Mircea Popescu's Most Influential Bitcoin Writing
The late Bitcoin pioneer Mircea Popescu left an indelible, if controversial, legacy in the space, defined largely by his blog posts.Editor's note: This article links to blogs that may contain graphic or offensive content.There's an old saying about the rock band The Velvet Underground — their first album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band. For Mircea Popescu's writing, the same logic holds true. Only 10,000 people may have read his blog Trilema, but everyone who did started a Bitcoin Twitter account. Still, due to the controversy surrounding Popescu (and....
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