[jacobolus]

Actually, some of the earliest writings we have (in Mesopotamia) are for managing beer production supply chains.

Other early mathematical/written work was for taxes and debt records, but also recording business transactions, adjudicating land boundary disputes, managing subcontracted work quotas, and so on. Then later of course we get written legal codes, astronomical records, religious texts, satirical stories complaining about scribes’ incompetent and hypocritical bosses, personal letters, ...

[ceejayoz]

Complaint letters, too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

[pjmlp]

Great read, it might be around 4000 years old and yet feels so actual.

[crottypeter]

> taxes and debt records

Probably along the lines of "X owes me a beer!"

[nebabyte]

Early hieroglyphics: "tipcoin! 1 beer"

[Nition]

Back when the blockchain was a chain of blocks.