I know this is our experience today, but is this true throughout history? Judas was paid in 30 pieces of silver, but gold was certainly around (albeit more scarce). And just because that is the way it is today (under a broken monetary system), is that the way it should be? Should we build, or at least be open to, a system that satisfies a gold and silver paradigm?
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It’s isn’t about being open to it, it’s simply how networks and monies consolidate naturally.
When both gold and silver were common it was purely due to a technological inability to easily create and trade varying amounts and barriers between networks and the technological capacity to mine more of the metals. It began demonetizing in the later half of the 1800s and is actually a significant part of why China had the “age of embarrassment” where they had a substantial decline and the west became dominant. They bet on silver, the west put their chips into gold.