"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."

- Alan Greenspan, 1966

"...suspend temporarily the convertability of the dollar into gold..."

- Richard Nixon ends the gold standard, 1971

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."

- Satoshi Nakamoto mines the Genesis Block, 2009