Looking at the history of currency, initially, when the Bretton Woods system pegged the dollar to gold, the price of gold was 35 dollars per ounce. In 1971, the Bretton Woods system collapsed, and the price of gold skyrocketed against the dollar, reaching 160.90 dollars per ounce in 1975, 279 dollars per ounce in 2000, and surpassing 2600 dollars per ounce by the end of 2024, an increase of about 74 times.