>When people talked of "virtual currency" over the years, often arguing >that it's too hard a problem, how many described bitcoin with its >cryptographic mining etc?
None, but it shouldn't be hard to look at the way bitcoin works and realize why it'd be phenomenally ill suited for e-postage, just for technical reasons. I told Satoshi so in 2009. R's, John PS: Sometimes a WKBI really is a WKBI.