<story><title>Accelerando (2005)</title><url>https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miki123211</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s kinda wild to me that Stross literally wrote about cryptocurrency, smart contracts (the legal corporations in Accelerando written in Python 3000, AKA what is now called Python3) and cryptocurrency thefts (the robbing of a decentralized bank due to a bug at the beginning of &amp;quot;halting state&amp;quot;). All of this was years before Bitcoin, not to mention Ethereum, which is where most of that smart contract stuff started.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alecco</author><text>&amp;gt; All of this was years before Bitcoin, not to mention Ethereum&lt;p&gt;Cypherpunks were working on this since the 90s (or even 80s). There was a very active mailing list way back then with experiments and a lot of discussions. Bitcoin was revolutionary but it was built on top of a lot of existing work.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cryptocurrency#History&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cryptocurrency#History&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cypherpunk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cypherpunk&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Accelerando (2005)</title><url>https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miki123211</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s kinda wild to me that Stross literally wrote about cryptocurrency, smart contracts (the legal corporations in Accelerando written in Python 3000, AKA what is now called Python3) and cryptocurrency thefts (the robbing of a decentralized bank due to a bug at the beginning of &amp;quot;halting state&amp;quot;). All of this was years before Bitcoin, not to mention Ethereum, which is where most of that smart contract stuff started.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ttepasse</author><text>Stross has a talent for keeping an eye on the weirdos of the net without necessary sharing their belief, so I&amp;#x27;m rather sure he was aware of the Cypherpunks of the 90s where a lot of this stuff originated.</text></comment>