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Of all time? This almost certainly isn't true. Many treaties, laws, RFCs, and so on would be more impactful than Bitcoin. Do we really think the Bitcoin white
by jxf 4y ago
Of all time? This almost certainly isn't true. Many treaties, laws, RFCs, and so on would be more impactful than Bitcoin.
Do we really think the Bitcoin white paper is more impactful than, say, the Magna Carta or Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses? I think you might be inadvertently succumbing to recency bias.
- carabiner 4y ago1. The Holy Bible 2. Bitcoin white paper 3. US Constitution
- stevev 4y agoThis is the way
- littlestymaar 4y agoYou dropped the "/s"
- MagicMoonlight 4y agoMost of the significant laws like “don’t stab people” were never written down because they’re so obviously the law. So I reckon there is space in the top 100.
- jxf 4y agoMany of these laws were, in fact, written down a very long time ago. That's how they became laws in the first place! [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi
- aldanor 4y ago(Not trying to defend the grandparent's comment, but) You might be also succumbing to the country bias – outside of UK/US, most people wouldn't have ever heard and wouldn't care about ML's 95 or Magna Carta, and it's not going to impact their present and future life in any way.
- jxf 4y ago> (Not trying to defend the grandparent's comment, but) You might be also succumbing to the country bias – outside of UK/US, most people wouldn't have ever heard and wouldn't care about ML's 95 or Magna Carta I think you're underestimating the colossal, compounding effect that these have had over the centuries. It would be very surprising to me if, say, Germans did not learn about the Ninety-Five Theses, considering that it was a seminal event in German history. Just because it's not obviously affecting your life right now does not mean it was not impactful in dramatically changing the course of history.