What I understand about money is that it is a store of value and represents a real asset that has real value. So, with a gold backed currency, surely, you have a certain amount of gold against which you issue a certain sum of currency which circulates. The value of that currency cannot go up or down because it is fixed to the gold. So, what happens when you don't have enough currency in circulation to service all the activities that are required within a society/economy ...because as humans with our natural creativity we keep on creating more activities, so the need to represent those new activities with additional currency will grow. The inevitable outcome will be that people and businesses and industry will need to be able to issue their own currencies that are backed by the assets they create or purchase and this currency will be removed from circulation over time as those assets are consumed or depreciated (i.e. MPE/Mathematically Perfected Economy). In other words, currency wil