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In Cryptonomicon all the banks issue paper IOUs for Silver they claim to have. In order to keep each other honest that they really have the silver, just before closing time time Friday the banks would all run and demand exchange on every piece of their competitors paper they could get their hands on.

I'm looking at you ecash mints.
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YODL 5mo ago

I started it for one day long ago but fell off for no good reason. Worth reading I gather

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Bill Cypher 5mo ago

Indeed.

The author was following the work of the early cypherpunks closely enough that some have speculated he is Satoshi based on the timing and ideas of some of his writings.

Definitely dangerous ideas in his books.

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YODL 5mo ago

I read a few of his books. For some reason, this one and reamde I didn't finish. Got a fair bit of the way into reamde too. Was decent but guess I was busy with irl junk at the time. Cryptonomicon and Neuromancer are the two sci-fi at top of current to-read list

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Bill Cypher 5mo ago

Snow Crash was the first of his I read. It was my first exposure to the idea of memes and that they could be used as exploits against the human brain like a virus. Totally destroyed my worldview.