After reading The Genesis Book I find myself going back to it again and again. I find the cypherpunk stuff compelling, and my crappy memory causes me to keep forgetting details. Then I go off on these little tangents. I really liked this Szabo article about his Bit Gold creation
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70 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Jan
nakamoto institute library is amazing !
Here some other good resources about Bitcoin history:
- The untold history of Bitcoin: Enter the Cypherpunks
- To the Moon
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 8 Jan
That first article was great. I know you're an older guy like me. Were you ever on those PGP usenet groups in the early 90s? I remember being on them because I was a libertarian lawyer and I wanted to use encrypted emails for client communications. I loved the idea, but EVERY ONE of my clients thought it was too big a pain in the ass to encrypt emails! I never used it except with other PGP fans, and the messages we would encrypt were ridiculous and not very interesting😀
Do you know if those old usenets are archived anywhere? I'd like to look around and see if I can find a young me on there.
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 9 Jan
Unfortunately my internet journey started around 92-93. I was just escaping from the communist regime, young, poor and the priorities were others those years.
Very confusing times.
But yeah around 1995 I had my first PC ever paying a fortune for it. And yes I was using the BBS but the internet dialup was terrible those times. The infrastructure was barely starting to be improved.
Later I get to learn more and more about servers and going deep into this IT stuff, pgp encryption, email servers. In 2004 I was already the sys admin for a big company with many servers. It was fun.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 8 Jan
It really is. What a great resource for researching bitcoin history.
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 9 Jan
Interesting article. It made me realize I didn't know how we would infer the past difficulty on the Bitcoin network.
I found this which answers a bit:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
The answer of ChatGPT o1 I had was quite good also.
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 8 Jan
Wow, what an interesting read, thanks for bringing it to us.
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 8 Jan
Another good one. Yes I love Bitcoin archaeology also
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 8 Jan
indeed.
The book is so freakin' rich with important Bitcoin components
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