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Bitcoin has the potential to be an innovation on the level of email. Fortunes will be created and destroyed. Companies will rise and fall. Whatever happens at the end, even if bitcoin itself fails, the world is unlikely to be the same.

At the same time, it's fascinating from a purely technical perspective as well. I think as a topic it's a gold mine for interesting conversation, because it touches programming, economics, mathematics, and human psychology all so deeply.



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