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A firsthand reflection on writing blockchain whitepapers during the ICO boom, and on becoming an unlikely author of futures that did not yet exist.
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During the ICO boom, whitepapers moved from technical documents to world-building tools: part pitch deck, part manifesto, part speculative fiction. This essay revisits what it felt like to write them from the inside.