There's a reason society eventually settled on gold instead of tulips or pinecones. Good monies have certain attributes. Bitcoin's direct technological antecede

There's a reason society eventually settled on gold instead of tulips or pinecones. Good monies have certain attributes. Bitcoin's direct technological antecedent was called bitgold, and it was created by Nick Szabo who is a scholar of the origins of money (e.g. http://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/ http://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/)