Samuel Adams’ Vision For Revolution Fits Into A Bitcoin Economy
The framing of the American Revolution can be adapted to Bitcoin for helping people understand the values of community support and mutual aid.This is an opinion editorial by Frank Nuessle, previously a TV executive, university professor and publishing entrepreneur.This is the second part of an essay that explores lessons to be learned from how Samuel Adams framed the American Revolution and how that same framing can speed the evolution of the vibrant American bitcoin economy that we all know is somewhere invisibly over the horizon. Part one can be found here.Because the United States has....
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