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Citizens for Sound Money

Sound Markets require Sound Money Citizens for Sound Money's Mission is:
1. We believe it is time that the people again chose to use sound money.

To promote the adoption and use of sound money, sound monetary policy, and fair trading for sound money related assets
and
2. To provide ongoing representation for individuals and entities using or providing services related to sound money to influence policy at any level of government

Citizens for Sound Money's Vision is:
Gold and Silver were chosen as money by the people, not by governments. T

hey have withstood the test of time to serve as a medium of exchange and a store of value. In these modern times it is natural for there to be a crypto/blockchain component to sound money.

09/03/2026

Before serving as Master of the Royal Mint in 1696, Sir Isaac Newton hunted down counterfeiters and coin-clippers who diluted the silver content of British currency, understanding that debasing the currency corrupted the foundation of public trust.

During the Great Recoinage, he went undercover in London taverns, personally interrogating forgers and gathering evidence to send fraudulent clippers to the gallows.

He realized that if the weight and purity of a coin can be arbitrarily shaved away by bad actors, the entire economy begins to rot from within.

When rulers or individuals dilute what measures wealth, trade breaks down, prices spiral, and honest work loses its value.

Newton spent his final decades ensuring that a pound sterling meant exactly what it claimed to be.

Three centuries later, the principle remains unchanged: a civilization cannot build lasting prosperity on currency debasement.

09/02/2026

Even a modest-sounding 4% annual inflation rate cuts purchasing power in half in just 18 years. Over an average working career of 40 years, it destroys more than 80% of a saver's cash value.

Choose sound money!

08/31/2026

When currency fluctuates unpredictably, citizens are forced to become financial speculators just to protect their purchasing power against debasement.

08/27/2026

In 1780, with the Continental dollar collapsing under massive wartime printing, Morris recognized that the loss of purchasing power in citizens hands effectively funded the government without passing a single tax bill.

Inflation is not an act of nature or corporate greed. It is an unlegislated tax levied on every saver, quietly eroding what you have worked hard to store.

08/26/2026

Language preserves what empires often forget.

The modern English word soldier traces directly back to the Latin solidus, the pure gold coin minted during the Roman and Byzantine eras.

Throughout history, governments tried to cheat soldiers by paying them with debased, inflation-racked coins containing less precious metal, triggering severe economic backlash, loss of military loyalty, and outright mutinies.

Rulers learned that while armies would march for unalterable, honest money, morale shattered whenever the treasury tried to cut corners with debased, worthless coinage.

Currency debasement directly undermines the trust, contracts, and security that hold a society together.

08/25/2026

Why are gold and silver in a massive bull market, and what is the real reason the Federal Reserve is stepping in to buy its own bonds? More importantly: why is using physical precious metals in daily commerce still so difficult?

Benjamin Shaffer sits down with Gary Barsdorf from Alpine Gold to break down the deep liquidity and usability bottlenecks of gold and silver locked, & what you need to do to fix it.

08/24/2026

In May 1786, Rhode Island state legislature printed massive amounts of unbacked paper currency, declaring it legal tender so debtors could pay off hard debts with worthless paper.

Predictably, the economy imploded.

The paper hyper-depreciated, contract value evaporated, and shopkeepers literally locked their doors and fled town rather than accept paper notes at face value. Watching this absolute trainwreck from Mount Vernon, George Washington sent a scathing letter to Rhode Island’s Jabez Bowen.

The Founders viewed paper legal tender as a moral hazard and a direct assault on property rights. Thomas Jefferson summarized the entire fiat paradigm in three words: "Paper is poverty."

By late 1786, the infamous legal challenge Trevett v. Weeden had already taken place after a butcher refused to accept the depreciated paper money at par value.

In fact, Rhode Island’s paper disaster was so chaotic it became a primary catalyst for the Constitutional Convention later that year.

To prevent future politicians from inflating away the wealth of their citizens, they permanently (well it was supposed to be permanent..) banned the practice in the U.S. Constitution.

Article I, Section 10 explicitly forbids states from issuing paper money or making anything other than gold and silver coin a legal tender for debts.

Two centuries later, the economic law remains unchanged: When you inflate the money supply to solve a debt problem, you don't erase the debt, you just destroy the currency.

08/19/2026

In 1544, Henry VIII’s foreign wars had drained the Royal Treasury, leaving him with the classic monarchical dilemma: raise taxes and risk a peasant revolt, or manipulate the currency and hope nobody notices.

He chose door number two. (shocker)

Between 1544 and 1551, The Royal Mint systematically reduced the silver content of English coinage from a pure 92.5% sterling down to a meager 33%.

The rest was filled with cheap base copper, concealed beneath a microscopic, silver-dipped wash.

As the coins circulated, the ultra-thin silver layer began to wear down on the highest raised point of the royal portrait, the tip of the King's nose.

Before long, every merchant in London was staring at silver coins with glowing, oxidized copper snouts staring back at them, and gave him a brand-new royal title: "Old Coppernose."

Gresham’s Law took over shortly after, citizens hoarded older, high-purity silver coins, while dumping the "Coppernoses" onto the market as fast as humanly possible to offload the royal counterparty risk.

Central authorities can try to disguise currency debasement, but the underlying law of scarcity always reveals itself.

Sometimes, it happens right under the King’s nose.

08/18/2026

Join us for Sound Money Matters Live as we break down the latest trends in monetary policy, market shifts, and key legislative updates driving the sound money movement today.

08/17/2026

Long before he discovered that the Earth moves around the Sun, Nicolaus Copernicus was trying to stop the Polish crown from ruining its currency.

At the time, the Kingdom of Poland and its surrounding provinces were suffering from severe economic instability caused by multiple competing mints constantly lowering the silver content of their coins.

In 1526, decades before he published his famous heliocentric theory, Copernicus wrote a lesser-known economic treatise titled Monetae Cudendae Ratio ("On the Minting of Money")

What makes Copernicus's economic work so fascinating is how far ahead of his time he was. He even mapped out Gresham's Law before Gresham.

Decades before Sir Thomas Gresham formally stated that "bad money drives out good," Copernicus observed that when debased coins circulate alongside pure silver ones, people hoard the pure silver and spend the cheap alloy, eventually draining all real wealth out of the market.

Copernicus recognized that a government secretly diluting its coinage was doing something far worse than raising taxes, it was committing a slow, invisible theft against its own people.

Copernicus ranked currency debasement right alongside plague, famine, and war because all four destroy a civilization's foundational stability.

While war and famine are obvious disasters, money printing is uniquely dangerous because it operates silently. When a state dilutes the value of its money to pay for immediate spending, it is quietly liquidating the accumulated labor, savings, and future of its citizens.

A society cannot survive the systematic destruction of its measure of value.

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