Electricity is about to become the new base currency and China figured it out

Electrek
By Fred LambertNov 21, 2025, 6:30 am113 ptsTrending
For most of human history, currency was a direct claim on tangible, productive output. Before the abstraction of government fiat or cryptocurrency, value was stored in things that required real work and resources, bushels of grain, livestock, gold, assets with their own direct productive output: horses, and…

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