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"Snow Crashing Into The Metaverse" from Imaginary Worlds

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Snow Crash, Is There Anything We Can Learn From Snow Crush?

Stephen Pimentel's novel Snow Crash imagines a future where people have more faith in decentralized currencies than the US dollar. Grace Aang is an example of how this is playing out now, he says. She's part of a group that created NFTs called CrashPunks that you can buy using Stax,. which is an open source blockchain for Bitcoin transactions.

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