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Throughout history, different generations of monetary networks have failed due to poor decision making by political and economic leaders: the circulation of precious metals failed, the metallic standard failed, and the fiat standard is failing. No matter how much success has been achieved historically, imperfect information accumulates leading to imperfect decisions. Given America’s track record as a hegemon, hubris has seeped into many Americans and American institutions as they disregard the current demise of the United States monetary system, which is inconspicuously corroding the American way of life. Failures, however, present an opportunity to discover and implement creative solutions in order to repair the state of affairs. The repair shop for preserving American prosperity and wealth is located in cyberspace and goes by the name Bitcoin. Bitcoin is both a digital monetary network and digital property. Coupled together, both elements will prove to be strategic in overcoming the inevitable implosion of the U.S. economy. Like all monetary networks before it, the current fiat system will fail, and a superior set of protocols using more advanced technology will replace it. Precious metals Predating the metallic and fiat standard by thousands of years, the nascent and exclusive use of geologic commodities such as bronze, silver, copper, gold, etc. is estimated to be roughly 5,000 - 6,000 years old. The Roman Republic—a rapidly growing military entity that would transition to become a military superpower known as the Roman Empire—adopted a monetary system based on minted bronze coins in the Fourth Century B.C. The regime set the standard weight of one bronze coin to be 323 metric grams or 71 percent of a modern American pound. But by the turn of the new millennia, one bronze coin would weigh only ten metric grams or two percent of an American pound, rendering the coin’s value a tiny fraction of its original value. That would be like living in a 7,100 square foot house and moving to a 200 square foot residence. How would you adapt to your new home? Probably won’t be having many parties. Consequently, bronze as a viable monetary network would collapse, forcing the newly organized Roman Empire to rely on a weighted system in the form of minted coins involving gold, silver, and some copper minerals. Systems tied to these commodities would also fail: deposit discoveries from mining expeditions and policies to mix copper with silver, for example, would cause overwhelming inflation that would see prices jump 25 percent annually from 260 A.D. to 270 A.D.