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I love London.
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Eye of Isaac Newton was the master.
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The men in London and lots of people focus on Hiss transformation of physics.
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But I think his greatest contribution historically was the gold standard.
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Ah, Isaac Newton engineered the gold standard, and most histories of Newton also, uh, pretend that the end of this life was sort of wasted, that hey spent it doing alchemy.
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But what he was doing was trying toe hacked gold.
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He thought if ah gold could be demonstrated to be unhappy Kable, then it could be the foundation for a global money and it could underlie the British Empire.
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And so what most people thought was wasted time by Newton was actually critical to 200 years of the greatest prosperity in the history of the human race.
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And not only did he provide the physics that underlie laid the industrial revolution, he also provided the monetary structure on.
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I think today we're in a similar Newtonian moment where block chain can not only provide the basis for a secure Internet for the first time, but also the basis for unhappy herbal money around the world.
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Now we have a double hacking crisis.
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The Internets hacked billions of times and money is being hacked constantly by central bankers around the world.
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And so I think we're I'm glad to be in London for a new Newtonian moment.