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The Number Zero and Bitcoin | Episode 1 | (WiM302)
The "What is Money?" Show
The Unstoppable Idea of Zero
With trade networks proliferating and productivity escalating in tandem, growing prospects of wealth creation incentivized merchants to become increasingly competitive. Lacking zero detracted from a numeral system's capacity to maintain constancy of meaning as it scales. Inclusion of zero enables other digits to take on new meaning according to their position relative to it. Like its distant progeny Bitcoin would later be, zero was an unstoppable idea whose time had come.
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