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100 years ago, Henry Ford proposed ‘energy currency’ to replace gold By Cointelegraph

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100 years ago, Henry Ford proposed ‘energy currency’ to replace gold

In 1921, American industrialist Henry Ford proposed the creation of an “energy currency” that could form the basis of a new monetary system — offering striking similarities to the peer-to-peer electronic cash system outlined in Satoshi Nakamoto’s 2008 (BTC) whitepaper.

Published Sunday, December 4, 1921 on the front page in New York Tribune. Source: Library of Congress

Bitcoin as an energy currency

On Dec. 4, 1921, the New York Tribune published an article outlining Ford’s vision of replacing gold with an energy currency that he believed could break the banking elites’ grip on global wealth and put an end to wars. He intended to do this by building “the world’s greatest power plant” and creating a new currency system based on “units of power.”

Replacing gold, ending wars