Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

Twin Singularities: Bitcoin & AI

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Matt McDonagh
Jul 09, 2025
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It all starts, as these things so often do, with a handful of nerds getting unreasonably excited about something no one else understands. Let’s paint the picture.

In one corner of the internet, circa 2010, you have a loose confederation of cryptographers, anarcho-capitalists, and computer science post-docs downloading a clunky piece of software to their …

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