No, I can't eat #Bitcoin...but:
"Mmoney is called artificial riches, and not the other way around, seeing that a man who abounds in it may still die of hunger; as appears from Aristotle's example of the greedy king, who Ovid calls Midas, who prayed that everything he touched should turn to gold, a mad request which the gods granted, and thus he perished of hunger while awash in gold, as the poets tell.
For money does not directly relieve the necessities of human life, but is an instrument artificially invented for the easier exchange of natural riches.
And it is clear without further proof that coin is very useful to the public community, and convenient, or rather necessary, as Aristotle proves in the fifth book of the Ethics."
Nicholas Oresme, De Moneta
