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mircea_popescu: the theory that three's a charm is kind-of giving me goosebumps atm.
mircea_popescu: so today i woke up to the pirate sec deposition, and i had to interrupt my launch because some overqualified stripper went off the deep end in newsweek
mircea_popescu: maybe they, you know, independently audit their own chainz
mircea_popescu: because the us failed to execute him, the entire country is now full of losers who imagine that if they somehow pour drivel which happens to contain references to GM's CEO they somehow gain relevance.
mircea_popescu: "Too funny. Despite the incoherence of his blog post, at least MP has finally stepped up and conceded the incompetence of his former approach to options market making. For finally admitting that and quitting the business of options market making without being adequately prepared, he deserves a positive acknowledgement."
mircea_popescu: "hypothesis on why I think the real Sotoshi was found"
mircea_popescu: dexX7 this may be more or less the time one removes any large btc balances from blockchain
mircea_popescu: some kid just sits and googles forbes, business dorksider etc all day ?
mircea_popescu: so is this coindesk basically a hand aggregator of the retarded press ?
mircea_popescu: i gotta stop reading on this topic jesus god they're offensive.
mircea_popescu: SG: It has not been received well, many people are telling me to “leave Satoshi alone”. But when one starts having a huge impact on the world, one loses his right to anonymity.
mircea_popescu: TC: How has your digging gone over in the BTC community? It seems like an unpopular topic at best.
mircea_popescu: an attempt to make financial transactions easier to mine for interesting data patterns: we need to clear that up before we start relying heavily on Bitcoin in our lives.
mircea_popescu: SG: I think it’s very important to identify Satoshi at this point in Bitcoin’s history. The “agenda” behind Bitcoin, if there is any, cannot stay in the shadow if Bitcoin is to become a mainstream alternative currency, a challenge to the world’s monetary status quo. There has been speculation that Bitcoin may have been created by a government agency (the main employers of cryptographers of mathematicians) in
mircea_popescu: TC: Does it matter? What would it change if it did, in your opinion?
mircea_popescu: pLambert i was merely commenting on the people held up for the role by the media so far.
mircea_popescu: there's also Shinichi Mochizuki, Gavin's wife, Jed McCaleb (judging by kraken... god help us)
mircea_popescu: there are also two individuals legally named satoshi nakamoto, one presenting himself as satoshi, the other being presented by newsweek as satoshi
mircea_popescu: actually this is pretty funny : The New Yorker's satoshi is Michael Clear ; Fast Company's satoshi is (Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry). Business Insider's satoshi is Nick Szabo.
mircea_popescu: putin could get the physics nobel for his crimeea contgributions
mircea_popescu: like you know... i don't think you can find someone doing that in the vc circus if your life depended on it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, yes. whatever you call it, polish ?
mircea_popescu: wherever a guy who "was deeply influenced by silicon valley" and also "uses prefix notation" could be found.
mircea_popescu: i guess that one had the disadvantage that the entire nonsense needed plane tickets, and newsweek wouldn't spring
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually there's already a dude claiming he's it
mircea_popescu: or whatever, fighting economic unequality and promoting the virtues of an unspecified, bug ridden codebase and the halfwits that nursed it to this day
mircea_popescu: anyway, if fake satoshi comes up with some derpage about how we should all love each other, feed africa and stop oppressing faggots it'll be just perfect.
mircea_popescu: about fifty different ways to go about it, all taking five minutes.
mircea_popescu: or whatever, send 1 bitcent from the genesis block to 1newsweak98759843
mircea_popescu: roughly equivalent to some kid trying to resolve his upset at bitbet by "getting votes"
mircea_popescu: dexX7 yes. identity established not through the mechanism it is predicated upon, but through "the agreement" of "the people", specifically those who are too stupid to even understand what's being discussed.
mircea_popescu: "if you feel like your time is up... don't... do anything... call the... "
mircea_popescu: "if there's a robbery don't do anything, call the robbery people"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "if there's a fire, don't do anything, call the fire people"
mircea_popescu: but why ? if the cattle harakiri'd randomly wed have all these stale carcasses all over.
mircea_popescu: china i suppose is making some moves towards relevancy, but i know jack shit about china
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only places with actual government are white majority population.
mircea_popescu: comes to about 600mn to be unemployed overnight one of these nights.
mircea_popescu: about two in three white people are employed working for the government.
mircea_popescu: anyway, enough loling at fucktarded english major chicks, back to rift crafting
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah, it's where the UK prime minister trawls for special assistants to help him get the best child pron
mircea_popescu: yet he somehow magically doesn't understand why satoshi ain't talkin' to him no more.
mircea_popescu: "He was the kind of person who, if you made an honest mistake, he might call you an idiot and never speak to you again," Andresen says.
mircea_popescu: you gotta ? really ? how about the press and all that learns to irc instead. not like bitcoin is here to _adapt_ to anything now is it.
mircea_popescu: kinda shocking how stupid this character is, seriously.