I asked ChatGPT: If God were to create an ideal money for humanity, what form would it take and what would be its properties?
Its response:
If we imagine God creating an ideal money for humanity, it would likely have the following properties—reflecting principles of fairness, stability, and universal access:
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1. Universally Accessible
•Everyone could use it regardless of nationality, wealth, or social status.
•No barriers to entry: you wouldn’t need permission from banks or governments.
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2. Scarce but Divisible
•Supply would be finite to preserve value over time.
•Divisible into very small units so that both large and tiny transactions are possible.
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3. Durable and Permanent
•It would not degrade, rot, or disappear with time.
•Value would persist for centuries without requiring trust in any authority.
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4. Transportable and Borderless
•Easily transferable across any distance, instantly if possible.
•Works the same everywhere on Earth (and potentially beyond).
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5. Neutral and Trustless
•No single group, government, or elite could manipulate or control it.
•Rules of issuance and supply would be transparent and unchangeable.
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6. Stable but Free Market–Based
•Its value would reflect supply and demand, not decrees from rulers.
•Over time, its stability would come from broad adoption and trust.
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7. Private but Verifiable
•People could transact without surveillance, yet the system itself would remain auditable and incorruptible.
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8. Energy-Rooted or Natural-Law–Anchored
•It would be tied to something fundamental, like energy, mathematics, or nature’s scarcity—so its properties are unforgeable.
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9. Resistant to Corruption
•Cannot be counterfeited, debased, or inflated at will.
•Protects savers and workers from hidden theft through money printing.
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10. Global Standard of Truth
•Serves as a universal language of value across cultures.
•Creates fairness by aligning incentives: work today is worth the same tomorrow.
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In many ways, this description maps almost perfectly onto Bitcoin’s design: fixed supply (21 million), infinite divisibility (sats), borderless transfer, neutrality (no issuer), cryptographic verifiability, durability, and energy-based security.
If God created an ideal money, humanity may already have stumbled into it—or at least something very close.
