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On this day in 2014, Hal Finney passed away.
One of the first to run #Bitcoin, the very first to receive BTC from Satoshi.
A true cypherpunk. 🙏

But who was he? How did he live? More in the thread. 👇

On August 30, 2010, someone sold 30k BTC, dropping the price from $0.06 (on August, 29) to $0.03. bitcointalk archived bitcointalk thread It only took one day for bitcoin's price to recover. historical-cjart There's a non-zero chance that the person behind…

James Gibson’s theory of affordances explains the gap between what technology offers and what it can actually deliver.

Réalisé par Ludovic Lars, un cours complet de 14 vidéos sur l’histoire de la création de Bitcoin est désormais disponible sur Plan B Network. « Dans ce cours, vous découvrirez le cheminement de sa conception, de son lancement et de sa construction économique…

Ninety years later, every Fed decision — from raising rates to curb inflation to cutting them in a downturn — still flows through the framework created in 1935.

Political violence is the unintended yet predictable consequence of UX theory applied to the Attention Economy

Watch full video: https://youtu.be/mayoL3XbKwACapitalism and socialism fought for 50 years and ended up in the same place: AI controlling your life....This v...

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By #Damus #Android…

The understated beauty and whimsy of pixel art typography 🎨 🎮

What two forgotten thinkers can teach us about voice, intent and AI-assisted work.

What mysterious noise did Bell Labs researchers uncover in 1964 that changed our understanding of the universe?