Strangely, my mail was truncated. I blame gmail which may have sent it truncated. Here's the end of it:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zo...@zooko.com> wrote: > This has a lot in common with the "tipping" feature that we advertised > as a future feature of Mojo Nation (e.g. it features prominently in > the write-up of Mojo Nation in The Economist). (Inside Evil Geniuses > For A Better Tomorrow we called that feature the "Pay Lars" button, in > honor of a certain musician who had publicly criticized Napster for > depriving him of well-earned income.) >From a historical perspective Flattr is a fascinating example of the evolution of ideas. The founders of The Pirate Bay are probably intimately familiar with BitTorrent, but as far as I know, they are unfamiliar with anonymous Chaumian digital cash. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the idea for Flattr from their experience with BitTorrent and basically observing that there was a "hole" in BitTorrent where micropayments could go. :-) Does anyone know the inside story on how they got the idea for Flattr? Regards, Zooko [1] http://szabo.best.vwh.net/micropayments.html _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
