<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div>On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 5:00 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><a href="https://email.mg1.substack.com/c/eJxNUMuOhSAM_ZrL7hpAHrpgMZv5DYNQlYwC4THGvx-8biZp2qav03OMLrCGdKkYckG3m8oVQXk48w6lQEI1Q5qcVRyLQUpkFZbUyBm5PC0J4NBuVyjWeXdGFxf8PcuYJCNBm-qpMCMhi53lLIeRi97SvjmxWCysIA-krtaBN6DgF9IVPKBdbaXE_Oq_XvS72XmeXanJ-dVsNZmtM-Fo5Qgh7tCS57n36uruwjsml01ATlFMCR4xJ5hjJjrS9VJLpgUxIEbNOQhqGWGzFrAMFBb5YvhYSZfrnIs2PzcMSuo523rrzfZTbISnFo_qXbkm8HrewaqSKqDyiPlRZlrBQ2oi20kXRUSPh37ETHI2PNRvsfBI-SAJaqg2tC2v_lP9A_ydi-4" style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Giulio</a>, I had no idea you had been so involved with Bitcoin! It was through the MTA that I was first exposed to it in April of 2010. But I unfortunately did not see outside the box, and grok the financial potential. On my future deathbed I will still be kicking myself about that... I do hope Bitcoin and some of the altcoins can be used to help people in the third world. </font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think I must have sent something about Bitcoin to this list back in 2009. I also alerted the MTA list and introduced many people there to Bitcoin. But I wasn't imaginative and optimist enough to realize that Bitcoin would become a big thing in the real world. It was more of a fun intellectual exercise to me.<br></div><div>So imagine my surprise when a few years later (2013 or so) I found out that the BTC I had mined was worth real money! I cashed out because I needed money. If I hadn't cashed out I would be a *very* rich man today, but thinking about this is useless now. I prefer to think that Bitcoin gave me money when I needed it.<br></div><div>There was not much discussion on Bitcoin on this list at the beginning. Of course there was Hal, but I don't remember Hal posting much about Bitcoin here.</div><div>G.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-zIbVEjVpQ" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-zIbVEjVpQ</a> </font><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 4:00 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Giulio Prisco from Turing Church</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:turingchurch@substack.com" target="_blank">turingchurch@substack.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 12:50 PM<br>Subject: Bitcoin el salvador?<br>To: <<a href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com" target="_blank">giulio@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="font-kerning:auto"><img src="https://mailgun.substack.com/api/v1/email/open?token=eyJtIjoiPDIwMjEwOTA1MTA1MDQ2LjEuMzdhNzRhNjFjZTY5YTU1ZTYyZDQxNGJhNmVmODJlZjdAbWcxLnN1YnN0YWNrLmNvbT4iLCJ1Ijo1MDY4NzcsInIiOiJnaXVsaW9AZ21haWwuY29tIiwiZCI6Im1nMS5zdWJzdGFjay5jb20iLCJwIjo0MDkyNTg3MSwicyI6NDQ3MTkxLCJjIjoicG9zdCIsImYiOmZhbHNlLCJpYXQiOjE2MzA4MzkwNDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0wIiwic3ViIjoiZW8ifQ.m6_W-_hOSnjg5jzYLn7qoQCcdyHToKlB4tpo4GZKV14" alt="" style="height: 1px; width: 1px; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="1" height="1" border="0"><div style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1px;max-height:0px;max-width:0px;opacity:0;overflow:hidden">No Bitcoin won't Save The World, but perhaps it will make the world a bit better. </div><table role="presentation" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td></td><td width="550"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td width="550" align="left"><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px auto;max-width:550px;width:100%"><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px;padding:9px 0px"><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px"><h1 style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"SF Compact Display",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:2em;font-weight:bold;line-height:130%;margin:0.378em 0px 0px"><a href="https://email.mg1.substack.com/c/eJxNkkFvozAQhX9NuBXZYGM4-NBNUokoCWlVNclekDEDcSEGgQmFX7-muaw09kjP72kkfyOFgbLpJt42vXGWKzVTC1zD2NdgDHTO0EOXqpxTFISMOTlHzJMsc1SfFh3AXaiaO-2Q1UoKoxq9eAlhOMLOjaOsoAUBloUoojminkRFHkUFkgSzzC-eI8WQK9ASODygmxoNTs1vxrT9yn9deW-2xnF0zdApXcrb0MmbK5u7lVt7MmVko_QL1C-9qB8ib7qV_2aaCvTK38C0w9L7mi5eXcXfDT5sruQ4yz7Wfx7S_yjE-V0l3-9j8hnjZCN_9utde70s2tY7zK_kMFfjcWP993qWUxzYHL4qhKz2k3xulfXP-TlWidqNmX9E-8uuvp6PSJyjIdbI3R7W2ZYqtqcPvIOvoKiSjzmYzn9JeUKn62kt9lCh8WdgoaO4hzyMIkQxoogELnZ9JhgRAZYQRIJSCLycYJKJAIrQg4KtCLqX2O2HrDdCVsu3OB0v1VCrxr6VC51f0QJKbb8PWpkpBS2yGnJuugEc84T_SzItQUNnlyJPheE48FHoR4gwSsInqgUuijwaMuzYqXljU5r_j-Yf-FjHOQ" style="color:rgb(26,26,26);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Bitcoin el salvador?</a></h1><h3 style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:"SF Compact Display",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.16em;margin:4px 0px 0px">No Bitcoin won't Save The World, but perhaps it will make the world a bit better.</h3><table style="margin:1em 0px"><tbody><tr><td><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px"><a href="https://email.mg1.substack.com/c/eJxNUMuOhSAM_ZrL7hpAHrpgMZv5DYNQlYwC4THGvx-8biZp2qav03OMLrCGdKkYckG3m8oVQXk48w6lQEI1Q5qcVRyLQUpkFZbUyBm5PC0J4NBuVyjWeXdGFxf8PcuYJCNBm-qpMCMhi53lLIeRi97SvjmxWCysIA-krtaBN6DgF9IVPKBdbaXE_Oq_XvS72XmeXanJ-dVsNZmtM-Fo5Qgh7tCS57n36uruwjsml01ATlFMCR4xJ5hjJjrS9VJLpgUxIEbNOQhqGWGzFrAMFBb5YvhYSZfrnIs2PzcMSuo523rrzfZTbISnFo_qXbkm8HrewaqSKqDyiPlRZlrBQ2oi20kXRUSPh37ETHI2PNRvsfBI-SAJaqg2tC2v_lP9A_ydi-4" target="_blank"><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_90,h_90,c_fill,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F251b4fe5-ed0e-4851-b589-5d1f949ad159_1573x1573.jpeg" alt="" style="border-radius: 50%; display: block; height: 45px; max-width: 550px; vertical-align: middle; width: 45px; border: medium none;" width="45" height="45"></div></a></div></td><td><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:1em;margin-left:12px"><div style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px"><a href="https://email.mg1.substack.com/c/eJxNUMuOhSAM_ZrL7hpAHrpgMZv5DYNQlYwC4THGvx-8biZp2qav03OMLrCGdKkYckG3m8oVQXk48w6lQEI1Q5qcVRyLQUpkFZbUyBm5PC0J4NBuVyjWeXdGFxf8PcuYJCNBm-qpMCMhi53lLIeRi97SvjmxWCysIA-krtaBN6DgF9IVPKBdbaXE_Oq_XvS72XmeXanJ-dVsNZmtM-Fo5Qgh7tCS57n36uruwjsml01ATlFMCR4xJ5hjJjrS9VJLpgUxIEbNOQhqGWGzFrAMFBb5YvhYSZfrnIs2PzcMSuo523rrzfZTbISnFo_qXbkm8HrewaqSKqDyiPlRZlrBQ2oi20kXRUSPh37ETHI2PNRvsfBI-SAJaqg2tC2v_lP9A_ydi-4" style="color:rgb(26,26,26);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Giulio Prisco</a></div><table style="margin:0px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td title="2021-09-05T10:50:46.755Z" style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px;font-weight:300;height:20px;line-height:20px;padding:0px 12px 0px 0px;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:middle;white-space:nowrap">Sep 5</td><td style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:14px;font-weight:300;height:20px;line-height:20px;padding:0px 12px 0px 0px;text-decoration:none;text-indent:3px;vertical-align:middle;white-space:nowrap"><span><a href="https://email.mg1.substack.com/c/eJxNUttuozAQ_Zrw1sg25vbgh25pd0kTstmNQtMXZOwJcQsGgZ2UfP2adldayZqR5nJmjucIbqDuhon13Wi82ZRm6oFpuI4NGAODZ0cYSiVZgMI4ijzJUEREVHlqLE8DQMtVw7zeVo0S3KhOz7WURjjB3pn5oaQoJhxTVFGcoITwuIKECh9ohCj_GsmtVKAFMLjAMHUavIadjenHhX-_IE_uXa_XpbGD0rU420Gcl6JrXZj3ytkLdmYGcu5zn7sBuJh3WfhPpnsH51OYVliQw_RCmvfsrcOb9Ejzmxgz_e0i_F8nXuzU9m133e4zvE3Fx_phNb0WT2_ye3OpVBZm9ln2D9mYtc1ZPmThZn-8bdL6tt3fo3y6Kv6S3xyuEj8Oar3fofz2GGx-u3qd4-Pcr1fNscgRLxKbabQc_aJID-tXvdrt-sctabsO_TzKQ9rU8jm9o2aXW7Jt10WbLUhoTVuOnWMOjspoq9Fw8f433oJUtp0pztw9xQgiGCUowChANFzipR_xiPIQCwgTHgQQEkkxrXgIp5jAKVpQ1NZ4-Q93_lxvYLWyjepcrp5xP4PuzKXzrdXKTCVoXjUgmRkseOZLQp87lDVoGJy0ZMkNw6GPYj9BNApo_HXwWSJOC0EcYc9NlZ3r0uz_A_8B2k7fhw" style="color:rgb(117,117,117);display:block;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_30,c_scale,f_png,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Ficon%2FHeartIcon%3Fv%3D2%26height%3D40%26strokeWidth%3D2" style="float: left; 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height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 550px; vertical-align: middle; width: 100%; border: medium none;" width="550"></a></td><td style="text-align:center"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em"></p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">I was a very early adopter of Bitcoin. I started weeks after Satoshi’s whitepaper magically appeared in a cryptography mailing list.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">If I still had the BTC that I mined at the time I would be very rich today, but I wanted to use and spend my BTC to stimulate the nascent Bitcoin economy. I have written Bitcoin software, consulted and participated in many projects. For years I made a good living as a journalist and editor for the Bitcoin trade press.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">Been there, done that. At some point I lost interest and stopped. What pushed me out was the attitude of those for whom Bitcoin was the most important things in the world. Or maybe the only important thing. Or maybe the God of their religion.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">I have edited (out) suggestions that wars and natural or social catastrophes were “good for Bitcoin” and therefore Good. Good! With an exclamation mark of course. Many exclamation marks.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">I really wish for less exclamation marks and more question marks in the Bitcoin press. At some point I was really fed up. In fact, this is the first post about Bitcoin that I have written in years.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">No, Bitcoin is NOT the most important thing in the world. Sorry for the true believers in the Bitcoin God out there, but many things are much more important than Bitcoin. MUCH more important.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">Having said that, I think Bitcoin IS important. Not the most important thing, but an important thing. Bitcoin is also a good example of how radical, unexpected technological innovation can be a social force for good. A parallel economy relatively independent of Big Government and Big Business, with working interfaces to the mainstream economy, can do good to many people.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">And this is the role of Bitcoin in my religion: one of many tools that we can use to make the world a bit better. And we can use all our tools together to make the world much better, a little bit a time.</p><h2 style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"SF Compact Display",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:1.625em;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.16em;margin:1em 0px 0.625em">El Salvador</h2><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">I used to say that Bitcoin would really take off after being adopted by a nation state (even a small one) as official currency. Not a new cryptocurrency issued by a central bank (like China is doing), but the real Bitcoin independent of nations and central banks.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">This is what is expected to happen in El Salvador in a few days. <a href="https://email.mg1.substack.com/c/eJwlUEtuhTAMPM3LrigJ-cAii256DZSPgaiQoOAUcfuG9yTLlse2xjPeIiy53ObIJ5InTXgfYBJc5waIUEg9oUwxGEnVoDUJhmrutSPxnOYCsNu4GXJUt0VvMeb07Aqh2cjIapxzwTkagpt7zxVnDeBWwiik50GGD6WtIULyYOAPyp0TkM2siMf56r9f_KfFdV2dc77zeW_d810rCH5NecvL_SUH0Q-SSxINp5zRkUpGJRWqY12vrRZWMQ9qtFKC4kEw4ayCeeAw65eg-8K6s7oTrf99OEgxS6xbzG22PArfYBM5tbrXFPGeIFm3QTBYKhD8GPh2Y1ogQWnGhsmiYaqnQz9SoaUYPnIfg-jI5aAZaawht6tksJaYFr_W4td_JkaIHw" rel="" style="color:rgb(26,26,26);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">There are dissenting voices and event protests of course</a>, so we’ll have to wait and see what happens. But this could be a real game changer.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">Poor families in El Salvador could live with Bitcoin remittances sent from family members abroad. This happens already of course, but will be much easier and safer when Bitcoin is officially supported by the government.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">I took the cover picture at a place that accepts Bitcoin in a food market. These places exist everywhere, but only tech-savvy people can buy there. If the Bitcoin plan in El Salvador goes through as planned, eventually everyone will be able to use Bitcoin to buy food and things.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">El Salvador could become a player and a first mover in the new economy that, one way or another, is bound to emerge. It’s evident that things can’t continue as they are now. We need to experiment with many alternative economies. Many will fail the real-world test, but some will work. The move of El Salvador could enable and protect many new business models that are only waiting for something like this to happen. This would attract wealthy foreign investors to the country.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">I’ll hopefully wait and see is Bitcoin will become el salvador (the savior) of El Salvador, and then of other nations as well.</p><div style="font-size:16px;line-height:26px"><hr style="background:rgb(223,233,246) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;border:medium none;height:1px;margin:24px 0px;padding:0px"></div><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px 0px 1em">Cover picture by the author.</p><p style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0px"></p></div></div><table style="margin:0px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;font-weight:300;height:30px;line-height:30px;padding:7px 16px 7px 0px;text-decoration:none;text-indent:3px;vertical-align:middle;white-space:nowrap"><span><a href="https://email.mg1.substack.com/c/eJxNUttuozAQ_Zrw1sg25vbgh25pd0kTstmNQtMXZOwJcQsGgZ2UfP2adldayZqR5nJmjucIbqDuhon13Wi82ZRm6oFpuI4NGAODZ0cYSiVZgMI4ijzJUEREVHlqLE8DQMtVw7zeVo0S3KhOz7WURjjB3pn5oaQoJhxTVFGcoITwuIKECh9ohCj_GsmtVKAFMLjAMHUavIadjenHhX-_IE_uXa_XpbGD0rU420Gcl6JrXZj3ytkLdmYGcu5zn7sBuJh3WfhPpnsH51OYVliQw_RCmvfsrcOb9Ejzmxgz_e0i_F8nXuzU9m133e4zvE3Fx_phNb0WT2_ye3OpVBZm9ln2D9mYtc1ZPmThZn-8bdL6tt3fo3y6Kv6S3xyuEj8Oar3fofz2GGx-u3qd4-Pcr1fNscgRLxKbabQc_aJID-tXvdrt-sctabsO_TzKQ9rU8jm9o2aXW7Jt10WbLUhoTVuOnWMOjspoq9Fw8f433oJUtp0pztw9xQgiGCUowChANFzipR_xiPIQCwgTHgQQEkkxrXgIp5jAKVpQ1NZ4-Q93_lxvYLWyjepcrp5xP4PuzKXzrdXKTCVoXjUgmRkseOZLQp87lDVoGJy0ZMkNw6GPYj9BNApo_HXwWSJOC0EcYc9NlZ3r0uz_A_8B2k7fhw" style="color:rgb(117,117,117);display:block;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><img src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_45,c_scale,f_png,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Ficon%2FHeartIcon%3Fv%3D2%26height%3D60%26strokeWidth%3D2" style="float: left; 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