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Camila Russo
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“The inventors of JavaScript never intended for someone to build Gmail, or Facebook or Bitcoin wallets on top of it. We don’t know what people will build on top of Ethereum, but the idea is that they will be decentralized and unstoppable applications.”
― The Infinite Machine
― The Infinite Machine
“Who could I turn to? Around that time, a colleague in another office told me about some weird digital currency called Bitcoin, which Argentines were using to get around this problem. I decided to write about it. The people I talked with for my article had been living with some form of inflation and/or currency controls all their lives and so had their parents. They understood right away how significant it was to be able to buy a currency that’s not controlled by anyone and, therefore, can’t be stopped or seized. Its issuance rate was dictated by algorithms and computer code, not by the whims of politicians and central bankers.”
― The Infinite Machine
― The Infinite Machine
“In March 2011, the community gained a new member. Vitalik Buterin was seventeen years old, and his first post on the BitcoinTalk forum said: On the subject of economics, I could write about the concept like the social taboos around money and the practical inconvenience of paying anything less than about $5 with conventional tools like credit cards or PayPal ( . . . ) and how Bitcoin offers a way to fix this.5”
― The Infinite Machine
― The Infinite Machine
