{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"hodlbod (npub1jl…jynqn)","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"To contextualize the adoption of cryptography:\n\n- Public key crypto was invented in 1976\n- Bitcoin was invented in 2009, 33 years later\n- In 2025 (49 years later), cryptography is still a niche topic\n\n- The printing press was invented around 1440\n- By 1470 (30 years later), a handful of presses had been established in major cities\n- In 1500 (60 years later), there were only 417 presses\n- By the 1550s (110 years later), printing presses were in use globally\n\nTransformational technologies go through a period of obscurity, then centralized control, then eventually become universally accessible. My hope is that we are just coming out of the centralized control phase of cryptography and the internet."}