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by rando_cal 2661 days ago
> For all its downsides, Bitcoin is the last exciting open standard I can remember that has done well and maybe has a future.

I'd argue, though less exciting, that the addition of emojis into Unicode is another such silo-busting standard. Nowadays, if you built a chat client from scratch, you would benefit from the network effects of those standardized emoticons.