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Satoshi’s error provides opportunities for others only to the extent that they grasp the nature of money and time. Surveying the scene, from Ethereum to Cardano to Hedera to Blockstack and on and on, it is unclear which solutions can work. But we can be confident that amid the cornucopian creativity of the new crypto world, full solutions to the pr

Satoshi was correct in mimicking gold, but because he did not fully grasp the sources of gold’s success, he erred in his parameters for bitcoin.

it was not government that decreed gold as money, rather it is only by holding gold that governments could even issue any form of money at all.”

“Ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s implementation that matters.” The future isn’t just imagined. It is built. Garrett

The crisis of Internet technology today, from Google to Apple, is its broken security model, and Ethereum is not immune to the problem.

Not only was a new science born but also a new economy, based on a new system of the world—the information theory articulated in 1948 by Shannon on the foundations first launched in a room in Königsberg in September 1930. This new system of the world was consummated by the company we know as Google.

As the scale of technology plunges, governments will find that they must compete like corporations for income, charging no more for their services than they are worth to the people who pay for them. The full implications of this change are all but unimaginable.

Ben Horowitz, the son of the truth-telling provocateur David Horowitz, had made his fortune inventing software at VMWare,