INTERACTIVE LESSONS · FROM BARTER TO BITCOIN
Nobody invented money. It grew out of people trading, one swap at a time. Go find out how. Then watch it break, again and again, across history.
▶ START EP 01Trade alien goods at a village market until something strange happens: money appears on its own. Then Rod finds a cave.
Rai stones, glass beads, wampum, cowries, Roman coins. Real moneys and how each was flooded. Chapter 1 (Yap) is up as a pilot.
Stock-to-flow, and the one metal nobody could inflate.
Mises, 1912: the regression theorem, banks, and booms that bust.