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I think economics is inherently social, and quite possibly the other way around if you really think about it.

I like reading about bitcoin for that reason. It's like real-time and faster version how our societies and monetary systems evolved and the problems they solved. They are reinventing the wheel a lot, but it seems everything new is old...

It always was a social experiment.

Yes, I suppose. If I had only known back in the days, when I started mining back in 2009 with my shiny dual Xeon workstation.

Are you Satoshi? ;)

It's also a good microcosm to learn about real politics. The facades are much more transparent as it's mostly amateurs.

Great analogy. Since bitcoin has no true leader it makes it open to people to chose their leader themselves. It makes it open to huge amount of manipulation too like in religious groups :P

At this point it's basically EVE Online with real money.