Over the weekend, some members of the Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto community have commemorated the 50th anniversary of the US “temporary” gold window suspension, aka the Nixon shock, by making the ‘WTFhappenedin1971’ hashtag a trending topic on Twitter – with some calling it the 50th anniversary of the fiat dollar.
On August 15, 1971, then-US President Richard Nixon
On August 15, 1971, then-US President Richard Nixon
Source: https://cryptonews.com/news/bitcoiners-remind-world-of-temporary-gold-window-suspension-11447.htm