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How Neal Stephenson ‘invented’ Bitcoin in the ‘90s: Author interview
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Neal Stephenson was writing about how Bitcoin-style, cypherpunk digital currency could work when Vitalik was still in diapers. Author Neal Stephenson famously invented the term “Metaverse” with the publication of Snow Crash in 1992 — a year before the World Wide Web or Doom.
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