Bitcoin: the first undebasable money.

History shows humans have always found a way to debase or dilute the money of the day: finding more cowrie shells, more rai stones, more glass beads, clipping coins, mining more gold, melting non-monetary gold, paper printing, plus many more examples.

Bitcoin is a monumental, civilisational milestone because, for the first time in human history, it credibly enforces an undebasable money supply. In other words, an absolutely scarce money supply.

Debase the money = Debase the people

Undebasable money = Undebasable people.

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You're missing the best example- look up how romans did it

Coin clipping, no ?

I always think of coin chipping as what individuals did to extract gold out of the coins (its why coins have created edges)

Rome straight up melted the coins down and mixed in 50% copper and othe common metals to double the supply

Interesting, didn’t know that !