asciilifeform: quite convinced of it." VJ replied, "good for that - when do they think you've sold?" and Ulbricht responded, "about a month ago." 3 Based on my training and experience, and my familiarity with this investigation, I believe that during this conversation, Ulbricht disclosed that he had told two people of his connection to Silk Road, but had lied to them by claiming that he had sold Silk Road to someone else.'
asciilifeform: e.g., 'During the same chat, VJ asked Ulbricht, in sum and substance, whether Ulbricht had disclosed to anyone in real life that he was involved in Silk Road: "IRL - is there anyone with a clue at all? Girlfriend, boyfriend, bunny you talk to, online buddy's who you've know for years? Gramma, priest, rabbi, stripper?" Ulbricht responded, "unfortunately yes. They are two, but they think I sold the site and got out. and they are
asciilifeform: which is to say, how it is difficult to escape the feeling that all of these schmucks are on trial for ~being stupid~
asciilifeform reading the unsealed 'variety jones' indictment, and thinking about precisely this
asciilifeform: 'bitcoins and put them into a seychelles trust'
asciilifeform: 'Craig Wright had mined a lot of Bitcoins. Craig then took the Bitcoins and put them into a Seychelles Trust. A bit of it was also put into Singapore. This was run out of an entity from the UK. Craig had gotten approximately 1.1 million Bitcoins.' << on what planet does this make the most elementary kind of sense ?!!
asciilifeform: what in satan's green earth is the point of all of this claptrap.
asciilifeform: the one thing which i utterly fail to grasp is,
asciilifeform: 'Craig Wright is not modest. On the website of Panopticrypt, one of his many companies, Wright describes himself as “certifiably the world’s foremost IT security expert.”'
asciilifeform: nd because of its cheap geothermal power.' << aaaaand dingdingding we're done
asciilifeform: 'The first of those supercomputers he named Sukuriputo Okane—Japanese for “script money.” Another, named Co1n, holds the title of the world’s most powerful privately owned supercomputer. As Wright told the Bitcoin Investor’s conference, he’s applying that second machine towards the mysterious task of “modeling Bitcoin’s scalability,” and meanwhile building an even more powerful supercomputing cluster in Icela
asciilifeform: move the motherfucking coinz or shuddup.
asciilifeform: ming “cryptocurrency paper” and “triple entry accounting” were added sometime after 2013. Even the post noting bitcoin’s beta launch is questionable. While it was ostensibly posted in January 2009, it later seems to have been deleted and then undeleted—or possibly even written for the first time—sometime between October 2013 and June of 2014.'
asciilifeform: 'All of it could be an elaborate hoax—perhaps orchestrated by Wright himself. The unverified leaked documents could be faked in whole or in part. And most inexplicably of all, comparisons of different archived versions of the three smoking gun posts from Wright’s blog show that he did edit all three—to insert evidence of his bitcoin history. The PGP key associated with Nakamoto’s email address and references to an upco
asciilifeform: (almost edging on believable, if any of the 'leaked paperz' were actually available, and if there were any reason to believe in their authenticity)
asciilifeform: the 'purpose' thing is sprayed on by foolish people, yes.
asciilifeform: he is 'trying' in the same way bird 'tries' when sings☟︎
asciilifeform: this'd be possibly the one place where everybody eventually gets what he wants.
asciilifeform: it is entirely possible for an old (to a point) man to shoot better, take more physical punishment, run faster, even - than disposable cannon fodder. to a point. but the one thing that doesn't grow back is... WANTING TO. i.e. thinking that, in greenspun's words, 'the group is worth impressing' via suicidal stupidity
asciilifeform: 'In 2014, Mr. Bridges was selected by the USSS HQ to serve as the first full-time agent to the National Security Agency. In this capacity, he represented the USSS in connection to investigations that had an international nexus or cyber security concerns.'
asciilifeform: if it admits tx that 0.5.3 will not admit, it isn't bitcoin.
asciilifeform: if it doesn't agree with the established blockchain to the last bit, it isn't bitcoin.
asciilifeform: adlai: 0.5.3 was chosen as starting point on account of being the oldest still-functioning artifact having no obvious catastrophic (exploitable) bugs.
asciilifeform: and hence does not actually describe bitcoin.
asciilifeform: adlai: because it does not function on the network existing today.
asciilifeform: incidentally, (1) only makes sense if not only the code is printed but with first-class concordance (EVERY token on EVERY page is margin-noted and said notes point to index of ALL occurrences)
asciilifeform: 2) to form a permanent, distributed, and unredactable record of classical bitcoinatron.
asciilifeform: 1) because i don't especially like reading off a screen
asciilifeform: adlai: since i'm not certain whether i ever explained it, there were two particular reasons i wanted it printed:
