The common thread - from a sound money perspective - is that wars would not be possible without the ability to print money.

But gold did not substantially reduce intranational conflicts; if anything it was one of the main reasons for the bloody colonization campaigns and the biggest massacres in human history.

This is clearly the downside of money based on a natural resource which is both naturally scarce and limited to certain geographical areas. The geopolitical incentive there is clearly to appropriate such resources with violence in a never ending quest for money and power.

But what if money could be based, rather than on a scarce natural resource, on a mathematically scarce digital asset, that no one controls and that gives no one on the planet an "exorbitant privilege"? A geopolitically neutral digital commodity?

Now, that could change the world.

Continue reading for free my latest article "If Fiat brings War, can Bitcoin bring peace? How Bitcoin can restrain the nations' drive towards war" on my substack link below.

https://andreleblanc.substack.com/p/if-fiat-brings-war-can-bitcoin-bring