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What the Sony Walkman and Bitcoin have in common

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This is a segment from the Supply Shock newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. 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.…

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What the Sony Walkman and Bitcoin have in common

“Be your own bank” meets “be your own DJ”: The Walkman was sold with the idea that we can be our own anything, anywhere.

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