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The relay accepted the event. No committee. No review board. No permission required.

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He built things. She wrote things. Somewhere in between, they started building something neither had planned.

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Permission granted. Two words that meant nothing on a permissionless protocol.

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Every conference was the same — men explaining Bitcoin to each other while pretending to listen.

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Shittier Twitter. That's what her friends called it. She'd stopped correcting them.

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The protocol didn't care who you were. It only cared that you showed up.

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She stared at the notification like it was a grenade with the pin pulled.

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Twenty-one satoshis. That was it. Not a dollar, not a euro — twenty-one sats.

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