0 sats \ 8 replies \ @nym 16 Apr \ on: The Rogue Scholar The Rogue to Victory Physical Book! BooksAndArticles
Wow, originally written in 2010?
Yep. I didn't want to print it traditionally and felt like it needed to have something to do with crypto but it wasn't technologically ready at that point.
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lol. Well, this book isn't precisely about bitcoin history AS SUCH but it was written while bitcoin was in a nascent form. It definitely reflects many values of that period I think. Remember, Bitcoin came out in about 08 or 09 depending on your view. I was in the middle of considering alternatives to the financial system at that point myself although my solution was more primitive than Satoshi's and shares more in common with Florence, Italy than Bitcoin.
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Was that the prion protein folding thing? I remember that. I think SETI had a screen saver back in the day you could use to help find alien life or narrow it down. I tried that for awhile, then figured the aliens were probably all ready here and too smart to want to talk to most of us!
Yeah, I was interested in an alternative system that would not allow the basic "burn in" of certain people holding financial power. I came to the understanding of something like a financial Jubilee being necessary to such a system before I really understood what a Jubilee was.
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Yep. The project is still ongoing.
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Heh. I wonder if it has actually helped do anything useful in terms of tangible results?
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