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"One major influence were the 'Extropians,' a loosely affiliated group of crackpot futurists … belief that humans were on the cusp of … advances that would make us immortal, in which case we would need stores of value that could outlive passing fads like banks & paper money."
says @delvesbroughton in wsj.com/articles/digit… reviewing book Digital Cash. I was there, & that's not true at all. While many Extropians wanted both immortality & digital cash, the desire for the latter had little to do with the former.
And the label "crackpot" is not one that a major publication like @WSJ should use unless it is willing to back it up with concrete support. I'd say that relative to most futurist speculation, Extropian speculation looks okay in retrospect.
