[Cryptography] Ten years ago today

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh at mimosa.com
Fri Nov 2 13:49:36 EDT 2018


| From: John Levine <johnl at iecc.com>


|   Someone asked what it's good for, Satoshi said you could
| use it to do spam filtering.  I said, no you can't

| 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.

This demonstrates how bitcoin is used for buying drugs, not stamps.  
Vancouver is famous for even stronger drugs.


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