The Byzantine Empire spent its final two centuries slowly debasing the gold solidus — the most stable currency in Western history, 4.5 grams of gold for 700 years
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Turing described a theoretical machine that could compute any solvable problem — the conceptual foundation for every processor, every cryptographic function, every node on the Bitcoin network
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Father of economics and sociology, 700 years before Bitcoin
His writing contains the first systematic analysis of how monetary debasement destroys civilizations:
rulers debase coins → prices rise → purchasing power collapses → empire falls
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The number that would eventually justify a century of managed economies, money printing, and "don't worry, the index is up." Bitcoin has no index
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He built the Soviet hydrogen bomb. Then spent the rest of his life fighting the Soviet state he'd armed. The cypherpunk origin story told through a Soviet physicist https://t.co/EOi5bhgycx