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On bitcoin, DeLillo, and a new vision for the systems novel
This post starts out with bitcoin and ends with systems novels...stay with me.
Bitcoin basics
Here are some things I, a novelist, know about Bitcoin, of which I own zero units, and which is now down 50% from its April peak: 1) adding transactions to the blockchain requires so much electricity that adopting it as a global currency poses a not totally insi…