Ten years ago today Satoshi Namamoto sent a note to this list about his new P2P ecash proposal. Whatever happened to it? http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html R's, John _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

In article <0c2130cf-5bd2-117c-5479-066433d99699@sonic.net> you write: >If I'd thought there'd be a nonzero valuation, I'd have actually mined >it. I didn't. Sigh. Twenty-twenty hindsight. Same here. Someone asked what it's good for, Satoshi said you could use it to do spam filtering. I said, no you can't (spam filtering by e-postage is a Well Known Bad Idea), assumed it was yet another crock and didn't pay further attention. About a decade later I bought some bitcoins from a vending machine and then paid for a coffee at a shop near the Vancouver IETF just to see if I could. R's, John _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

| From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> | Someone asked what it's good for, Satoshi said you could | use it to do spam filtering. I said, no you can't | About a decade later I bought some bitcoins from a vending machine and | then paid for a coffee at a shop near the Vancouver IETF just to see | if I could. This demonstrates how bitcoin is used for buying drugs, not stamps. Vancouver is famous for even stronger drugs. _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography