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RE: Visiting the Philadelphia Mint.
ehy dear @dfinney, the mint is really an incredible place !! sometimes I dwell on things that we take so much for granted, like coins, and I think of how they were created in the past, how they were designed, to make pieces of different value, make both pieces of metal and paper ... .and make round coins !! why not square ?? beautiful post with all your descriptions, congratulations !! :-))
It’s crazy the random stuff people just decided to do hundreds or thousands of years ago and somehow we are still building on it today, while at the same time forgetting how to do all of it without the help of automation and computers. Like someone looked at the stars thousands of years ago, recognized commonly seen ones, and even mapped out their paths in the sky. Stuff like that is nuts.