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A. LisdorfStill Searching for Satoshihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9639-4_9

9. Social Organization

Anders Lisdorf1  
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Lisdorf Consulting, København SV, Denmark
 

Bitcoin cannot be compared to any other currency in our contemporary world with respect to the social engagement it elicits. Nobody is tweeting incessantly about the Moroccan dirham or engaging in passionate defenses of the Vietnamese dong. Nobody goes to conferences where the theme is the Swedish krona, and nobody lifts a finger to divine the future of the Brunei dollar.

Contrast this with bitcoin, where a substantial subculture has developed that promotes it in every way on social media and ...

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