Bitcoin Is Just Like the Gutenberg Machine

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Since the invention of the Gutenberg press, Bitcoin has been the most ingenious invention because they both have similar circumstances surrounding them.

Bitcoin came out of a multiple decade long process where all the moving parts were already invented.

The only genius of Satoshi was to combine all these parts.

See also Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree. By Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559

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