because of the different degrees of excellence of their efforts, merchants and peasants earn different amounts and, as a result, some live magnificently while others live parsimoniously.
1000 pounds of bread, 1000s of pounds of beef?
Notes
this system obviously requires that the warehouse have no greater debt, in bills, than the quantity of goods it actually contains
There needs to be some sort of pegging of notes to actually things in the storehouse?
Possibility of fraudulent notes? The good thing with bitcoin, you cannot make a fraudulent bitcoin?
Who will watch the watchmen? Juvenal.
True credit, truth in credit? 
Only poor people go to work
True abundance vs fraud? 
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What are the true necessities of life?
Imaginary money?
Maybe we should peg bitcoin to some real asset like oil?
Bitcoin has been around since 2009, it is 2024 now. 13 years? Therefore a very high likelihood that it will be around for at least another 13 years.
The Lindy effect via NASSIM TALEB —
in the next 13 years, will the price of bitcoin be up or down?
Probably up.
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Price is a ratio 
Money is Man
The truth is, then, that since their principal merchandise is slaves, their money is man.
The most constant value is that of man
Tampered with … tamper proof?
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Leases, and ground rents?
The science of money?
The damage of augmentation of money
thinking ducats?
This calls to mind a man who once had to pay 100 ducats for something he desired and was later required to pay 200 half-ducats for the same thing. Thisdistressedhim,becausewhereasfirsthe heard the sound of the number 100 he now heard the other, to him more frightening, 200. But it is evident that when one buys dear be also sells dear. Therefore, to mourn the fact that prices have risen is also to
mourn the fact that things are selling at a better price.
Things are actually more expensive in a prosperous state?
Superfluous and sxnaptuous expenditures are
the faithful companions of peace and of a prosperous state; rising prices of things are an infallible sign that a nation is flourishing. And this was all due to the wisdom of a most virtuous king.
Sestereces
Rome used sesterzi, the smallest coin, as money of account and this was never changed. But after she rose to such power and wealth that one heard everywhere of thousands of sestefzi, the word thousand became mute and, at once, the greatest money of account that was everusedanywherewasfoundinuse. Thiscoincorres ponded almost to twenty-five of our ducats.
Opulence and industry
what should be called opulence, tameness, industry are criticized as luxury, lassitude, or ignoble arts.
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Man is an insatiable animal
Man always complains and is fastidious
Whatever his state, he is always discontented ***
How about myself, I am very content?
ignore what people say, heed what they actually do and where they go
For.example,inorderto determine the best country in.which to reside”at any • given time, one shoiild not listen at $11 to what anyone says, but should observe where men go, leaving their homeland behind, to establish themselves and raise their’ progeny.
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Be, become a creditor, not a Debitor.