Bit gold would greatly benefit from a demo, an experimental market (with e.g. a trusted third party substituted for the complex security that would be needed for a real system). Anybody want to help me code one up?
[Comment by Nick Szabo on his blog “Unenumerated,” April 2008. This request went unanswered publicly. Six months later, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper — a system that solved many of bit gold’s unsolved problems, including the need for a trusted third party. Szabo’s original bit gold blog post was dated December 2005, but the blog’s timestamps were later found to have been modified, complicating the precise chronology.]