Finished “The Genesis Book” yesterday and it’s a very well done read Aaron van Wirdum (npub1art…m0w5)
Learned a lot about the incremental failures that Bitcoin was built upon as well as successes.
If you read this and think about all the attempts, the timing, the public apathy, etc this shit shouldn’t even exist, much less have taken off.
Free software could have just remained an obscure MIT lab habit
Cryptography could have remained the domain of the NSA “forever”
Hayek could have given up on his ideas while the rest of the world listened to Keynes and put the future on credit
Etc and so on.
Give it a read.