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 # Bitcoin Is Poetry

The first time I saw Shakespeare's sonnet's I fell in love.

I was awestruck by the smelting  of English and math. 

Each line's a beat box of binary iambic pentameter.

1010101010

Building rhythm and rhymes out of metaphors and alliteration.

The last lines chiseled by indentation.

The first time I saw HTML, I fell in love because it reminded me of poetry.

The first time I saw how hashcash was used in #bitcoin, I fell in love with a new kind of poetry.