Ahh, the times of bimetallism. Bimetallism was the Bitcoin of the times, railroads were the "tech" of the times. Robert Shiller has a very entertaining comparative research between Bitcoin and bimetallism in his book Narrative Economics: https://youtu.be/QV0JrMV5nnc

Thanks for the recommendation!

Here's a PDF version of it: https://mises.org/library/driver