Based on this key factor, I would vote for the Great Recession. Even though we would have had Bitcoin eventually, it was thanks to it that Satoshi created the Bitcoin we know today.

Here is my version:

Basically, the "so far" part for me means downranking the things that I think will still be huge but are not yet. Or else Bitcoin would have won against the iphone. Snowden might get further maybe. Ukraine might be further although ChatGPT is hard to beat.

The 9/11 v Youtube was hard too. One could easily argue 9/11 is the overall winner of all. iphone vs 08 is super hard. Covid is kinda low for me because after it was over the world hadn't changed that much imo it went back to how it was. Same for J16 - it kinda changed nothing. The is also a good case to be made for the arab spring being the overall winner of all.

Who voted on these to get to the final 4?

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