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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Discussion => Topic started by: Vladimir on July 17, 2011, 01:43:35 PM



Title: Ben Laurie's paper on "efficient way" to do money, as opposed to bitcoin
Post by: Vladimir on July 17, 2011, 01:43:35 PM
http://www.links.org/files/decentralised-currencies.pdf


Title: Re: Ben Laurie's paper on "efficient way" to do money, as opposed to bitcoin
Post by: matonis on July 17, 2011, 01:50:11 PM
Ben Laurie and paper already discussed over here:
https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25760.0


Title: Re: Ben Laurie's paper on "efficient way" to do money, as opposed to bitcoin
Post by: myhoho on July 17, 2011, 02:16:58 PM
Anyway, he(Ben Laurie) doesn't have any sense...


Title: Re: Ben Laurie's paper on "efficient way" to do money, as opposed to bitcoin
Post by: kiba on July 17, 2011, 02:26:46 PM
Anyway, he(Ben Laurie) doesn't have any sense...

The discussion is beyond my head so....but I heard Ben Laurie doesn't like bitcoin because it isn't elegant and efficient at all, according to the Bitcoin is Worse is Better (http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-is-worse-is-better) article that was published on my site.


Title: Re: Ben Laurie's paper on "efficient way" to do money, as opposed to bitcoin
Post by: Stephen Gornick on July 17, 2011, 07:27:18 PM
Mr. Laurie's blog post on the publication and comments:
  - http://www.links.org/?p=1179

The flaws in his arguments were exposed in the comments.