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By 2008 Microsoft's free compiler wanted a Passport sign-in. Satoshi built Bitcoin on a 1998 Visual C++ 6.0 and free MinGW. The registration era, pseudonymous sign-ups, and a design with no account.
John Gilmore objects that proof-of-work money would burn every idle cycle, consuming electricity and generating carbon dioxide all over the Internet, and asks why bank money can't simply be converted.
John Gilmore announces that Sandy Sandfort will moderate the Cypherpunks list for a one-month test, with unedited and flames lists for those who want everything.
John Gilmore says he will no longer host the Cypherpunks list: unless the community builds a new home by February 20, the list will cease to exist.
How a 1992 Oakland meeting became the Cypherpunks mailing list: the name, the remailers, the Clipper fight, the 1997 split, and the Hashcash and b-money posts the Bitcoin whitepaper later cited.