One of the subjects I'm passionate about is Homesteading and over the past few weeks I've really fallen in love with the incredible Townsends Channel on YouTube. There is something delightfully anachronistic about listening to podcasts about the past while working on blockchain technology and recently I've been rewatching the incredible Townsends Compound construction series here.
Building Log Cabin Walls - Townsends Homestead Part One
As I often let these videos black in the background as I work on other tasks the YouTube juju got to work and linked me to this incredible video on coinage and paper money in Colonial and Revolutionary America. This wonderful video is the best thing that I've seen from this fantastic channel and made some points I think are really worth bringing up on a place like PeakD even though I so often am speaking about much different topics.
Check this one out yall:
So often what I find when researching the past is a feeling that things today are now as alien as we sometimes feel. Townsends makes all the necessary points for us here in his closing. Not only is ledger technology in many ways older and more fundamental to exchange than currency and, perhaps, it is a possible solution to some of the endless of financial woes the modern world has build.
It can be easy to look at the endless lists of coins on any exchange and feel like, maybe things have reached some crazy new incontrollable place and we've gone off the rails. However, when you take a more historical perspective the rise of cryptocurrency honestly looks like a inevitability. This perspective has improved my morning so I wanted to bring it to you, I hope you enjoy.