Well worth a read in my opinion:

Medici Money

(Banking, Metaphysics and Art in the Fifteenth-Century Florence)

- by Tim Parks

Topics include:

- family empire

- politics of city, state and church

- intersection: money, power, democracy

- banking and trade

- two currency system

- currency devaluation

It is so weird to me how much of what is written in this book and happened approx. 550years ago resembles some events today.

The question is:

Is the future gonna resemble this kind of events in a potentially hyperbitcoinized world or are they prevented by it?