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 Good point, I actually remember my father telling me the story about the Weimarer Republik when I was a kid: the Germans carrying around bags full of banknotes for grocery shopping and so on... that stuck in by head, mainly because I couldn't explain why money loses its value over time.
That story actually is why I've always known what "hyperinflation" means. 

But without my motivation to manage my family's finances as a young father I would never have gotten into the space... and then it was the YouTube Algorithmus which sent me to nostr:npub1qv02xpsc3lhxxx5x7xswf88w3u7kykft9ea7t78tz7ywxf7mxs9qrxujnc and nostr:npub122pnqy3sxlnghaxarll4rywx2jy5d2vf2a52pdguzmdea4wlupesdpvsgz . In my experience there are relatively few German speaking crypto bros in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Maxi educators somehow were on top of the algorithm...