Great point Kamil, no one loves etymologies more than I.

Thaler almost certainly the inspiration for spanish dolare, true.

At 1 ounce silver, thalers dolares and the first US dollars were silver-backed money. I used “gold standard” liberally here to simplify and modernize the concept of prescious-metal (thus proof-of-work) backed money.

Thanks for the great comment and your read!