"And then on October 31st of 2008 on Halloween at 2:10 in the afternoon, a paper appeared on an obscure cryptography mailing list. nine pages written by someone who called himself Satoshi Nakamoto. The title was Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic cash system."

… Anybody paying attention could see what was happening. The rules of the game had just been rewritten in plain sight to favor the people who already won. And there was nothing anyone could do about it because the system was the system. There was no exit. There was no alternative. You lived inside the dollar or you lived nowhere. And then on October 31st of 2008 on Halloween at 2:10 in the afternoon, a paper appeared on an obscure cryptography mailing list. nine pages written by someone who called himself Satoshi Nakamoto. The title was Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. And this paper was dense. It was rigorous. It cited prior cryptographic work going back decades. And it described in elegant detail a system that had never existed before in human history. A digital money that could be sent from one person to another anywhere in the world without going through any bank, any government, any intermediary at all. A m …

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