From the perspective of modern Christianity, you were not to loan at interest to someone who has less than you. You were not to charge usury of a fellow Israelite, especially the poor or anyone poorer than you, found in [[Exodus 22]]:25, [[Leviticus 25]]:35-37, and [[Deuteronomy 23]]:19-20, emphasizing supporting community members in need rather than exploiting their poverty.

However, when one has a better understanding of economics and the financial system, this view seems like an oversimplification that falls outside the bounds of [[logos]] (right reason).

Under a gold standard, perhaps the simplistic view of usury (stated above) would work. Loan someone a gold coin and, 5 years later, get a gold coin back.

But in a fiat-based world, assuming 10% inflation rate, the debtor who borrows $5000 and pays it back in 5 years has gained roughly $1000 benefit while the saver has suffered a $1000 loss of purchase value.

The same process takes place when fiat savings are placed in a bank account with no interest. That savings is loosing 10% of value every year.

If we assume the writers of the usury verses in the Old Testament had more wisdom than the barbarians that modern Christians make them out to be, what might have been the deeper meaning of the term "usury"?

We've already mentioned the problem with inflation in a fiat-based system. Those closest to the money printer automatically rob the rest of society at the rate the money is being debased ([https://preparingyou.com/wiki/Bitcoin_Ponzi#Cantillon_Effect the Cantillon Effect]). That would be the most obvious form of usury.

Another was mentioned by Brother Gregory in the [https://podcast.preparingu.com/key2619/ May 16, 2026 podcast] where, at 1:20:20, he explains that various taxes, licenses, and permits are Use Taxes, i.e., usury. This is obviously something that exists in the [[Bondage of Egypt]], which we were instructed to never return.

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Calebeaton:

Nice 3-minute summary of what money is and why most "advanced" investors don't recognize those attributes in Bitcoin until it's too late.</br>
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In this 33-minute explainer video, Lyn Alden takes a step back through history and looks into the intricacies of money and banking, offering an answer to an overlooked but extremely important question: What is money?</br>
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Jack Mallers, one of the biggest movers and shakers in Bitcoin, did a great podcast around the subject of "What Is Money?"</br>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Normie Logic: Bitcoin is an abstraction but my bank balance is a representation of the amount of dollars I have to spend. <br><br>Reality: You don't "have" dollars. You have permission to access a digital ledger entry. <br><br>Permission that requires the bank to stay solvent, the…</p>— Jeff Swanson (@theswansjr) <a href="https://twitter.com/theswansjr/status/2024113758902104180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Bitcoin v Gold

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Calebeaton: /* Gold-based economy requires central government */

'''''Gold is a bearer asset. If you physically possesses it, you own it.'''''</br>
'''''Bitcoin is a knower asset. If you know the seed phrase, you own it.''</br>'''
— [https://x.com/Excellion/status/1900754801027084514 Samson Mow]

'''''Gold is so bad at storing value that we need to buy a house to store it in instead. Wait until people understand what Bitcoin is.'''''</br>
— [https://x.com/BTC_for_Freedom/status/1901164193681690769 Bitcoin for Freedom]

Sure, gold looks good in comparison to the Dollar. But the Dollar is a poor measuring stick.</br>
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== Don't Bet Against Human Ingenuity ==
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Gold’s supply is elastic. As price rises, so does supply. A bet on gold is a bet against human ingenuity. (2-minute video)
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bitcoin is better money than gold. The simplest reason: scarcity.<br><br>Gold’s supply is elastic. As price rises, so does supply. A bet on gold is a bet against human ingenuity.<br><br>I don’t want to bet against <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> to store wealth.<br><br>Bitcoin fixes this. It's finite. A bet on humanity <a href="https://t.co/IMWGulhsFX">pic.twitter.com/IMWGulhsFX</a></p>— Jack Mallers (@jackmallers) <a href="https://twitter.com/jackmallers/status/1981046795141558310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So much debate about gold vs bitcoin portability. <br><br>No one is addressing the only important question for an investor: exit liquidity.<br><br>The long term exit liquidity for gold are central banks and jewelers. Give them gold, they'll give you fiat.<br><br>Bitcoin's long term exit liquidity…</p>— Bitcoin Asset Research (@stonychambers) <a href="https://twitter.com/stonychambers/status/1981067758876996076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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== Why gold failed ==
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bitcoin is the purest manifestation of sound money ever conceived.<br><br>Scarce, divisible, portable, and immune to political corruption. <br><br>It perfects what gold only hinted at. <br><br>Gold was sound money constrained by physics; Bitcoin is sound money liberated by mathematics. <br><br>Gold…</p>— Adam Livingston (@AdamBLiv) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamBLiv/status/1981366026936672292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">To all the gold bugs in my comments,<br><br>You’re defending a metal that peaked when horses were transportation tech.<br><br>Three thousand years of history, and it still needs vaults, guards, "audits", borders, trucks, and permission.<br><br>You call it safe.<br><br>Safe for who?<br><br>In a digital…</p>— MDB (@MDBitcoin) <a href="https://twitter.com/MDBitcoin/status/2022289147285627265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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== Intrinsic Value: There Is None ==

Objective Value v Subjective Value
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The funniest thing about Peter Schiff is that he claims Austrian economics as the foundation of his worldview and then he uses the phrase "objective value".<br><br>Austrians do not believe in “objective value.”<br><br>They believe in subjective value - Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, Mises, Rothbard,… <a href="https://t.co/DZl3AqqH7N">https://t.co/DZl3AqqH7N</a></p>— Adam Livingston (@AdamBLiv) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamBLiv/status/1995513687747019177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Money does not exist without humans. Neither gold nor bitcoin are money without an agreement between humans. The difference: Bitcoin was engineered specifically for that purpose.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gold is God's money.<br>Bitcoin is man-made thus inferior.<br><br>Gold isn't "God's money." It's a shiny rock we decided was valuable.<br>We discovered it, refined it, minted it, and agreed it meant something.<br><br>Money has always been a human invention.<br><br>The only real debate?<br>Which invention…</p>— Jeff Swanson (@theswansjr) <a href="https://twitter.com/theswansjr/status/2015854071626752010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gold is God's money. <br>Really?<br><br>Gold isn't "God-made" in any meaningful monetary sense. <br>A chunk of gold sitting in the ground isn't money. It's just a shiny rock.<br><br>Money is always a human invention.<br><br>Humans had to discover gold, extract it, refine it, mint it, assign it value…</p>— Jeff Swanson (@theswansjr) <a href="https://twitter.com/theswansjr/status/2018074466337587482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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== Halflife of Gold ==

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gold has a 36-year half-life; over 100 years, you lose 87.5% of its value due to supply increases.<br><br>BTC has no half-life because of its 21 million supply cap.<br><br>That is why Strategy has been aggressive in owning as much Bitcoin as they can.<br><br>You cannot inflate Bitcoin at all. <a href="https://t.co/Hnr6rHGiJj">pic.twitter.com/Hnr6rHGiJj</a></p>— 100% Strategy (@StrategyMaxi) <a href="https://twitter.com/StrategyMaxi/status/2011922113083396596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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== Gold Invites Violence ==

At Bretton Woods, the United States seized the world's gold and then took it hostage, and then Nixon killed all the hostages in 1971." (2-minute video)
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== Gold-based economy requires central government ==
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bitcoin is a free market.<br><br>Gold is not.<br><br>Bitcoin trades:<br><br>24/7<br>Globally<br>Final settlement<br>No issuer<br>No gatekeepers<br>No paper claims exceeding supply<br><br>Gold trades:<br><br>Through LBMA and COMEX paper<br>With rehypothecation and leasing<br>With central banks as price setters<br>With delivery that…</p>— Adam Livingston (@AdamBLiv) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamBLiv/status/2003878947830817009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 24, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Gold-based economy requires government centralization (1-minute video)</br>
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"Gold failed as a capital network 400 years ago..." - Michael Saylor (2-minute video)
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If you understand this chart deeply, you'll understand the money over the next 1000s of years will be secured by energy.<br><br>... and we're lucky to be born in a very special time. <a href="https://t.co/bO4RbHtwYP">pic.twitter.com/bO4RbHtwYP</a></p>— Willy Woo (@woonomic) <a href="https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1865835264029172007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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It is possible for gold to be currency only when it moves at the speed of information. When information was only as fast as a horse or a car, gold could maintain pace. Those clinging to the possibility of gold or silver having economic value for everyday trade deny the fact that information now travels at the speed of light (or at least electricity). Gold is generations out of date.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gold?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gold</a> just hit an ATH in USD and an ATL in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a>. Damn, fiat money is absolute garbage and Bitcoin is superior to both. <a href="https://t.co/wcRKSP6eS4">pic.twitter.com/wcRKSP6eS4</a></p>— Carl ₿ MENGER ⚡️🇸🇻 (@CarlBMenger) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarlBMenger/status/1885268300969762957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Most of the world sees bitcoin as a Ponzi-like cult.<br><br>Ironically, it's the opposite—a monetary network built on the ethos of "don't trust, verify."<br><br>I don't hold bitcoin because I'm a "bitcoin maximalist." I hold bitcoin because I understand economic systems converge on one best… <a href="https://t.co/1XHojgLwKx">pic.twitter.com/1XHojgLwKx</a></p>— Joe Burnett, MSBA (@IIICapital) <a href="https://twitter.com/IIICapital/status/1896314730933088396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gold: transfer value over time<br><br>Fiat: transfer value over space<br><br>Bitcoin: transfer value over time + space<br><br>It’s really that simple.</p>— Trey Sellers ∞/21M (@ts_hodl) <a href="https://twitter.com/ts_hodl/status/1916140056236143040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Why would you need Bitcoin when you have tokenized gold?”<br><br>Tokenized gold is inferior to bitcoin because it is a tokenized asset, rather than an asset in and of itself. <br><br>Additionally, tokenized gold has the same weakness as physical gold: horrible auditability and reliance on…</p>— Walker⚡️ (@WalkerAmerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/WalkerAmerica/status/2023798589579743354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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== World Reserve Currency: US (Bitcoin) v China (gold) ==

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== Supply Must Be Considered ==

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gold's total market value is approaching $30 trillion.<br><br>Bitcoin priced in gold is currently still below its 2021 high.<br><br>Once gold cools off, capital may begin flowing into bitcoin.<br><br>And there's only 21,000,000 BTC. <a href="https://t.co/Iqb8nlCJ3b">pic.twitter.com/Iqb8nlCJ3b</a></p>— Joe Burnett, MSBA (@IIICapital) <a href="https://twitter.com/IIICapital/status/1978808151383080969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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== When Bitcoiners make fun of goldbugs ==

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== Additional Considerations Around Gold ==

* [https://x.com/AtRealBen/status/1892972137197240364 Germany's economy flourished when it was freed of the Rothschild-controlled gold standard]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdCEKwlMXvM Henry Ford wanted to create an energy-based currency] as an alternative to the Rothschild-controlled gold standard which promoted war
** [https://x.com/IanCarrollShow/status/1892345518828728701 When Henry Ford also tried to give his workers a raise, he was taken to court by the Dodge brothers] (which appear to have connections to that same group controlling gold). The ruling turned the corporations into the anti-freedom organizations they are today.
* The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjLiTXLUcMM Road to Roota Theory] maintains that gold is actually abundant on the Earth and simply controlled the way DeBeers controls diamonds to create false demand?
* In his 1996 documentary "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOk3wBuQNcE The Money Masters]," Bill Still explained how insiders control the gold market which makes one wonder if returning to a gold standard really returns Americans to a free market currency.
** Considering one of the messages in "the Money Masters" documentary was that nations with gold standards are controlled by the moneychangers who own the gold, is there reason to be suspicious when new a gold standard is being promoted at a time when American is primed to replace the Federal Reserve with something new?
*** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbLHXOipQN4 Tucker Carlson interviews Roger Ver], creating confusion in people's minds around bitcoin.
*** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxWZO0FEQ1g Tucker Carlson interviews Luke Gromen] promoting a new gold standard.
**** At the 3-minute point, Gromen admits that the uselessness of gold in real life is one of the properties that makes gold such an effective money/accounting tool. This is a point the bitcoiners make to goldbugs—the best money (accounting of value) serves no other purpose except money because that is it's most valuable service.
**** At the 12-minute point, Tucker and Gromen discuss the obfuscation and secrecy around national gold ownership and distribution. A gold standard continues the requirement of "trust in authority" around verification of everything the public is told about gold. The 1996 documentary "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOk3wBuQNcE The Money Masters] is almost entirely about a cabal of bankers manipulating countries that go on gold standards. Compare to bitcoin which can be verified in real time by anyone one of the hundreds of thousands nodes. A bitcoin node can be setup by anyone with with enough interest in doing so.
**** At 31:40, Gromen explains how gold is simply a compressed and portable form of energy. ([[Energy_as_Money|Not as compressed and portable as bitcoin]].)

== Recommended Books/Audiobooks ==

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| '''The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking'''

[[File:Bitcoin-bitcoin-standard.jpg|right|thumb|frame|[https://amzn.to/4axReSd Buy on Amazon] </br>[https://amzn.to/4ax3wdH Audiobook]]]
Most of us have an inherent understanding that a gold standard would be better than the endlessly printed fiat we have today. Many bitcoiners were “gold bugs” before bitcoin. Their core ethic hasn’t changed. In a world of instant communication and wire transfers between countries, bitcoin converts the cost of energy generation into the ideal commodity that has both intrinsic value and ultimate transportability.

Listen to [https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-tom-woods-show/ep-1171-the-bitcoin-standard-Z6swip2x4j5/ this interview] to learn more about the book.
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| '''Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better'''

[[File:Bitcoin-broken-money.jpg|right|thumb|frame|[https://amzn.to/3GZm5cM Buy on Amazon] </br>[https://amzn.to/3GY8pPC Audiobook]]]
Broken Money explains why the gold standard HAD to be abandoned in a world where speed was more precious than universal value. Then it shows how bitcoin is able to merge the best of both worlds with technology that is far superior than the buggy system electronic system that has been cobbled together by banks since the 1950s.

Learn about Lyn’s engineering background and get a better idea of the insightfulness of this book by listening to [https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/bitcoin-audible/chat_88-broken-money-broken--KFMZ5mQ_qE/ this interview].
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