<div dir="auto">Was anyone here on the zero state list? I know there was some overlap between here and there; we talked a lot about bitcoin over there around 2012</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 17, 2022, 2:48 PM Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 8:14 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Gordon weren’t you one of the dozen or so on that cryptocurrency sublist we had in about 1998?</p></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hi spike. I don’t recall being on that sublist but I do recall meeting Hal on this list, which is why I posted. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It was here that I first heard of bitcoin. I did not take it seriously until it rallied in response to the Cyprus banking crisis on 2013. “Wow,” I thought. “Bitcoin is doing exactly what they said it would do!” It was at about $100 at the time. My life has never been the same. I’ve spent many years moderating and participating in cryptocurrency related discussion groups.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="auto">I can think of Mike Butler and Robert Bradbury. I haven’t heard from Mike in probably 15 years and Robert passed in 2011</p></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">I don’t remember Mike but I have good memories of Robert. Sorry to hear he passed.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I’ve been trying to disentangle myself from Twitter and facebook to spend more time here.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><p class="MsoNormal" dir="auto">(doesn’t that blow your mind?) </p></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It sure does. What also blows my mind is that Exi is still mostly the same group it was way back when. Mostly the same names! This is a special group of people.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-gts</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><p class="MsoNormal" dir="auto"><br></p></div></div><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 16 December, 2022 10:57 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Gordon Swobe <<a href="mailto:gordon.swobe@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">gordon.swobe@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Hal Finney twitter account just came back to life<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://decrypt.co/117477/hal-finney-twitter-just-came-back-life" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://decrypt.co/117477/hal-finney-twitter-just-came-back-life</a><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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