Quote from: danielronin on March 16, 2013, 11:40:30 PM

Quote from: ProfMac on March 16, 2013, 06:16:48 PM

Quote from: ms205 on March 16, 2013, 03:59:39 PM

I man form far Russian region Ural. Mining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies about two years, now my small mining farm has 4 GH.
My main work is gas distribution service, engineering of computers and telemetry. Hobby also about computers and electronics - I collect old calculation machines and early PC from junkstores and try to revive it, sometimes successfully.
I member of FIDONet since 1996 - old computer professionals may remember that "noncommercial worldwide network". My node 2:5080/205 still alive and not so long was the celebration of our network's 2:5080 21-st anniversary.

I am paradoxically pleased to hear that a FidoNet node is still active.

If I may ask, why paradoxically?

Just seems like one of those occasions where the choice of wording might belie an interesting backstory (but if you never ask you'll never know, amirite?).

FidoNet was the cutting edge, in a time when ARPAnet was not available to the public. I kept my ability to interact withh FidoNET for a very long time. I read code that Tom Jennings had his name on, and studied it. It mattered, a lot. However, it seems somehow anachronistic, out of place with something such as BitCoin. True, both FidoNET and Bitcoin have a moment of being cutting edge, it is unexpected that those moments would overlap; yet it is not at all surprising that people involved in one would be involved with the other.

This might make more, or less, sense if I have more, or less red wine at the moment.