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Satoshi stood on the shoulders of giants when they built Bitcoin.

Bitcoin could’ve only arrived in 2009 after the World Wide Web came along in 1989, which was only so accessible due to the advent of the microprocessor in the early 1970s. 

All three innovations are echoes of the telegraph.

I’m here to tell you that Sony’s Walkman may have been just as important.

The release of the first Sony Walkman wasn’t exactly on this day. It was yesterday, in 1979, that Sony began selling the TPS-L2 in Japan — a blue, pocket-sized portable cassette player that became a worldwide…

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