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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Thu,  9 May 2013 21:22:55 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] btcd: A Full Alternative Bitcoin Implementation,
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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? ;-)=

>=20
> 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-addr=
essable=20
filesystem with eventual consistency. ostensibly designed for transferr=
ing=20
coins, but can just as well house arbitrary binary data , be it a portr=
ait and=20
a tribute to departed people [1] or alternative DNS [2].


[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3D33618.0
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin#Namecoin_DNS


--=20
dexen deVries

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