> An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat to feed animals on his own farm. The US government had established limits on wheat production, based on the acreage owned by a farmer, to stabilize wheat prices and supplies. Filburn grew more than was permitted and so was ordered to pay a penalty. In response, he said that because his wheat was not sold, it could not be regulated as commerce, let alone "interstate" commerce (described in the Constitution as "Commerce... among the several states"). The Supreme Court disagreed: "Whether the subject of the regulation in question was 'production', 'consumption', or 'marketing' is, therefore, not material for purposes of deciding the question of federal power before us.... But even if appellee's activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time have been defined as 'direct' or 'indirect
It was illegal for farmers to grow wheat above a certain amount... on their own land... to feed their own animals...
You have people trying to tinker with complicated system. Gold is not complicated. It's a unit of account. There's a fixed amount of it with a pretty well known supply and demand. This is the way the world existed since 1971. That's the main value prop of crypto currencies, and by the price appreciation and interest, its a pretty strong feature. Its good to have a fixed unit of account available in the world when money supply can jump by 25% at any time due to the actions of a dozen or so individuals appointed by politicians