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For those of you who never saw it:

This post from *1999* on the cypherpunks mailing list pretty much described bitcoin; it was, interestingly, in response to Adam Back saying that the most essential feauture of ecash was not blinding, but non-confiscatability/bearer (reflecting that, unlike many, Back knows what "cash" actually means!).

https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95280154629912&w=2

Note that the post uses 2 spaces after the period :)

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Fascinating. Nice find. Funny how the conceptual work that created bitcoin gets forgotten, and we rebuild ecash on bitcoin with same flaws. Maybe someone will make an ecash on bitcoin with its own blockchain to complete the while loop 😂

Interesting! This person knew about b-money though.

Was that before he went to the pedo island?

Mr. "Never puts the Oven Mitts away" Cliff, B.Sc. 🇨🇦 · 2d

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I'd be willing to bet that Adam was part of team Satoshi. After vanishing for some years he came back in late 2013 playing dumb. But they still got to him making him an offer he couldn't resist. Blockstream was founded to deliver a heavily limited version of Bitcoin. No privacy/fungibility despit...