Re: Greetings from Japan
[{"sender": "Jeremy Rubin", "recipients": ["jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>"], "timestamp": "Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:18 AM", "subject": "Re: Greetings from Japan", "body": "Hey Jeffrey, \nThought I'd check in and see what's up on your end. \n- I've been watching closely Trump's appointees and there, he might be putting Balaji (a big \nbitcoiner) as FDA head, and Allison seems to be somewhat in favor of something like Bitcoin. \nAnd of course, Thiel has said that Bitcoin is what Paypal should have been... Curious to hear \nwhere your head is at on this matter. \n- Last week, I presented my research at Stanford's BPASE, it was well received. The most \ninteresting thing I came up with for that is an inverse-input contract; i.e., funds that are \"locked\" to \nbe spent only in the case where there are other funds that are not used in a specific way. An \nexample of something that could be built with this: a matching donation contract, where you \nagree to donate your money to charity if someone else donates to charity, and you would not be \nable to release your funds from that agreement until they use their funds not for charity. \n- I'm in Japan this week, teaching a class to 100 Japanese Engineers to get the up to speed on \nbitcoin (with DG). It's very interesting to see the trepidation first hand that they have with respect \nto the technology, despite their debit-based society being more geared for it in any case (DG felt \nthat even putting Bitcoin in the course name would scare away students). One of my friends (a \nhedge fund manager) told me that female japanese engineers are very good, and drastically \nunder-valued. I made sure to get a few invited to the class, we'll see if he's right. On the whole, it \nwill be interesting to see the caliber of engineer Japan has to offer on this front. \nBest, \nJeremy"}, {"sender": "jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>", "recipients": ["Jeremy Rubin"], "timestamp": "Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 7:50 PM", "subject": "Re: Greetings from Japan", "body": "how long will you be there?"}, {"sender": "Jeremy Rubin", "recipients": ["jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>"], "timestamp": "Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 7:56 PM", "subject": "Re: Greetings from Japan", "body": "Feb 12th."}, {"sender": "Jeremy Rubin", "recipients": ["jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>"], "timestamp": "Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:18 PM", "subject": "Re: Greetings from Japan", "body": "Are you around here?"}, {"sender": "jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>", "recipients": ["Jeremy Rubin"], "timestamp": "Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 8:00 PM", "subject": "Re: Greetings from Japan", "body": "where in tokyo are you lecturing? no im in new york"}, {"sender": "Jeremy Rubin", "recipients": ["jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>"], "timestamp": "2/4/2017 1:53:41 PM", "subject": "Re: Greetings from Japan", "body": "At digital garage"}]