From alaric@snell-pym.org.uk Fri Jul 6 02:37:08 2018 From: Alaric Snell-Pym To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [silk] Bitcoin Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:37:08 +0000 Message-ID: <172289268237.3881296.12422465090964471466.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1801973302584207514==" --===============1801973302584207514== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What do you folks think about Bitcoin? It looks interesting, in that it's a digital currency with no trusted third parties, and all the "rules" (such as: you can't just print your own money) enforced by the fact that only transactions which the majority of computers in the system accept get considered "accepted" globally. There's a process to create new money, which is basically allocated to people via a lottery (and you increase your chances of winning by contributing more CPU power to the algorithms that prevent people cheating, so there's a nice feedback loop), such that the amount of money in the system will, in the long run, tend towards a fixed amount, that will just increases in value by deflating as the economy grows. I've written some thoughts on the implications: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2011/05/12/bitcoin-security/ http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2011/05/16/lords-of-a-new-economy/ http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2011/05/13/aurum/ ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============1801973302584207514==--