On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 7:33 PM, <cryptography-owner@metzdowd.com> wrote:

"This thread is dead as it was an admitted fake news article."

The OP posted snippets of junk journalism. Another poster corrected it with links to source docs and much better journalism. Then another poster posted yet more flaky content. For which a proper counter / alternative is warranted. There's lots of other material relavant to "technical, social, political, security, privacy, legal, multinational aspects of cryptosystems' in that to be completed thread for which the list could ponder lively, and should given cryptocurrency is the newest mass critical cryptosystem out there. Also, "Will We Ever Learn", "The Bob Morris Worm", "Unicode", "Speculation" and many other threads over time questionably met charter as barely mentioning any applied / underlying cryptographic / topical element in them. It's being reposted, witnesseth cypherpunks. Do what you want with it.