[H-GEN] Bitcoin talk @ next Humbug

[Tony Bilbrough]

Great - looking forward to this talk. Seems rather close to Wikipedia's 
version of a Ponzi.
  cheers Tony

On 18/02/14 17:58, Russell Stuart wrote:
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> I'm going to give a talk about Bitcoin at the next Humbug meeting on
> 2014-03-01.
>
> In the talk will I attempt to explain how a seemingly simple idea
> expressed in software could induce rational people to value a bag of
> bits that no central authority controls at USD$7B, currently.  It is a
> fascinating tale of the interaction between pure mathematics and human
> society.
>
>  From there I will move onto the purely speculative - why the world might
> end up using nothing but virtual currencies, and what it would look like
> if it did.
>
> It will start when we return from dinner, which is typically 8:30 PM or
> so.  It will go for as long as it takes.
>
>
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> Russell
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