[Cryptography] Ten years ago today

[John Levine]

In article <0c2130cf-5bd2-117c-5479-066433d99699 at sonic.net> you write:
>If I'd thought there'd be a nonzero valuation, I'd have actually mined
>it.  I didn't.  Sigh.  Twenty-twenty hindsight.

Same here.  Someone asked what it's good for, Satoshi said you could
use it to do spam filtering.  I said, no you can't (spam filtering by
e-postage is a Well Known Bad Idea), assumed it was yet another crock
and didn't pay further attention.

About a decade later I bought some bitcoins from a vending machine and
then paid for a coffee at a shop near the Vancouver IETF just to see
if I could.

R's,
John