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That ArtForz had not taken advantage of the bug himself was a minor miracle. But it was also what the incentives in the Bitcoin system were designed to encourage. ArtForz had been mining coins himself—using the GPU technology that Laszlo had first pioneered—and he knew that if confidence in the system was undercut his coins would be worthless. The
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In a speech at the August 2013 Turing Festival in Edinburgh, Hearn envisioned an economy composed of autonomous economic agents.
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John Nash, the game theorist and mathematician who later would be immortalized in Sylvia Nasar’s book A Beautiful Mind.
Gregory Zuckerman • The Man Who Solved the Market
tablets went from unusable to useful.
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Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
In a matter of months, Meriwether and his colleagues had lost nearly $2 billion of personal wealth, marks on their careers they would never erase.
Gregory Zuckerman • The Man Who Solved the Market
From the Founding Fathers in politics to the Royal Society in science to Fairchild Semiconductor’s “traitorous eight” in business, small groups of people bound together by a sense of mission have changed the world for the better.