On Jan 18, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Mike Beggs wrote:
>> On Jan 18, 2012, at 9:35 PM, michael perelman wrote:
>>
>>> BitCoin
>>
>> Ok, what's the story of that shit?
>
> It is told pretty well here. It is a pretty funny story actually, like
> something out of a Charles Stross book:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/18/bitcoin-value-crash-cryptocurrency
My god. Some dude in the alt.currencies working group of OWS dismissed my critique of local money saying that the geeks have one - BitCoin. I wish I'd known this a few weeks ago.