Unpopular Opinion: Bitcoin is simple. I could have written it, but I didn't because I was looking in the wrong place. A lot of people could have written it, and source material was public (cryptography mailing list). The author of bitcoin is just like the rest of us. Not a genius
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I wonder when and if another similar era of like-minded folks finding each other would or could happen again. The amount of noise and political posturing makes me think it won't happen for a while, if ever again.
There is quite a bit more haystack to go through to search for the needles, alas.
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Not to mention the level of expertise needed to access communities in that era automatically brought people together who shared technical ability & curiosity to make it happen. I've learned far more studying old USENET posts & mailing lists than anything on modern social media.
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sincere question: do you guys think bitcoin is still "untamed" -- i.e. hasn't been co-opted / brought under the mighty thumb? I've been putting my faith in the "no hard fork" principle. But why has there not been a lot more state resistance?
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Yes it is still untamed, because they have many more easier targets to go after (Libra, for example).
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hmm. Libra seems cut from the legacy cloth to begin with. [centralized, supported by legacy institutions, tame] Are 'they' really treating it as a threat? Just for show, maybe.
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