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Bitcoin white paper analogy for her publication

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Anonymity removes the central point of attack

Shaan argues Satoshi Nakamoto's anonymity is why Bitcoin succeeded: a known founder or company would have created a central point of attack to shut it down or question motives. Sam notes a ~$1 trillion asset was created under a fake name.

If there was a person who had created Bitcoin or a company that had created Bitcoin, I would bet anything that it would not have had the success it's had so far because there would have been a sort of central point of attack where you could go shut it down. You could question their motives.
EP 154 · 19:09 · SHAAN
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One paper, three companies: the Satoshi-like mRNA white paper

Shaan likens Karikó's mRNA paper to Satoshi's Bitcoin white paper — a single publication that simultaneously triggered light-bulb moments at Moderna and BioNTech (which licensed her tech and made her a VP), spreading the breakthrough worldwide.

So imagine how cool this is. It's like Satoshi with the Bitcoin white paper. She just publishes this scientific paper, and then people all around the world are reading this, and the light bulb is going off simultaneously with 3 different companies at once to say, oh my God, this is going to change everything.
EP 144 · 21:14 · SHAAN
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