Fifteen hundred years before Satoshi's whitepaper, merchant…

Fifteen hundred years before Satoshi's whitepaper, merchants in India were already running a decentralised financial network that moved value across continents without banks, without states, without central authorities. This video traces how ancient Indian mathematics — the invention of zero, the place-value system, and game-theoretic frameworks from Kautilya's Arthashastra — combined with the hundi trade network to create what was effectively a working proto-blockchain.
https://youtu.be/obYt6gGOSPA?si=A8L1eAfhdGfdtgmT