What a Wonderful World with Marcus Chown
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Channel: The Royal Institution
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Published: Wed Sep 16 2015
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You can tell a guy is a hardcore nerd when his name is an actual linux command.
Sort of interesting and I note that the Futures markets might be related to his idea.
Indeed, money is a very interesting thing and ideas about it have changed a lot. I was re-reading Levenson's book about Newton, which focuses on his tenure at the Mint. Apparently paper money was just introduced in England in the late 1600s and was initially greeted with skepticism since people were used to silver and gold coins. But paper money indeed caught on.
I can't see how something like Bitcoin will not be an important form of money in the future; even more obvious to me is that money will continue to change and the Internet and its future forms will probably require new forms of money/payments.
In other words, it's crazy to imagine we have seen the end of change in money and Bitcoin seems like it has come along at the right time indeed.