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Equity X-Ray: In-Depth Research #18

Equity X-Ray: In-Depth Research #18

Galaxy Digital (GLXY): Turning digital dust into AI gold. 💰🤖

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Decentralized Dreams & Data Center Dominance: The Next Tech Tsunami

"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed."

William Gibson

William Gibson, cyberpunk’s oracle, wasn't specifically forecasting Bitcoin when he dropped that pearl of wisdom. Yet, his words perfectly frame a seemingly insignificant event from October 2009. A Finn named Martti Malmi, an early Bitcoin collaborator known online as "Sirius," offloaded 5,050 BTC. His grand haul? A mere $5.02. He wasn't splurging on pizza; he was helping bootstrap one of the very first Bitcoin exchanges, NewLibertyStandard. Five bucks for over five thousand coins – each one worth a sliver of a penny.

Forget the overplayed pizza anecdote for a second. This quiet transaction in Helsinki, a barely perceptible tremor in the nascent digital ether, offers a more profound origin story. This wasn't about flashy consumption. Its significance lay in breathing life into a radical idea: that value could be conjured from pure code, zippi…

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