What is the original payment method?

The most primitive payment method is barter.

The history of human use of money began from the earliest era of material exchange. In primitive society, people bartered for the materials they needed, such as a sheep for a stone axe.

But sometimes limited by the types of materials used in the exchange, we have to find a mutually acceptable item for exchange. This article is the most primitive currency. Livestock, salt, rare shells, rare bird feathers, precious stones, placer gold, stones and other items that are not easy to obtain in large quantities are used as money.

Modern barter:

Modern barter trade began in the United States in the 1950s. Since the 1980s, modern barter trading companies have flourished in the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries, which has become an important way for these countries to reduce cash consumption, increase sales, reduce inventory, develop new customers, open up new markets and promote economic development.

In the 1990s, the mature development and application of network technology provided a more perfect technical basis and application conditions for modern barter transactions, and the combination of e-commerce and barter transactions became a model for high-tech transformation of traditional enterprises.

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