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Declaring “bitcoin the biggest opportunity since the early Internet,” Andreessen announces that his venture firm—Andreessen Horowitz, which he launched with Ben Horowitz in 2009—has already invested $58 million in bitcoin companies

JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon (“It’s a fraud”), Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger (“It’s rat poison”), and Paul Krugman of Princeton and the New York Times (“It’s evil”) were just the kind of “aging white men” whom Marc Andreessen dissed as dependably wrong about technology “almost 100 percent of the time.”

I disagree with the fundamental moral premise of Maximalism, which is that Bitcoin is the only coin and all other digital assets are sins.145

Perhaps someone should be building an ark. Or perhaps bitcoin is our ark—a new monetary covenant containing the seeds of a new system of the world.