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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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Joined August 2012

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    John Backus‏ @backus Jul 1

    Cybercoin fans - we figured out the most ridiculous name for digital money in 1998: Beenz. Let’s bring back Beenzpic.twitter.com/MABKtPeBVm

    1:19 PM - 1 Jul 2018
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    • CommuniSea Tobie Eisenhauer Neeraj Thakur Panashe Mahachi Izaan "O(n!)" Khan 🔰🌐⛩ Sebastian R. Howard B͖̗͖̰͘è̡̧̫͇a̪̫̤̹̦͘̕n̨̩̼̺͔̤̹̕͠ grahammcbain Chase 🦓
    17 replies 18 retweets 101 likes
      1. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 2

        Cool stuff free stuff stuff for free from beenz dot com that's where you gotta be ... Someone paid for this songpic.twitter.com/GOT9J03Ulb

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      2. Andy Waite‏ @andyw8 Jul 1
        Replying to @backus

        I actually remember this, I earned hundreds dollars of merch through it by opening accounts with multiple email addresses and taking up various offers.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 1
        Replying to @andyw8

        Wow! I’d love to hear more stuff like this. Trying to learn more on the centralization aspects of these specifically.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Andy Waite‏ @andyw8 Jul 1
        Replying to @backus

        I also remember https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com 

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 1
        Replying to @andyw8

        Yeah I've been reading up on this stuff and have read through the wikipedia pages. Beenz, Flooz, DigiCash, e-gold, and WebMoney seem like the relevant commercial projects.

        0 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
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      2. Krishaan Khubchand‏ @krishkhubchand Jul 1
        Replying to @backus

        Where/How are you finding all this wacky internet history stuff from man?!

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 1
        Replying to @krishkhubchand

        lmao

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Hunter Trujillo‏ @cryptoquick Jul 1
        Replying to @backus @krishkhubchand

        I guess you could say, he's lived it the dot-com era of hubris and extravagance like the blockchain insanity of the present or the first tech boom of the distant past

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 1
        Replying to @cryptoquick @krishkhubchand

        I was 5 when Beenz was launched. I just google a lot of things

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Hunter Trujillo‏ @cryptoquick Jul 1
        Replying to @backus @krishkhubchand

        oh wrong john backus

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Good Bean Jokes‏ @goodbeanjokes Jul 1
        Replying to @backus

        I like this John

        2 replies 0 retweets 28 likes
      3. John Backus‏ @backus Jul 2
        Replying to @goodbeanjokes

        Thank you, impressively popular bean account

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. Udi Wertheimer  🔨 [#reckless]‏ @udiWertheimer Jul 1
        Replying to @backus @zooko

        OKpic.twitter.com/grS0zJWPex

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Udi Wertheimer  🔨 [#reckless]‏ @udiWertheimer Jul 1
        Replying to @udiWertheimer @backus @zooko

        Also, stop trying to make cybercoin happen

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      4. ( 🎃 *) saleem‏ @spudowiar Jul 2
        Replying to @udiWertheimer @zooko @backus

        i'm voting "ZOOK-NO" on cybercoin

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. zooko‏ @zooko Jul 1
        Replying to @backus

        WHO OWNS THE IP?

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Izaan "O(n!)" Khan  🔰 🌐 ⛩‏ @Quantequivocal Jul 3
        Replying to @zooko @backus

        Any patents they would've had back then should be expired by now.. I can almost taste the beenz relaunch

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1.  🤖 Sonya Mann  🎀‏Verified account @sonyaellenmann Jul 1
        Replying to @backus @sorter_76

        cc @goodbeanjokes

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      1. Justin Poirier‏ @tokenizedcap Jul 1
        Replying to @backus

        Typical beenz maximalist shilling

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