[ExI] My personal "intelligence" failure regarding Bitcoin...

[John Clark]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:04 PM, John Grigg <possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think of myself as a person who knows what is going on in the cutting
> edge of technological development, in large part due to my membership in
> this list, but I don't remember reading anything about Bitcoin here, until
> quite recently.  I feel like this has become an "old fogey" list of people
> who are no longer surfing the edge of real world technological progression,
> at least in a way that can really benefit them.  I suppose I should have
> also been hanging out with the hacker/coder/Libertarian crowd.  But I view
> the Extropy-list as "home."
>

The earliest reference to Bitcoin I can find on this list occurred on
February 26 2011,  Keith Henson gave a Wikipedia link to it and said "I am
slightly surprised I have seen no mention of this, but maybe I missed it".
Eugen Leitl responded with "Not the right list for that".

  John K Clark
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