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you could say that. in the original white paper the inspiration seems to be mostly for alternative payments

True. Although the idea of cryptocurrencies is older. Anyway, Hayek would be happy for sure.

Agree. The idea of cryptos didn't emerge from satoshi. He just solved a problem in computer science which already existed and was known. This problem consisted in building a decentralized network, however i forgot the name of the problem.