https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/09/16/ellison_spills_over_beenz/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/09/16/ellison_spills_over... It was an attempt to leverag

https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/09/16/ellison_spills_over_beenz/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/09/16/ellison_spills_over... It was an attempt to leverage a centralized Oracle database as a transaction engine, hence Ellison getting behind it in '99. Bears no relation to crypto currencies whatsoever