The Number Zero and Bitcoin | Episode 1 | (WiM302)
The "What is Money?" Show
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The Influence of Zero on the Visual Arts
At the beginning of the Renaissance, the threat to zero was not obvious. By then, zero had been adapted as an artistic tool to create the vanishing point. With the concept of zero, artists could create a zero dimension point in their work that was infinitely far from the viewer and into which all objects in the painting visually collapsed. The criticality of zero to ancient encryption systems is yet another aspect of Bitcoin's ancestral heritage.
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