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2minutebitcoin on Nostr: Protocols win out. The Romans standardized everything. They built every wagon with ...

Protocols win out.

The Romans standardized everything. They built every wagon with the same parts. The railroad tracks around the world today are the exact same size as a Roman chariot.

Logistic, military, political and monetary protocols allow us to globalize cooperation and free mental bandwidth to focus on other productive things.

Protocols experience path dependence - once they catch on, they have strong inertia.

- an excerpt from the 2-minute version of https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/saylor-series-the-rise-of-man-through-the-stone-and-iron-ages-episode-1-2020
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