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It’s a bong-rip grade thought but I’m serious. If you look at how exactly the algorithms bootstrap trust from trustless (byzantine). conditions, you realize that a reified thing like money pretty much has to emerge. But the more there is initial trust, the weaker the emergence.
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It’s like how in Newtonian mechanics spacetime just contains mass. In relativity, mass creates spacetime to a first approximation. Or more accurately, “spacetime tells mass how to move, mass tells spacetime how to curve” as JA Wheeler put it. One of my favorite quotes.
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