On a day like today, October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered America and a new world of possibilities opened up for everyone, trade flourished as never before in America and Asia, all under the auspices of the gold standard and the Spanish empire.

The Anglo-Saxon world has spent years discrediting a culture of trade, a culture of learning, mixing and collaboration between peoples.

For any student of history, the Spanish black legend is as much a lie as the stories of the Second World War of good guys and bad guys, history is always written and rewritten by the victors, and rarely in a fair and objective way. 

Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes or Magellan, not all Spanish, but not all financed by the Spanish crown, risked their lives to discover the world, with wooden ships and no engine, only propelled by the force of the wind against their sails, they changed the world, they were men of unwavering tenacity, iron conviction, and above all courage, things that most men now lack.

They were the Satoshi Nakamoto of the time.

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 British colonies are doing rather well compared to Spanish ones these days.