7. While fire, metallurgy, and mining gave us gold, the internet, encryption, and computing power have given us Bitcoin, which has the most superior monetary attributes of any money in history. It is also decentralized, permissionless and highly resistant to censorship - conferring not only purchasing power increases and banking to its users, but also replacing the poverty and bondage inherent to the fiat system with property rights, self-sovereignty, and freedom. 7/10