is not entirely a myth. It is actually the power of the state to enforce it as money, which makes it money. And then I think that there are myths on top of it that give it value, or give it much more value than that. But let's talk about money as a sort of communal, non-enforced consensus. Yes, it is mythology. And I think what I see in the crypto community, which is interesting, is this kind of wink-nod thing, like, hey, we all know this is bullshit, but my bullshit is better than your bullshit. And so we're all just going to pump our bullshit here. And then eventually, because we're so religiously fervent, we're such devotees that we're going to convert more and more people into our faith. And once we get enough people, then you're going to get the FOMO. I don't want to be left out the gates of heaven. I don't want to be on scorched earth. And this is very much the ideology. What fascinates me about crypto, among other things, that Bitcoin actually specifically, is the extent to (52/97)
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