The narrative that persisted last year was that Bitcoin is boring, slow, and rudimentary while ICOs are the wave of the future, and the mania around this hot toy + narrative drove prices into irrational levels.
To me, the best path to fulfilling the dream of Bitcoin as a super decentralized GLOBAL system includes a (totally round) world in which we have plug and play hardware that serves multiple purposes like Francis' miner + furnace above. At the moment, these visions may seem like pipe dreams
There I was, sitting at my desk minding my own business when I got a notification from Twitter user@CupHandleMacro who shared this Medium post with me. Our boy Cup sent me to a 25-minute deep dive into China, The US, The Fourth Turning and Bitcoin that I was not