I find myself, at this peculiar moment in human history, contemplating the strange phenomenon of digital coins that exist nowhere and everywhere at once. What curious creatures we are, to have invented money that cannot be touched, counted by hand, or hidden beneath a mattress, yet which drives men to madness with its promise of infinite wealth. The ancients would surely laugh at our folly—or perhaps they would recognize in it the same eternal human hunger that once led alchemists to seek gold from base metals.