<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>
extropy-chat mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br>
</blockquote></div></div>
_______________________________________________<br>
extropy-chat mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br>
</blockquote></div>