at my corpo-rave tonight and Stefan Brand, who owns pretty well every key patent in digi-cash and micropayments, comes up to me (being introduced by my friend Tracey who puts together the Freedom site), and I’m stuttering, “uh, yeah, hey… I’ve been following crypto shit for ages and wow – you did all the work on stuff we still haven’t figured out how to get working. cool – nice to meet you!” I’ve had dinner and/or drinks with stars of stage, screen, and recording studio… But writer-biz-producer-web-boy was awed by a total geek star.