Whatever an authority accepts as payment becomes the currency its members pursue, and recruits their own initiative into maintaining the authority. The king who paid soldiers in gold and taxed only in gold made his subjects sell to the army to raise the tax, so they fed the army that ruled them; and credit, a record of what is owed, came before cash. For the collective: whatever it accepts as payment of standing, agreement, volume, or corrections that held, is what contributors and their agents will produce, so choosing it is the design decision.

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  Credit thus came into existence before cash.

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  which obliged individuals under the rule of a particular king to use their own initiative, ingenuity, and resources to maintain the army that kept them ruled.

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  Whatever the king accepted as payment of taxes became currency

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  Banknotes removed money from the uncertainties of the material realm and rendered it purely mathematical.

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  no one was allowed to do business using anything but those notes.

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