Wow, interesting point. Read Cryptonomicon so long ago, didn't clue in to the connection with crypto/blockchain. I think my take on it was more just that he ca

Wow, interesting point. Read Cryptonomicon so long ago, didn't clue in to the connection with crypto/blockchain. I think my take on it was more just that he called the virtualverse "metaverse", where 10 years before the idea behind it was in "True Names" by Vinge, as the "Other Plane", and Gibson's "Neuromancer" with "matrix"