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mk  ·  2276 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Debt Train Will Crash

I love the "hopeless, but not serious" quote. I think it resonates me more today than it would have a decade ago.

I've been thinking about Bitcoin. It was created in the dust of the Great Recession as an escape from fiat. Evolution happens on all levels. Perhaps bitcoin is an economic phenotypical variance that is finding advantage in some economical niches. Perhaps these niches are themselves expressions of an evolution. We might assume that bitcoin happened after some developments in math, software, hardware, and network technology made it possible, but maybe that isn't the most correct way to look at it.





veen  ·  2276 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think people often forget that there’s an activation energy required for any significant change. Like many technological innovations, the ingredients were there before, but it took an event and the right person to get the ball actually rolling.