An Efficient and Practical Distributed Currency
Ben Laurie doesn't like Bitcoin. Here he proposes an efficient mechanism for a digital currency with a distributed root. Interesting idea. The link discusses the big problem he sees with Bitcoin and links to his proposal PDF (74K).
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[Ben Laurie]
[Ben Laurie] doesn't like Bitcoin.
|http://www.links.org/?p=1183 (also on front page of links.org)
links to his [proposal PDF] (74K).
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http://www.links.org/files/distributed-currency.pdf
and at his site (?p=1183), all the local links are the same pattern w/ different p=#'s.
Curious, and curiouser, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Laurie
Ben Laurie is a software engineer, protocol designer and cryptographer.
He is a founding director of The Apache Software Foundation, a core team
member of OpenSSL, a member of the Shmoo Group, a director of the Open Rights
Group, Director of Security at The Bunker Secure Hosting, Trustee and Founder-
member of FreeBMD, a committer at FreeBSD and Advisory Board member of
WikiLeaks.org.. ... ...
Interesting folk you find, Bill.
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