{"id":12257,"date":"2019-10-05T17:34:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T21:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=12257"},"modified":"2019-10-09T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T18:05:58","slug":"digital-usd-is-48-years-old-and-bitcoin-is-11-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/digital-usd-is-48-years-old-and-bitcoin-is-11-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital USD is 48 years old and Bitcoin is 11 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Deriving where money came from is like the derivation of a theorem<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px\"><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang @duck9 (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/1180484785350660098?s=11\">10\/5\/19, 7:07 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>I thought credit {<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183duck9&#038;src=hash\">#cs183duck9<\/a>} was misunderstood. Suffice it to say that money gets people so emotional that few can even think to go do a rudimentary audit<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183mm&#038;src=hash\">#cs183mm<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183fanfe&#038;src=hash\">#cs183fanfe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183audit&#038;src=hash\">#cs183audit<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23UoA&#038;src=hash\">#UoA<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23MoE&#038;src=hash\">#MoE<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SoV&#038;src=hash\">#SoV<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1080994343446409216\/9H1GCOvK_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\">Erik Voorhees (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erikvoorhees?s=11\">@ErikVoorhees<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erikvoorhees\/status\/1180266882131120128?s=11\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><font color=\"#000000\">10\/4\/19, 4:42 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\">Most people think the US dollar has been around for a couple hundred years. In reality, it&#8217;s been around since 1971. Before that, &#8220;US dollar&#8221; was a proxy term for a specific weight of gold. The fiat dollar is just a middle-aged payment instrument with high cholesterol.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/890645070147231744\/tv6OYfKl_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\">Miko Matsumura \u32e1 (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikojava?s=11\">@mikojava<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikojava\/status\/1180491110684090368?s=11\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><font color=\"#000000\">10\/5\/19, 7:33 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\u202a@ErikVoorhees\u202c\u2069\"><\/a><a href=\"mailto:\u2066\u202a@ErikVoorhees\u202c\u2069\">\u2066\u202a@ErikVoorhees\u202c\u2069<\/a>&nbsp;the &#8220;fiat USD&#8221; is 48 years old and BTC is 11 years old. Great point Erik.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1080994343446409216\/9H1GCOvK_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\">Erik Voorhees (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erikvoorhees?s=11\">@ErikVoorhees<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erikvoorhees\/status\/1179864490571108352?s=11\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><font color=\"#000000\">10\/3\/19, 2:03 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\">The US dollar is already a digital currency. It runs on a blockchain with one master node called The Federal Reserve. It has no supply cap, can be reversed or created or destroyed by sub-nodes that operate under the rules of the master node. Sometimes paper proxies are printed.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image1.jpeg\" alt=\"image1.jpeg\" id=\"66A984F0-A8BB-4170-9AB7-FA0789203625\"><\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)\"><br \/>\nMoney.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang Deriving where money came from is like the derivation of a theorem Larry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang) 10\/5\/19, 7:07 AM I thought credit {#cs183duck9} was misunderstood. Suffice it to say that money gets people so emotional that few can even think to go do a rudimentary audit #cs183mm #cs183fanfe #cs183audit #UoA #MoE #SoV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-underground-cryptocurrency-knowledge-9"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}