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The ink spots.https://t.co/eJJnlWpNA9 https://t.co/LlqrGB3zGv
I am thinking weird thoughts about a game called fallout 3 that became a cultural touchstone and impregnated that song into the zeitgeist. https://t.co/baC1vGoxDBhttps://t.co/wY9SyxNYXw
A touchstone was a piece of slate or other dark stone that you would rub a metal on to see if it was real. A 'cultural touchstone' is a metaphor based on the usages of that, originating from Matthew Arnold's “The Study of Poetry" https://t.co/4JXED1TFgahttps://t.co/4x3TTxSbhZ
Technically speaking this is wrong. Most early gold was actually electrum (A silver/gold fusion). Tho there are some indications Ancient Egyptians may've had a glass smelting process (to separate out gold) that rivaled our modern methods way earlier than we give them credit for. https://t.co/BSngw4D4LS https://t.co/Ser0AQ7KhA
We could perhaps call cryptocurrency's blockchain hashes as 'touchstones'. It actually meets both of the definitions because we use it them as historical artifacts to compare against, as a way to tracking value and verify authenticity.Its a pun.https://t.co/Y46PUL0Ecg
I described contract law to my little brother to explain the point of Eth vs BTC.I am a no-coiner because I am poor, but that doesn't mean I don't understand the industry. Spent some time working in it.https://t.co/1Eshx3eeTLhttps://t.co/q2aqnBF3V3
Cryptocurrency is fascinating.https://t.co/0NYgsZdKPr
I just realized I was talking to my best freind about hypothetical self-running smart contract based vending machines (that take over the world) at roughtly the same time vitalik started working with mastercoin. https://t.co/zKeh5jTBpKget out of my head lain. https://t.co/tGkyVxk78Y
I write poetry about cryptocurrency for fun.Here's an old haiku, complete with a kigo,https://t.co/PVqgSaMJWXTulips blossoming,Will this be a chance to grow?Winter is coming.https://t.co/EuiaPCDByr https://t.co/SLEIDFgJtD
I know things. I have been honing my prediction horizon.https://t.co/eHFWSnESHu
I need money.https://t.co/EqZ31GJW2g
I am a high risk investment. I don't care if I die.https://t.co/76jMw6Qj4F
Still my direction. But I'm looking at it like an experienced poker player -> making moves that optimize for all cases.Buying a tool set to build out some projects for my job, but making sure that they'd fit on the back of a hypothetical bike trailer.https://t.co/xDFmOYLKgH
The first bitcoin faucet didn't get posted until June 2010 https://t.co/prk8JPcLTvAbout a month later"July 12th Bitcoin exchange rate increases 10 times in ten days, from 0.008 USD per BTC to 0.08 USD per BTC." https://t.co/EfKAhTL41gIt's amazing.
Its really fascinating to study how early adoption proceeded for other currencies https://t.co/zJVAawUqOc particularly around trusting it was worth something.
Tally stick based contracts can be construed as ways to secure trust dynamics of debt. https://t.co/MhRgsIDRm7Romans may have used wax, "tabula rasa" referencing erasing logs of debt(?) & "mensarii" were responsible for testing and distributing currency.https://t.co/EJo1wJKBHu
Apparently these accountants were lost at some point in Rome's history due to changes by the government leading to inflationary currency.https://t.co/I7wnKKiToZ
It's fun to explore the physical manifestations of contracts and currency. A study just came out that explored how lawyers used sheepskin for contracts in Britain because modifying it would damage the material due to layers of fat below the skin.https://t.co/cc1XRvBonm
"are based on explicit written contracts. Insurance, a bank account, a government bond, a corporate share, a mortgage agreement [...] and the bullas of Mesopotamia are the very first archaeological evidence that written contracts existed."https://t.co/Xk7k3CMTx1
I bet that some of the romans used their wax tablets to make Impressions of currency for recording purposes. This is basically a private currency's impression being recorded using a wax seal, but with clay, like tally stick based contract logging.
I also bet this is wrong:"example, every freeborn male, before reaching maturity, wore a bulla, a locket hung around the neck, as an apotropaic device, often containing a representation of a phallus, but none would have considered such a thing magical." https://t.co/r6jwdiUQIY
Speculative Hunch: Baculums were used as tally sticks like other ancient bones, and the phallic symbolism is a holdover meme from when Rome recognized manhood by harvesting a wolf dick-bone. https://t.co/nj2ZvhDiri
It's really hard to fake you killed a wolf. A dick-bone to secure your land? I could see how a costly signal about rights to territory by visible use of force could evolve into killing pet dogs as a status signal eventually evolving into bullas used to mark things as unique seal.
This translates into the rituals of the native American's use of bear claws.Does anyone know if Ancient tribes would consume bear dick-bones or eat their bile as part of the 'ritual' processes associated with bears?https://t.co/ufQBLXt9SI https://t.co/ze1Uz1wDX9
Bears can heal wounds, you say? Those Native Americans sure did believe some funny things /shttps://t.co/C0rhMSIOgJ
I will manufacture POGs if you pay me enough.https://t.co/oV5vO90naP
"It was sort of the sense we were gonna change the world.We were gonna give people more control over their money. We had all these ideas about getting rid of central banks, and creating a new currency.We never quite got to the Bitcoin stage of it..."https://t.co/EeUJwsKJzl
Gift economies of scale.https://t.co/CCkhOK37MA
I've built machines in Minecraft that allow you to safely trade with a third party without trusting them. They're surprisingly easy to make. https://t.co/vqdHzMkq8s
Some really compact ones can be built.https://t.co/jH4b6A06hh
Someone implemented a fiat currency system using signed books in Minecraft.https://t.co/WmAAAQUdjQ
If you are the admin of a Minecraft server, you can implement spawn protection, allowing you to build a fully functional bank. No plugins required.https://t.co/ibmnhC7OS2
Something I'd love to see is combining the bank keycard mechanisms with a combination lock based on item frames.Going to go see if I can get some Shulker Boxes and use this to make a more compact storage system.https://t.co/Pl0yWNDVmJ
"Diamond-Dybvig model provides an example of an economic game with more than one Nash equilibrium, where it is logical for individual depositors to engage in a bank run once they suspect one might start, even though that run will cause [...] collapse."https://t.co/4XCiCsj755
I use mushroom stew as a currency. https://t.co/DinOETTDuL
You can implement complex trades via a sort of proof-of-stake mechanism using diamonds as collateral. You both put in diamonds into machine, which then shows each other the goods in schulkers. At any time the other party can burn both party's diamonds by dropping them into lava.
"Scripophily" -> "is the study and collection of stocks and Bonds. It is an area of collecting due to both the inherent beauty of some historical documents as well as the interesting historical context of each document. "https://t.co/QIZplm5o6LIs that like stamp collecting?
I wonder if anyone has a large collection of dog penis bones from the roman era. I'd love to see how they were tallied.https://t.co/lWnZGwvFJQ
Exploration of 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭's use of electrum in 640 BC. Frame nature of tokenization processes & how 'value' can stem from social agreements.This has parallels with how the value of a penny in copper differs from it's value as money.https://t.co/KECkc1uj9Ahttps://t.co/Ij3VmIIevJ
Something fun I used to do while playing Skyrim was install the "Immersive Jewelry" mod and the "Exchange Currency" mod. They worked together to create prototype bank note system because the weight of the septims was set to non-zero.https://t.co/zB56cfikwW
You could get rich enough to make Lydia unable to run by filling her up with gold coins, lmao.https://t.co/Tk699vGQH5
Banknotes were basically IOUs turned into state sanctioned meme currency. I will not be taking questions.https://t.co/xLyIIGKBUf