Not significant by itself, but may provide further leads, his public email address from May 2000
[email protected].
That's Lenstra's email, are you saying that was the email of the guy in 2002 that put out the idea that some think is Satoshi?
Or are you saying yeah this is Lenstra's known email from 2000 era?
It might be useful in comparing known Lenstra writings with the vocabulary and sentence structure used by "x".
I have this idea of a future with virtual peer to peer banking. A kind of
decentralized and secured system. Gone would be the times that governments
and banks can track and interfere with our money transfers. Or even
interfere with the total amount of money on earth. My envisioned sytem would
have a fixed total amount of money. But each money unit (say virtual coin)
is divisable indefinitely. So a kind of deflation would replace inflation.
The total value of the money in the world would be a fixed number. It poses
no problem for liquidity, because the currency can be divided anytime.
However maybe people will not spend their money much, because it's value
will increase often. Other problems raise in the areas of security,
malicious use, and how to come towards such system from current systems?
These are just ideas, I like to hear comments or about net resources on this
subject.
Maybe the community can bypass the old powers (countries and governments).
It wouldn't be a revolution, but rather evolution. Slowly a new p2p system
might take over. The current monetary systems were mainly backed with gold
(not anymore now, to my knowledge). Maybe the underlying values of a virtual
peer to peer system could be other scarce resources, relatively easy to
exchange via internet. Examples are: computer processing power, bandwith and
data storage. These resources would make a limited peer to peer money
exchange system possible. Limited to the total real life value of all these
resources. However from that point other resources could back up the virtual
currency...
It is a step in the right direction indeed. Now replace the system operator
by a secure peer to peer system. And replace the underlying currency with
something else, or slowly uncouple the underlying currency. Then it would be
the system of my ideas...
For example, two posts end with elipses, two uses of the phrase "a kind of", three uses of the word "idea", in a brief sample of writing.
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