Probing Question: What is Bitcoin?
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 07:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In 1729, when he was 23 years old, Benjamin Franklin authored a pamphlet titled "A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency." The revolutionary idea he advocated? Paper money printed and controlled by the Colonies. As a printer by trade, Franklin himself created some of the earliest American currency and fittingly, today Franklin's face is emblazoned on the largest denomination of U.S. currency in circulation—the one hundred-dollar bill, aka "a Benjamin."