[shanac]

Fun fact: The US did have competitive currencies for a bit, during the Antebellum and Civil War period.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jshambau/Papers/AntebellumExchRtsJ...

There were a lot of bank busts and currency scares.

[interstitial]

Bring up historic facts in a bitcoin discussion is useless. John Law is always a hero for awhile.