D’Angelo did a Bitcoin 101 series back in the day, and IMO by far the most interesting episode was “The $5 cardboard box solution“.

He made a strong case for the ‘71 ‘Sunshine’ legislation creating a game theory situation that massively favored the creation a the DC Lobbyist Blob we are permanently stuck with. A helluva lot of shit flowed downstream from that under-the-radar bit of do-gooder legislation.