[ExI] Input for article on "The Extropian Roots of Bitcoin"

[Giulio Prisco]

Bryan, what is "the early recommendation of Julian Assange is rather
interesting and possibly extropic"?

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know the Bitcoin audience but I imagine the Extropy audience
>> will be very interested in reading about the less-evident connections.
>
>
> The connections are there for to anyone paying attention. There are just way
> too many extropians involved for it to be a coincidence, like Nick Szabo,
> Wei Dai, Hal Finney, and Perry Metzger. The early recommendation of Julian
> Assange is rather interesting and possibly extropic, but Wikileaks was under
> intense pressure at the time anyway, so he probably found out about Bitcoin
> for that reason.
>
> - Bryan
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