Re: BitCoin

Posted by Steve Smith on Nov 29, 2013; 8:42pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/BitCoin-tp7584341p7584412.html

Someone in our FRIAM community (who can claim credit if they wish) once suggested to me, based on HashCash and GeoHash and GeoCache that there should emerge something called "HashCache".

This solves the problem of the small-time recreational drug user who is past their prime and can no longer just crash into any local Dive Bar, Starbucks, or Auto Parts store and score some pot "on the fly" while traveling.  TSA has made it harder to carry your stash with you, the USPS has made it harder to "mail some ahead",  and despite the medical marijuana laws, it is probably not equally easy to "score" just anywhere you go at the drop of a few big bills.

The idea in question involved a method for being able to anonymously solicit and exchange "cash" for "hash" using HashCash methods along with Geo/Hash/Cacheing.  

I suppose it could also work to have at your disposal your favorite military-grade weapons/ammunition anywhere you travel without needing to maintain a personal network of unsavory types.

I'm not saying it is a good idea, but it does seem somewhat inevitable in the progression of the phonetic riff (Hash, Cash, and Cache) as well as in the constant arms race between what we consider savory and what we do not.

- Anonymous ;^)

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