Quote from: Multifarious on May 03, 2013, 02:53:54 AM

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No to really change the world we need something better, humbler, deeper. I only wish everybody here had read Neil Stephenson's Novels...

I am a big Stephenson fan, and I am re-reading Cryptonomicon right now to give me a different frame for looking at Bitcoin. In your mind, what makes the fictional e-banking system they plan on running through the Crypt 'better & deeper' than the possibilities of Bitcoin?

Some way to form a social structure around it, in Diamond Age banking was tied to being a member of a phyle, It should encourage more cooperation in contrast to competition, IDK, but if I knew exactly I would probably be busy trying to code it,