Backstage pass: The yoink heard round the world
Vitalik manifests // Morgan Stanley // Michael and me // Truthonometry // Razzlehearts beat as one
11 years ago this week, bitcoin was $264.20.
The 11th largest coin was counterparty.
The 111th was diode.
Vitalik said a thing
Back in 2017, when I first joined CoinDesk, we would put out a story any time Vitalik wrote a blog post or had a good tweet. We called these Vitalik-said-a-thing stories. The readership always pounced.
Vitalik has hit roughly Boutros Boutros-Ghali tier now, but in those days he was more like Geek Jim Morrison with a side of Jim Jones.
But people still care when Vitalik says a thing, just in a different way, and this week he said a thing.
He said: It’s easy for a large institution to gradually drift away from its ideals. Like how the USA was founded on the notions of “don’t tread on me” and “no taxation without representation” yet we’ve somehow become mired in a 100-year-long fight over just what exactly the Department of Agriculture should be telling kids to eat.
Is it 7s? Is it 4s? Is it a pyramid? Is it even real?
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