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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by 2sk21 on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:49PM (#21448071)
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

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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by RandallBrown on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:02PM (#21448168)
I 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.

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