[170555] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Sun Mar 30 13:03:51 2014
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 13:03:07 -0400
To: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140330044736.5192.qmail@joyce.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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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