## The story of money > "Money in fact is the most successful story ever invented because it's the only story everyone believes in" – Yual Noah Harari - Not everyone believes in god, rights, nationalism - But everyone believes in money - "Story" or "Lie" (?) - Money is just a belief-system - Not just coins and bank-notes > "Money is anything people willing to use to systematically represent the value of other things for the purpose of exchanging goods and services" – Fighting Words Financial[^1] > "A psychological construct that works by converting matter into mind" – Fighting Words Financial[^1] - Fiat is only more real because everyone believes its story more than any other story - The story of money is not just a simple of story of transaction. It involves the entire planet buying into the story that the loudest bankers tell. - Cryptocurrencies remove the middle-men that tell their story while having their hands in everyone's cookie-jars - Algorand is one of many projects to decentralize finance