diff --git a/docs/emails/p2p-research/3.md b/docs/emails/p2p-research/3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6a4bb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/emails/p2p-research/3.md @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +--- +layout: default +title: 'Re: [p2p-research] Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P' +date: 2009-02-13 03:32:01 CET +grand_parent: Emails +parent: '[p2p-research]' +nav_order: 3 +--- + +# Re: [p2p-research] Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P + +The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world. +{: .fs-6 .fw-300 } + +--- + +``` +Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2009 03:32:01 +0100 +From: Satoshi Nakamoto +To: p2presearch@listcultures.org +Subject: Re: [p2p-research] Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P + +Martien van Steenbergen wrote: + > Would love to also see support for not having to supply and + > managing money. Would make it easier and cheaper to maintain + > and results in have sufficient money, always and everywhere. + > No scarcity, no abundance, exactly the right amount all times, + > self-organizing. + +That's do-able. It can be programmed to follow any set of rules. + +I see Bitcoin as a foundation and first step if you want to implement = + +programmable P2P social currencies like Marc's ideas and others = + +discussed here. First you need normal, basic P2P currency working. = + +Once that is established and proven out, dynamic smart money is an easy = + +next step. + +I love the idea of virtual, non-geographic communities experimenting = + +with new economic paradigms. + +> Reminds me of: +> = + +> * AardRock =BB Wizard Rabbit Treasurer +> ; and +> * AardRock =BB Pekunio + +Indeed, it is much like Pekunio in the concept of spraying redundant = + +copies of every transaction to a number of peers on the network, but the = + +implementation is not a reputation network like Wizard Rabbit Treasurer. = + + In fact, Bitcoin does not use reputation at all. It sees the network = + +as just a big crowd and doesn't much care who it talks to or who tells = + +it something, as long as at least one of them relays the information = + +being broadcast around the network. It doesn't care because there's no = + +way to lie to it. Either you tell it crypto proof of something, or it = + +ignores you. + +> Are you familiar with Ripple? + +As trust systems go, Ripple is unique in spreading trust around rather = + +than concentrating it. + +> Is bitcoin also available as a protocol spec (facilitating differen = + +> language bindings and implementations; unite on specs, compete on = + +> implementation). + +It would be best to refer to the C++ source code. I plan to implement = + +interfaces for using the software to send and receive transactions from = + +any language, so server side code can easily use it for web based = + +e-commerce sites. + +Satoshi + +_______________________________________________ +p2presearch mailing list +p2presearch@listcultures.org +http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org +```