I was a kid and I was like, money has value because we believe it does, so people will give you things for it. Sooo I can create my own money and it'll have its own dynamics and whoever believes it has value can use it!

And so I created my own currency based on the cartoon Ed, Edd n' Eddy that had its own supply dynamics and serial numbers, and I printed it out. There was a total supply of something like 3 Eds. And I gave two to myself and one into circulation. At that moment I realized that fiat doesn't have anything backing it but empty promises, and that declaring something as legal tender against all else is purely arbitrary and only makes it worse. I was 9 years old. 

 The only thing that stopped me from printing more to give to myself was the fact that I didn't know how to write a program to increment the serial number. I did it by hand on Microsoft Paint, so it was work-intensive. Because it was work-intensive to make more, my money was actually **more** sound than the U.S. dollar. 

 I love this story.