Did you know? Nick Szabo described bit gold in 1998, years before Bitcoin, as a way to turn costly computation into scarce digital units without a central issuer. The clever part was not just digital money, it was the idea that scarcity could be produced and verified on the internet itself. Bit gold never became a live system, but it helped sharpen the cypherpunk question of how to make value native to the network. If money can be engineered as a protocol, what else have we been treating as a state monopoly by habit?

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