.

•No barriers to entry: you wouldn’t need permission from banks or governments.

2. Scarce but Divisible

•Supply would be finite to preserve value over time.

•Divisible into very small units so that both large and tiny transactions are possible.

3. Durable and Permanent

•It would not degrade, rot, or disappear with time.

•Value would persist for centuries without requiring trust in any authority.

4. Transportable and Borderless

•Easily transferable across any distance, instantly if possible.

•Works the same everywhere on Earth (and potentially beyond).

5. Neutral and Trustless

•No single group, government, or elite could manipulate or control it.

•Rules of issuance and supply would be transparent and unchangeable.

6. Stable but Free Market–Based

•Its value would reflect supply and demand, not decrees from rulers.

•Over time, its stability would come from broad adoption and trust.

7. Private but Verifiable

•People could transact without surveillance, yet the system itself would remain auditable and incorruptible.

8. Energy-Rooted or Natural-Law–Anchored

•It would be tied to something fundamental, like energy, mathematics, or nature’s scarcity—so its properties are unforgeable.

9. Resistant to Corruption

•Cannot be counterfeited, debased, or inflated at will.

•Protects savers and workers from hidden theft through money printing.

10. Global Standard of Truth

•Serves as a universal language of value across cultures.

•Creates fairness by aligning incentives: work today is worth the same tomorrow.

In many ways, this description maps almost perfectly onto Bitcoin’s design: fixed supply (21 million), infinite divisibility (sats), borderless transfer, neutrality (no issuer), cryptographic verifiability, durability, and energy-based security.

If God created an ideal money, humanity may already have stumbled into it—or at least something very close.

Tried this prompt from a guest account and got a similar answer, but one that was definitely less geared toward a Bitcoiner.

ChatGPT:

"If God were to create an ideal money for humanity, we can assume this money would be perfectly designed for justice, peace, flourishing, and sustainability—aligning with divine qualities such as omniscience, benevolence, and impartiality. Here's what such a money might look like and the properties it would likely have:

🔹 Core Form of God's Ideal Money:

Non-physical, universally accessible digital currency, deeply integrated with human needs, morality, and nature.

💠 Properties of God's Ideal Money:

1. Intrinsic Fairness

Universal Access: Every human has equal access from birth.

Non-exclusionary: No one can be locked out due to location, status, or lack of technology.

No Bias: Immune to manipulation by powerful entities, governments, or elites.

2. Stable Value

Non-inflationary and non-deflationary: Designed to maintain purchasing power over time.

Tied to real human needs: Anchored to a basket of essentials (e.g. food, shelter, energy) rather than speculation or scarcity.

3. Built-in Moral Feedback

Ethical Governance: Encourages ethical behavior and penalizes exploitation (e.g. theft, corruption, environmental destruction).

Transparent History: Every transaction visible and traceable in a way that ensures accountability, yet preserves dignity and privacy.

Intent-based transactions: System understands the moral context of spending.

4. Scarcity Balanced with Abundance

Enough for All: Designed so every human has what they need, with incentives to contribute to society rather than hoard.

Anti-hoarding Mechanisms: Disincentivizes idle accumulation beyond reasonable use.

5. Zero Transaction Costs

No fees, intermediaries, or delays. Transferring money is instantaneous and effortless across any distance.

6. Decentralized Yet Harmonious

Not controlled by any one entity, yet functions in perfect synchronicity across the world.

A divine algorithm (immutable and incorruptible) maintains consensus, allocation, and fairness.

7. Aligned with Nature

Money that cannot be used to degrade ecosystems.

Encourages stewardship of the Earth and sustainability in all transactions.

8. Time-Aware

Value and utility change in accordance with time—maybe incentivizes patience, long-term thinking, and wise resource use.

Perhaps includes "demurrage" (a small fee for hoarding) to keep circulation healthy.

9. Non-Coercive, Yet Incentive-Driven

Encourages contribution, creativity, and cooperation without forcing participation.

Rewards generosity, mutual aid, education, healing, and innovation.

10. Interpersonal & Communal

Recognizes the relational nature of humanity—could support communal wealth models, shared prosperity, and mutual aid over pure individualism.

🔄 Possible Form:

A divinely governed ledger—a kind of incorruptible, cosmic blockchain.

Quantum-secure, AI-integrated digital units that interface with human intent, context, and ethical systems.

Earned through acts of good, distributed according to need, and circulated to sustain life.

🧭 Philosophical & Theological Overtones:

Echoes ideas from Christian "Jubilee" economics, Islamic finance (which forbids interest/usury), Buddhist minimalism, and indigenous gift economies.

Reflects divine justice (not equality in quantity, but sufficiency in essence).

Operates from love, sufficiency, sustainability, not greed, fear, or scarcity.

🧩 Final Thought:

Such a money wouldn’t just be a medium of exchange—it would be a moral operating system. It would reflect the divine desire for human flourishing, equitable stewardship of the Earth, and harmonious coexistence."

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The "stable value" bit is hilarious.

A money can't have stable value. That's a dead economy in stasis.

Gold has a stable value.

I bet if you ask it a bunch of questions about Bitcoin and then ask it about perfect money again, it'll tell you what you want to hear. These LLMs are also training on their users. What could possibly go wrong?