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They may be talking of this new, decentralized, open-sea, counterfeit-proof currency I've heard fishermen raving about. It's called cowrie. But some friends wor
by marci 2y ago
They may be talking of this new, decentralized, open-sea, counterfeit-proof currency I've heard fishermen raving about. It's called cowrie. But some friends working in the mines think it's a joke and it will soon crash.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoSilver in standardized amounts as a form of payment is attested before the Hittites are. (The same goes for grain, obviously.) Cowries as payment are from an entirely separate region, but presumably were no more difficult to produce than smelted metals were.
- marci 2y agoThey even started to make some meme cowrie shells in China.