I find it interesting that you mention a group of 3, it's curious that Adam Back's handle is adam3us and if we break that apart it's adam 3 (three) us (objective case of we to refer to himself and other people).
it's on my to-read list. I love that phrase, "the future of money"
The subtitle of my weekly bitcoin brunch meetup is "Bitcoin, the future of money, and whatever else people want to talk about."