Does anyone know if there are screens floating around of the original referral programs that Paypal ran via email in the early 2000s?
The ones where an end user would receive something like "claim XXX dollars by signup up"
One of the most underrated trends that predicated the rise of stablecoins is how all charts starting around ~2021 were denominated in USD or BTC/ETH
No one concerned themselves with EUR, JPY or other denominations
Finished this book by Anne Goldgar and didn't realize Tulipmania as we know it was mostly untrue? Or at least the interpretations we get from Madness of Crowds
Reminds me of when NFTs went crazy in 2021. Plenty of think-pieces but in reality, volume was driven by a small cohort of individuals