Since you're a Jew/turkroach hybrid posing as a Greek (Jamie Dimon and Andreas Antonopolous anyone?) allow me to explain.  What he was referring to in the Gordian Knot problem is that since it's completely impossible to create a decentralized digital shitcoin - since transaction validators are always designed to centralize - that you can defeat this problem by simply using physical metals instead.  Cutting out the built-in, rent seeking, permissioned ledger, shitcoin middlemen (transaction validators).  We I don't need transaction validators.