I was doing a little research on the history silver. In the Ming dynasty they had an insatiable hunger for silver. Just speculating, perhaps China adopts Litecoin as its crypto "gold". Charlie Lee is Chinese as well just to add to the speculation. Asia is number one in adoption of Litecoin. What if China demands all citizens pay taxes in Litecoin like it did during ming with silver? China may only accept Litecoin as payment for global trade just like it did during Ming with silver?
Gold is only worth more than silver because its harder to mine. Silver has many more uses throughout history. Silver was the first metal to unite the world and start world trade with China.
The dollar becomes the official currency in 1785. The US had no mint to make its own currency so the first temporary currency was the Silver Spanish Peso. The word DOLLAR comes from the word thaler which comes from the German root “thal” which means valley and “thaler” indicates a person or thing from the valley. Thalers were silver coins and they were named Thalers because of a silver rich valley the silver was mined from.
I like to speculate quite a bit so this may be just a bogus idea but its worth keeping in the back of my mind. Also I have written proof if this does happen right here and Im the next Nostradamus hahah, just kidding. Anyways I thought the Litecoin fam would enjoy this little tidbit.
Gold is only worth more than silver because its harder to mine. Silver has many more uses throughout history. Silver was the first metal to unite the world and start world trade with China.
The dollar becomes the official currency in 1785. The US had no mint to make its own currency so the first temporary currency was the Silver Spanish Peso. The word DOLLAR comes from the word thaler which comes from the German root “thal” which means valley and “thaler” indicates a person or thing from the valley. Thalers were silver coins and they were named Thalers because of a silver rich valley the silver was mined from.
I like to speculate quite a bit so this may be just a bogus idea but its worth keeping in the back of my mind. Also I have written proof if this does happen right here and Im the next Nostradamus hahah, just kidding. Anyways I thought the Litecoin fam would enjoy this little tidbit.
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The early Ming dynasty attempted to use paper currency, with outflows of bullion limited by its ban on private foreign commerce. Like its forebears, the currency experienced massive counterfeiting and hyperinflation. (In 1425, Ming notes were trading at about 0.014% of its original value under the Hongwu Emperor.) The notes remained in circulation as late as 1573 but their printing was ended in 1450. Minor coins were minted in base metals, but trade mostly occurred using silver ingots. As their purity and exact weight varied, they were treated as bullion and measured in tael. These privately made "sycee" first came into use in Guangdong, spreading to the lower Yangtze sometime before 1423, the year it became acceptable for payment of tax obligations. In the mid-15th century, the paucity of circulating silver caused a monetary contraction and extensive reversion to barter. The problem was met through smuggled, then legal, importation of Japanese silver (mostly through the Portuguese and Dutch) and Spanish silver from Potosí carried on the Manila galleons. Provincial taxes were required to be paid in silver in 1465; the salt tax, in 1475; and corvée exemptions, in 1485. By the late Ming, the amount of silver being used was extraordinary: at a time when English traders considered tens of thousands of pounds an exceptional fortune, the Zheng clan of merchants regularly engaged in transactions valued at millions of taels. However, a second silver contraction occurred in the mid-17th century when King Philip IV began enforcing laws limiting direct trade between Spanish South America and China at about the same time the new Tokugawa shogunate in Japan restricted most of its foreign exports, cutting off Dutch and Portuguese access to its silver. The dramatic spike in silver's value in China made payment of taxes nearly impossible for most provinces. In extremis, the government even resumed use of paper currency amid Li Zicheng's rebellion.
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Notice the year 1423? 600 years later on the dot we are here once again. Currency collapse and going back to hard money. This dynasty is going to be digital silver AKA LITECOIN!!!!!!!!!
