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PEPEFORK Launches The Belt And Fork Initiative
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This is subjective as "beads had no value, shells had no real value" Beads and quahog shells themselves individually were useful in many other purposes having intrinsic value in other methods or means of production, or other products. but let's not jump to conclusions that they're not valuable, as bills today have iconography of leaders and those leaders have stories or history to them, so did our wampum. But that paper the bills are printed on have no value either. we collectively agree to ascribe value to the bills. Every wampum was made with quahog shell beads, but every wampum BELT was an iconographic representation of what treaty, or whom we as first nations were dealing with. So essentially, our wampum was multipurpose outside of "money" as they were also our "social contract". Ones that stick out in my mind are The Hiawatha belt The Two row belt [The Treaty of Niagara belt](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/treaty-of-niagara-1764#:~:text=Niagara%20Treaty%20and%20Wampum,-The%20Niagara%20agreement&text=The%20two%20figures%20holding%20hands,were%20all%20in%20a%20relationship.) Much like bitcoin, there's a knowledge to their use, contemporarily most people wouldnt use beads, but would find some unique beadworks valuable outside of a mechanisim of trade or exchange. The durability of the belts and that many indigenous people didn't use writing systems, the belts and beadwork had a specific durability over a paper money system. Since that durability was part of the hardness of the beads, we were able to utilize this as documentation of agreement - backing the treaties - like a goldenrod copy of a triplicate form, for our people to recognize and use with the crown to this very day. The beads may not mean anything or hold value to others, but from a first nations perspective, it's our agreements that are encoded into the beads much like we encode our collective digital value in bits. So saying they don't have value is just as short sighted as saying bitcoin doesn't have value either. that's historical fact.
You little bastard. You said you would NE VER tell anyone. WHERE'S MY BELT, MARTHA?
50 million shiba!? Thats it!? AHAHAHAHAHA! Did you use your stimulus check to buy that!? IM ASTRONOMICALLY SMARTER THAN YOU AND IM A BLACK BELT IN KARATE YOU LOSER