[H-GEN] thank you Russell

[Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au]

Does anybody else remember beenz a past internet currency, that failed within a few years of starting?

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> On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 13:33 +1000, Raymond Smith wrote:
> > It seems to be up now -- http://youtu.be/8miy_fdEHTc
> 
> Thanks for letting us know.
> 
> > Also this article came out in the last few days -- it seems Satoshi
> > Nakamoto is a real guy! --
> > http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html
> 
> Or, it could be click bait.  There is very little in the way of
> substantive facts revealed in the story.
> 
> All we know is there is a person whose name could be twisted into
> Satoshi Nakamoto, who loves privacy to the extent he encrypted his
> emails but if he is the real Satoshi used a name that could be tracked
> back to him, and who says did have something (unspecified) to do with
> bitcoin but doesn't now.
> 
> We will see.
> 
> On an unrelated note, Bitcoin exchanges seem to be going broke at the
> rate of 2 a week currently.  The last round apparently didn't bother
> with ACID updates for their account balances, so they was a window
> between when you spent the bitcoin and they debited your balance.  If
> you were quick, you could double spend.  Almost like they all copied
> and
> pasted the code.  Or maybe they all believed the hype and its NoSql all
> the way.
> 
> You could not make this shit up.
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