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The Number Zero and Bitcoin | Episode 1 | (WiM302)

The "What is Money?" Show

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Zero and the Rise of the Nation-State

Christianity initially refused to accept Zero, as it was linked to a primal fear of the void. As trade began to flourish and generate unprecedented levels of wealth in the world, math moved from purely practical applications to ever more abstracted functions. In an echo of history, us moderns can once again hear the discovery of nothing beginning to change everything. Felled by an unstoppable idea, this oppressive institution's fall from grace would make way for the rise of the nation-state.

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