Economy
How the Knights Templar made travel safer for money
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
While highly regarded as holy crusaders, these heavily armed monks were actually running the world's most aggressive financial institution. Pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem could deposit their heavy gold in London, receive a highly encrypted cryptographic receipt, and withdraw the exact equivalent in foreign lands, entirely bypassing highway robbers.
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