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Re:A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z by efnx on Friday November 28, 2025 @12:09PM (#46080514)
Yeah, which book are we talking about? Reamde features crypto heavily, but I remember having bitcoins at the time it came out.
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Re:A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z by simonw on Friday November 28, 2025 @12:14PM (#46080564)
I imagine this is intended (though if it's AI-generated "intended" doesn't really apply) as a reference 1999's Cryptonomicon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

From that Wikipedia summary:

> Their goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency

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Re:A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z by efnx on Sunday November 30, 2025 @12:48PM (#46098771)
Ah, yeah, I missed that one.
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Re:A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z by nakamoto_damacy on Sunday November 30, 2025 @07:34PM (#46102036)
Digital Cash was invented by David Chaum in 1982, and developed by his company DigiCash in 1990. I read about it years before Cryptonomicon.
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