TOKENIZATION IN THE 12TH CENTURY
ᴬⁿᵃˡʸᶻᵉ ʰⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ ᵗᵒ ᵘⁿᵈᵉʳˢᵗᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖʳᵉˢᵉⁿᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜⁱᵖᵃᵗᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘᵗᵘʳᵉ
Do you think cryptocurrencies were born in this century with Bitcoin?
Do you think the total tokenization proposed by Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, is innovative?
Wrong.
The Knights Templar already tokenized values in the 12th century, using cryptography in paper wallets instead of apps.
Traveling to Jerusalem with gold in your pockets was suicide, assisted by bandits.
The tension was vital: how to move immense wealth without physically moving the metal?
The solution was radical: The deposit was made in Europe, an encrypted parchment was received, and then it was withdrawn at its destination in the Holy Land.
The deposits consisted of gold, silver, jewels, and, very often, property titles (land and real estate). Many pilgrims mortgaged or entrusted the management of their lands to the Order in exchange for the credit necessary to travel, converting physical assets into cash available in Jerusalem.
They used a geometric encryption protocol based on the Templar cross of the eight beatitudes and an analog symmetric encryption (basic single-key).
If the parchment was stolen along the way, the thief had nothing because he could not decipher the unique key to the order.
What was revolutionary was not only the security but the abstraction.
They transformed value into information. They encrypted the value by separating it from the physical object 900 years ago.
Does that sound familiar?
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