> For all its downsides, Bitcoin is the last exciting open standard I can remember that has done well and maybe has a future. I'd argue, though less exciting,

> For all its downsides, Bitcoin is the last exciting open standard I can remember that has done well and maybe has a future. I'd argue, though less exciting, that the addition of emojis into Unicode is another such silo-busting standard. Nowadays, if you built a chat client from scratch, you would benefit from the network effects of those standardized emoticons.