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Dupes from 2022 and 2023: #68842, #163456 but feel like sharing it again as I just recommended it to someone outside of SN.

Does anyone know if Krugman still has a fax machine? Would love to send him a fax that says:

"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s."

- Sent over the internet, paid for by Bitcoin, to your fax machine.
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Who does still use a fax???

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At least the Japanese government. Based on Permanent Record, the book of Snowden, I would guess the CIA too. He mentioned they were still using tapes.

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fax is the best way to send "encrypted" messages....

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Hahaha, seen that way, indeed

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Imagine if somebody will build a nostr based on faxes hahahaha

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @aljaz 9 Jan

IRS uses faxes A LOT

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Nice! I sent few faxes... but not sure if they arrived :D Is it your project or @sime 's?

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Meee :)

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13 sats \ 3 replies \ @Alby 13 Jan

Hey, come over to our Community Call one day! We've put your project on getalby.com/discover some time ago :)

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Will do. Btw, the logo is a screengrab of the footer.

You can download a proper logo here https://bitcoinfax.net/en/about

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Alby 14 Jan

That screengrab looks neat, though!

Pick your Thursday at https://cal.com/getalby/communitycall

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I'm on the next one.

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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @aljaz 9 Jan

how did i not know about this since now, i've sent more faxes that i've cared to admit in the last couple years :D

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@aljaz Awaiting your god awful faxes.

Udri, što brže.

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let's send faxes with bitcoin memes to all govs 😂😂😂😂

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@south_korea_ln Thanks for the shout-out and forwarding of sats :)

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Thanks for making this :)

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Let me tell you something... With 3CX Voip system and DIDWW you can have a virtual VoIP & fax server with virtual numbers (from DIDWW) and booom you have a "nostr relay" based on fax and secure E2E encryption.

You can send notes and memes over fax. 3CX also can fw those faxes attached to an email, run by a simple local email server (can be the same machine).

I've built this system several times in the past... works super nice. NOBODY can intercept or read those messages over fax.

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Fax is the killer app for btc.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 9 Jan

Pretty cool!

It reminds me of Paul Krugman who said something like the internet will turn out to be nothing more than the fax machine.

But yeah, who uses fax nowadays?

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Paul Krugman is the official Bitcoin Fax influencer.

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