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This was in the book Anathem and I agree that it was one of the most intriguing ideas (and there were many in Anathem!). An earlier comment I made about this v
by 2sk21 7y ago
This was in the book Anathem and I agree that it was one of the most intriguing ideas (and there were many in Anathem!).
An earlier comment I made about this very point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14554592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14554592
- RandallBrown 7y agoI had totally forgotten about that part of Anathem! Stephenson has done a pretty amazing job at extrapolating the near future. I'm not sure if the idea of a crypto currency existed before he wrote Cryptonomicon, but that was 10 years before Bitcoin launched.