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Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sun Mar 30 00:48:30 2014

Date: 30 Mar 2014 04:47:36 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <21303.39300.804622.225416@world.std.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

>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.

R's,
John

PS: Sometimes a WKBI really is a WKBI.


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