Within the halls of the Antwerp Bourse the money market was born, a market that transitioned our understanding of cash from metal to paper, a clearing house foe 2nd layer money.
Governments and currencies are inextricably linked today because governments established a monopoly on second-layer money and used it to their own benefit.
In reality, first-layer #Bitcoin transactions are not designed for instant commerce; they are designed to keep an entire global #network of peers in perpetual agreement on the status of the Bitcoin ledger.
