The Avant-Garde and Bitcoin: Decentralized Money Didn’t Come From Nowhere

Sep 06 2025 bitcoin


Bitcoin Magazine

The Avant-Garde and Bitcoin: Decentralized Money Didn’t Come From Nowhere

Bitcoin did not emerge in isolation. Its logic — consensus over authority, rules over rulers, time as structure — belongs to a century of experiments once carried out in the avant-garde. Bitcoin wasn’t an accident of code but a century-long attempt to imagine systems beyond authority.

This post The Avant-Garde and Bitcoin: Decentralized Money Didn’t Come From Nowhere first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Steven Reiss.





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