NInety One years ago, check out this headline:

From December 28, 1932 in the "The Vancouver Sun"

"'Electric Dollar' to End Depression

A new kind of money, the 'Electric Dollar', with its value based on electrical energy instead of gold was proposed as one way of ending depressions....

Documented here on why Bitcoin, Digital Gold 2023, is way better than Analogue Gold whatever BC:

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