Without Lincoln, the industrial revolution would have definitely taken a different path and I wonder if overt slavery would have ever been extinguished from the southern states.  My interpretation of history tell's me there would have been more strife and discordance, just delayed.  And that the industrial revolution would have been massively blunted.  And thus, the technological revolution bitcoin would not yet be here.

I'm all for realist takes and Lincoln is was definitely an imperfect human, but this reads a bit more like an overly edgy take on a white-washed world.