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Four chapters on what people have used to settle debts and store value — starting with Bitcoin, then the metal that did the job for millennia, then money as an idea, then the noisy category that borrowed the word.
This week · news
Whitepaper, genesis block, first transaction, 21 million, and the years after Satoshi left.
Why a scarce, durable metal kept being money — from weighed dust to the gold standard to 1971.
From obligations and cattle to coin, paper, bank ledgers, and fiat — the jobs money has to do.
Ethereum, smart contracts, tokens, and why most of that list is a different design.
Who holds bitcoin in the United States and abroad — surveys, ETFs, and the El Salvador experiment.
What the open ledger changed for people at the edges — and what banks copied without being replaced.
Open rails, cheaper sends, and what actually helps people with no bank account — plus what still doesn’t.
Dated items that actually touch Bitcoin — votes, the Fed, flows. Not a live ticker.
Bitcoin and a few other units from a public data feed — delayed, not a broker quote.
Third-party videos as links only — not hosted here, not our forecasts.