After decades of gleefully using signal handlers to handle all sorts of contingencies, systems programmers were solemnly informed that signal handler functions were very dangerous indeed, because a bunch of other stuff was on the stack and undefined while they were being run, and therefore, handler functions couldn't call anything that was unsafe or non-reentrant.
Systems programmers were told that the best signal handler function was one that set a flag, a volatile int, and then exited immediately without doing or touching anything else.
Sort of defeats the purpose of the elaborate signal-handler-callback-pointer-to-function system we had in place, but them's the breaks.
I could probably wax poetic about how it is perceived as a time of innocence but high culture, before "technology and science" ruined stuff, a time that is immortalized in literature such as Robin Hood, King Arthur, and imitated today by Tolkien and Rowling alike.
It is especially interesting the way people tend to portray it drained of all religious overtones and entirely secular in nature, so that it is palatable to all comers, whether pagan, Christian or Jew.
TFA completely fails to mention the utter fandom that has grown alongside RenFaires: The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). People who are involved with the SCA basically have ongoing year-round RenFaires of various magnitudes. They develop entire in-world personas for themselves and they're assigned to Kingdoms and such, regionally. I'm not sure of the relationship between the two, but it's certainly symbiotic and RenFaires give a taste of what people can have, 24/7 in the SCA.
Medieval life is also attractive to traditionalists of a Christian nature, again -- before everything was "ruined" by science and modernism. We all love going back to the 16th century to see how it all went wrong, or the 11th century to see how it also went wrong!
What's more, plenty of other subcultures draw on medieval tropes, such as goths and filkers and whatever con-going fandom is up to these days. Any competent cosplayer can "seamlessly" meld into a medieval princess or wench just by designing the right costumes, and there are plenty of YouTubers and Etsy sellers ready to assist!
Except it isn’t money at all; only suckers call it ‘money’.
It’s considered a security; a representation of value for sure. Move it around all you want until you’re blue in the face.
But money still has to come out of an exchange and through some sort of bank. So it’s all a shell game that’s decidedly not anonymous or protected at all.
That’s why so many have concluded that crypto is a scam; we might as well be smuggling Egyptian grave goods.