On Sat, 16 Aug 2025, bzs@theworld.com wrote:
John is going to pop up instantly whenever I, or perhaps others, I can only follow me, suggest that we need a fresh approach to spam and related. He has done this for literally 20+ years going back to the days of the IRTF/ASRG ca 2003.
Well, sure, you keep saying the same things, I keep reminding people that they're known not to work.
The paper, or a similar paper, he flogs he also has offered as "mathematical proof" that bitcoin cannot possibly work 15 or so years ago.
Um, you have me confused with someone else. I'm the guy who blogged about buying coffee with bitcoin a decade ago. It was more hassle than it was worth, but it did work. At current BTC prices that coffee probably cost $50,000 (Canadian, I did it in Vancouver.) R's, John PS:
I've watched them for nearly 30 years and believe their business model is fragile and brittle but isn't going to be subdued by layering on yet another blind, general-purpose, verification layer.
Hey, we agree there. "Authenticate everyone" is one of those ideas that's well known not to work.