However also see Wei Dai's B-money, and Nick Szabos bit-gold, and 
also some old cypherpunks discussions involving those people and Ian Grigg
(systemics SOX server), and others, and some anonymous participants too -
there were a group of people trying hard to find a way to make distributed
ecash work.  Maybe Satoshi was one of them (anonymous or not).  One of the
anonymous participants certainly seemed more positive on the feasibility of
the proto-bitcoin plan laid out there in 1999.  Or if we nearly worked it   
out, maybe someone new figured out the same thing.  We didnt give up on the 
cocnept