Bitcoin is such a comically perfect dark age hedge. It’s like it was invented for a tropey cyberpunk dystopia novel.
Editor to author: “Seriously? A decentralized digital currency that requires burning lots of energy and goes up when nations crumble? Isn’t that kinda lazy?”
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Like a bad knockoff of a good Daniel Suarez book in 1999. I guess his Killer autonomous cars sort of exist now too...
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Probably 100x to 1000x per dollars book value. Bitcoin energy agonizing is some serious hypocrisy.
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Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon was probably an influence in bitcoin’s development, or at least captured the early ferment of the idea, so it’s got an impeccable cyberpunk pedigree
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