Before Bitcoin arrived in 2009, there was a decade of intense experimentation. In the 1990s, visionary cryptographers realized that the internet was becoming a global marketplace, but it lacked a native way to exchange value. We weren't just missing the technology; we were missing the trust architecture. The Problem: The "Double-Spend" & The Privacy Paradox In the physical world, if you hand someone a $20 bill, you no longer have that bill. You cannot spend it twice. In the digital world, money is just data (a file)....
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