I copied to Ted Nelson, who replied with this, "Thanks for sending-- It absolutely makes no sense. All Bitcoin miners do the same thing in general, with the same result, a data structure anyone can check. Why the state should care about their particular method is baffling. Ted Nelson (who coined the phrase hypertext for the newbies) by the way, has an amazing lecture on bitcoin here:
Computers for Cynics #7, "How Bitcoin Actually Works.".
I tried, but Ted said this: Hi Lil-- Please send these people my apologies. I do not have time to read or comment on things people send me. I am frantic to finish my main work. (The Bitcoin lecture was an out-of-the-way challenge that I won't have time to do again.)
I own paper copies of Computer Lib and Thinking Machines. Please let him know that there are folks that felt more useful than their degrees thanks to his presentation of coding in Computer Lib.
I think he'd love to hear from both of you (eightbitsamurai) To "meet" him, watch a bit of his bitcoin video.