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by DebtDeflation 680 days ago
Gates Law variant: "People always overestimate the impact of a new technology in a year and underestimate its impact in ten years."

In 1999 people predicted that the Internet would change everything, in 2000 people called the Internet a flop and made fun of pets.com sock puppets, by 2010 the Internet had in fact changed everything.

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We are more than 10 years in to crypto, and if it all vanished tomorrow, I can’t imagine anything changing other than a few indexes invested in it crashing. And less ransomware I guess.