When I first read the article "a cypherpunk's manifesto" by Eric Hughes1 I felt really humbled, and then I continued to read about these people (Satoshi, Hal, Nick, Adam, etc) who seemed to be so ahead of their time (or maybe I'm behind? I don't even know), it's hard to live up to that standard.
One of them is that consumers yield and submit, Bitcoin goes to somewhere in the thousand dollars per range and there's a rush to move society away from the dysfunctional standard. Banks start taking Bitcoin deposits, Bitcoin hedge funds pop up everywhere, the FED chairman, ECB chairman and everyone else come to Timisoara whenever they want to make a move to obtain my blessing and so forth.
The quote above made me laugh, how close, how far, some yet to be, and he dares:
Go ahead, make your bets, I'm curious even.
When I think about everything I've learned about history, economics, computer science, etc, as I studied Bitcoin it's just ridiculous. I bet that's the case for most people here, so even if the fairy tale suggested by him happened we'd likely converge on a Bitcoin-like technology again given the history, knowledge, and human struggles.
We got some big shoes to fill for the future generations, buckle up lads and ladies.
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