The comments on the original submission of Bitcoin to Hacker News are fun to look at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852 pic.twitter.com/14Y1D2zXTq
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I liked Nick Szabo, Mike Hearn & Satoshi's early (< 2012) writing: it made it clear that this was a way anyone could create new types of market (rather than market-making being something only a few players could do). That seems immensely important.
I've been interested in cryptocurrencies since the late 90s, but it was seeing this (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Dominant_Assurance_Contracts … ) that got me interested in Bitcoin. (There is, or at least was, incidentally, a considerable bug in that page, not that that really matters - it was the principle.)
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Also, TBC, it wasn't so much dominant assurance contracts (though those are deeply interesting) but rather the point that anyone could easily make a new type of market, with DACs as an example. That seemed (and seems) mindbogglingly important to me.
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@mattocko opined that regular Joe's can't invest in startups (easily) due to laws that "protect" them, but can buy the lottery. Securitized Crypto's are SEC problematic, but there should be a way to provide access to capital for startups and access to deals by regular folks
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