• Vernor Vinge’s 1981 short story “True Names” inspired Hal Finney to implement David Chaum’s mix-net remailers, and the group revisited the open problem of proving that multiple advertised storage nodes are not a single Sybil attacker.

• A concrete protocol was sketched for a decentralized storage market: nodes publish machine-readable offers (“store 1 GB for 123.4 µBTC, respond to random challenges”) and users pay only after cryptographic proofs of possession, eliminating up-front trust.

• Participants debated Bitcoin’s fixed 21 M supply, arguing that predictable issuance prevents fiat-style malinvestment and that “snapshot” altcoins do not dilute Bitcoin’s scarcity because value rests on consensus and network effects, not the ledger alone.

• Molten-oxide electrolysis (Nature 2013, doi:10.1038/nature12134) was highlighted as the lowest-energy path to lunar silicon, enabling self-replicating robots to bootstrap semiconductor-free power electronics before spreading to Mercury or asteroids.

• A minimal autotroph benchmark was set at ~6 Mbp (Spirulina), sufficient for closed-loop growth on CO₂, light, and trace minerals, supporting visions of space-based biomanufacturing and panspermia scenarios seeded by hardy bacterial spores.

• DNA-origami “counting tiles” and hierarchical self-assembly (PNAS 2009 seed-growth algorithm) were revisited as routes to atomically precise edges for nanoscale construction, with links to fractal antenna micrographs and Moravec/Forward “bush robots.”

• Open-access mirrors (LibGen, diyhpl.us), secure-delegation-of-auditing.pdf (eprint.iacr.org/2011/304), and CMU’s gossip-based trust aggregation paper were circulated as background reading for building censorship-resistant, reputation-free storage networks.

• The shutdown of the Full Disclosure security mailing list and the PubPeer lawsuit against anonymous commenters were cited as examples of how legal pressure and centralized control threaten open vulnerability disclosure and scientific critique.