academic analysis of bitcoin including gentle introductory material

[David Nicol]

http://crypto.stanford.edu/~xb/fc12/bitcoin.pdf
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on the outside of the bottom of the barrel, that's how much of an outlier it is.

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 8 March 2012 16:55, David Nicol <david...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://crypto.stanford.edu/~xb/fc12/bitcoin.pdf

An awesome analysis. 

However I think with bit coin there's some left brain / right brain 'magic' going on that has allowed it to resonate with so many people.

I'm reminded of this article from a magician on how he made his tricks popular ...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Teller-Reveals-His-Secrets.html?c=y&story=fullstory