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2sk21 on Nov 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll...

This was in the book Anathem and I agree that it was one of the most intriguing ideas (and there were many in Anathem!).

An earlier comment I made about this very point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14554592

RandallBrown on Nov 5, 2019 [–]

I had totally forgotten about that part of Anathem!

Stephenson has done a pretty amazing job at extrapolating the near future. I'm not sure if the idea of a crypto currency existed before he wrote Cryptonomicon, but that was 10 years before Bitcoin launched.

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