I've been wondering every day for the past decade what the "other things" are that he moved on to.
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Who knows.... I have a feeling they are still sort of hiding in plain sight.
Well here's the thing: the Internet decentralized the dissemination of information. Bitcoin decentralized financial information. The next logical step in this trend is to decentralize government. What's he been working on the last 10 years?
Because Bitcoin's "coins" are just software abstractions that represent real world scarce resources denominated in watts, it's going to cause real world decentralization generally. The sociotechnical implications of this are not well understood after ~200 years of increasingly higher scale centralization resulting in nation states.
There are two trends right now: A trend of centralizing political and financial power, and a counter trend of decentralizing systems.
If Bitcoin stays decentralized and secure, and I personally think it will, the level of real world decentralization the planet is going to experience is going to be staggering.
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