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The September 15/16th 2022 Ethereum merge is perhaps the most significant event for Ethereum since launching the native ETH token, which emerged from an initial coin offering raising around 31,000 BTC equating to around USD 18.3 million in capital at a price of around 0.31 USD/ETH.

Although cryptography played a major role in Entente and Allied victory against the Central and Axis powers in both the First and Second World War by securing and intercepting strategic military communication, cryptography first became a global phenomenon when Satoshi Nakamoto successfully combined politics, mathematics, computer science, economics and hardware technology to invent the first globally adopted first principles Bitcoin blockchain in 2009.

Until the Bitcoin blockchain network was created to form a consensus mechanism based on mathematical encryption to immutably track exact bitcoin ownership without depending on centralized authorities like banks by Satoshi Nakomoto in 2009,  societal consensus was almost exclusively based on God and State.

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 In the book prisoners of geography, author Tim Marshall describes how geopolitical conflicts including hot wars are predicted by geography.

Prior to 2008, investment clubs leveraged asset allocation by spreading risk across asset classes like real estate, equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities to maximize risk and return over time. However, since the creation of bitcoin in 2008, the digital asset space is now a proven new asset class surpassing 1 trillion USD as of June 2022 per Coinmarketcap.

Without an Achilles heel, decentralization limits the ability of malicious corporations to manipulate information stored on central servers without transparency.