Shelling Out -- The Origins of Money

Re:Shelling Out -- The Origins of Money by nazgulnarsil on Sunday May 29, 2011 @07:58PM (#2597961)

fun fact: Szabo is partially responsible for the idea behind bitcoin. http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html

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Re:Shelling Out -- The Origins of Money by hugh3 on Sunday May 29, 2011 @10:54PM (#2598308)

The first thing I did upon opening this article was to search for "bitcoin" to find out whether it was going to be a shaggy dog story that ends by exhorting me to buy bitcoin. Turns out it wasn't, so I skimmed it. Quite interesting.

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Re:Shelling Out -- The Origins of Money by nazgulnarsil on Sunday May 29, 2011 @11:54PM (#2598435)

he blogs about all sorts of stuff but his website is academic papers.

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