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The Corruption of Simplicity: How Finance Absorbed Bitcoin
Bitcoin began as the cleanest value proposition in the history of money. Fixed supply. No counterparty. You held it, or you didn’t. What the financial system has since constructed around that simple premise — ETFs, perpetuals, structured notes, wrapped tokens, leveraged proxies — is a masterclass in how complexity gets added back to things specifically designed to eliminate it. This is an attempt to account for some of it.
Dan Bruce
10 hours ago9 min read
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