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Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 13:03:07 -0400
On March 30, 2014 at 04:47 johnl () iecc com (John Levine) wrote:
When people talked of "virtual currency" over the years, often arguing that it's too hard a problem, how many described bitcoin with its cryptographic mining etc?None, but it shouldn't be hard to look at the way bitcoin works and realize why it'd be phenomenally ill suited for e-postage, just for technical reasons. I told Satoshi so in 2009.
I wasn't suggesting bitcoin was a model for e-postage, only that a lot of papers were written saying systems like bitcoin were more or less impossible (usually based on the double-spending problem.) But bitcoin seems to have gained quite a bit of traction nonetheless though it may well still be a bad idea. The problem is the world is a very sloppy place and tends to function in spite of proofs that "bumblebees can't fly" etc. when there's a need.
R's, John PS: Sometimes a WKBI really is a WKBI.
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