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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6272597" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>Ya know, I re-watched that a little while back, and I recall that scene always being portrayed as this really long protracted scream.</p><p></p><p>Instead, it was pretty brief.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I was just being cryptic.</p><p></p><p>But the answer is yes.</p><p></p><p>I think Neil was clued in to crypto-currency back then and smelled the band-wagon before anybody else was. Kind of like how Michael Crichton would pick a technology and advance it just enough to illustrate the scary concern he wanted to base his book on.</p><p></p><p>Certainly when I started hearing about BitCoin, I flashed back to reading Cryptonomicon.</p><p></p><p>As the article about the creator of BitCoin reveals, some of those guys were anti-banking, anti"they control it and make all the money" and now those guys are really rich off of their BitCoin holdings (they get paid in BitCoin for their work).</p><p></p><p>Which reinforces, that whoever controls/manages the money gets to be rich. It's an odd side effect, that these BitCoin guys/business entities may have become the Banks that they were potentially trying to unempower.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6272597, member: 8835"] Ya know, I re-watched that a little while back, and I recall that scene always being portrayed as this really long protracted scream. Instead, it was pretty brief. Anyway, I was just being cryptic. But the answer is yes. I think Neil was clued in to crypto-currency back then and smelled the band-wagon before anybody else was. Kind of like how Michael Crichton would pick a technology and advance it just enough to illustrate the scary concern he wanted to base his book on. Certainly when I started hearing about BitCoin, I flashed back to reading Cryptonomicon. As the article about the creator of BitCoin reveals, some of those guys were anti-banking, anti"they control it and make all the money" and now those guys are really rich off of their BitCoin holdings (they get paid in BitCoin for their work). Which reinforces, that whoever controls/manages the money gets to be rich. It's an odd side effect, that these BitCoin guys/business entities may have become the Banks that they were potentially trying to unempower. [/QUOTE]
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