The Etruscans mostly exported foodstuffs such as wine, olive oil, pine nuts, and grain, as well as iron and their Bucchero pottery, in exchange for slaves, raw materials and Greek pottery.
Songs such as “I Will Always Love You”, “I'm Every Woman” and “One Moment in Time” so long in the charts and in wine-bar Muzak that they seemed to get into the bloodstream of the world.
Digital currencies are also known as a 'fool's asset' like art or wine, meaning they don't provide regular returns on your investments the way rental income through a property or dividends from shares in a company would.