waxwing on Nostr: For those of you who never saw it: This post from *1999* on the cypherpunks mailing ...
For those of you who never saw it:
This post from *1999* on the cypherpunks mailing list pretty much described bitcoin; it was, interestingly, in response to Adam Back saying that the most essential feauture of ecash was not blinding, but non-confiscatability/bearer (reflecting that, unlike many, Back knows what "cash" actually means!).
https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95280154629912&w=2Note that the post uses 2 spaces after the period :)
Published at
2026-02-18 14:59:16 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "86691b330f098a27f1d957f0ed04fdcee6b8400ba322dbd0351fc1378208089f",
"pubkey": "675b84fe75e216ab947c7438ee519ca7775376ddf05dadfba6278bd012e1d728",
"created_at": 1771426756,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [],
"content": "For those of you who never saw it:\n\nThis post from *1999* on the cypherpunks mailing list pretty much described bitcoin; it was, interestingly, in response to Adam Back saying that the most essential feauture of ecash was not blinding, but non-confiscatability/bearer (reflecting that, unlike many, Back knows what \"cash\" actually means!).\n\nhttps://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks\u0026m=95280154629912\u0026w=2\n\nNote that the post uses 2 spaces after the period :)",
"sig": "82119cabfa9d66f38df2653a014020fba5f9d39dbece02a81f4337de62c279eb4010665a91c15695a5843dfc3aa3ea149b1f5201269c30a051807acea8f3ed24"
}