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netsharctoday at 12:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

Silicon Valley was a place of engineering invention, and then the money-people saw, "Oh, there's riches to be made here!"...


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mrhottakestoday at 12:52 PM

They explicitly built cryptocurrency as a way to hoard more wealth. It was the "engineers" not just the money people.

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dghlsakjgtoday at 12:48 PM

Silicon Valley came up as a result of the military industrial complex in the Cold War.

Money was always the point.