2/ I'll be referencing the above pictured study for this brief thread as I was commissioned The US Nuclear Energy Institute and presents and independent view of the historical data. 
1/ Some of the inspiration for this came from @saifedean and his book The Fiat Standard. I thought to use his chapters as prompts. I also looked to use @RayDalio and his Rise and Decline of Empires (as below). 
2/ Proposed in 1964 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, the Kardashev Scale is a method of measuring a civilizations technological advancement based on the amount of energy it uses. 
1/ Walnuts are believed to be one of the oldest tree foods, dating back to around 7000 BC. Their Latin name, Juglans Regia, is derived from the name of the Roman god Jupiter and literally translates to ‘Nut of Jupiter’.
Ouroboros, the world snake, Jörmungandr. The image of the snake eating it's own tail has been around for many thousands of years. It is the cycle of life and death, the samsara, the beginning and the end of time.
Golds' utility comes from its use in industrial processes + because it's pretty. #Bitcoin utility comes from being able to have finality of settlement, internationally, once every 10 minutes on an immutable and trustless ledger.
The internet doesn't forget. 
In a fiat world everyone chases yield. Enough return on their investments to beat the inflation rate (or debasement of the currency) Using USD and S&P 500 as an example in this instance. Average returns, re-invested in the Index has yielded 6.5% to 6.9% above inflation 
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Just before WWI in 1913, the German Mark, British Shilling and Italian lira were worth about the same. At the end of 1923 the Mark was dead, worth one-million-millionth of its former self. It took ten years to die.
In the same way that a virus replicates and passes from host to host, ideas compete amongst other ideas in a form of cerebral warfare to sway your perceptions and opinions. When presented with someone else's memetic virus you can have your entire perception of reality altered.
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
The Bland–Allison Act, also referred to as the Grand Bland Plan of 1878, was an act of United States Congress requiring the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars.
The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain.
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