From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] btcd: A Full Alternative Bitcoin Implementation, Written In Go
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 21:22:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2808516.9lCbjbbBRM@coil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75e6cf69c4edf816c570e49d3b1d518c@coraid.com>
On Thursday 09 of May 2013 15:04:32 erik quanstrom wrote:
> On Thu May 9 15:00:26 EDT 2013, dexen.devries@gmail.com wrote:
> > do you /really/ need Yet Another Networked Filesystem in Plan9? ;-)
>
> yes, but what does that have to do with bitcoin?
a silly joke was silly...
the way i see it -- bitcoin is a distributed, append-only, content-addressable
filesystem with eventual consistency. ostensibly designed for transferring
coins, but can just as well house arbitrary binary data , be it a portrait and
a tribute to departed people [1] or alternative DNS [2].
[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33618.0
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin#Namecoin_DNS
--
dexen deVries
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-09 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-09 18:47 Antonio Barrones
2013-05-09 18:59 ` dexen deVries
2013-05-09 19:04 ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-09 19:22 ` dexen deVries [this message]
2013-05-14 12:44 Antonio Barrones
2013-05-14 14:04 ` erik quanstrom
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