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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.
mircea_popescu: "If you come out as the leader of Bitcoin, now you have to make appearances and presentations and comments to the press and that didn't really fit with Satoshi's personality,"
mircea_popescu: From that moment, Satoshi Nakamoto stopped responding to emails and dropped off the map.
mircea_popescu: Then he told Nakamoto he'd accepted an invitation to speak at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. "I hope that by talking directly to them and, more importantly, listening to their questions/concerns, they will think of Bitcoin the way I do - as a just-plain-better, more efficient, less-subject-to-political-whims money," he said. "Not as an all-powerful black-market tool that will be used by anarchists to ove
mircea_popescu: Andresen responded: "Yeah, I'm not happy with the 'wacky pirate money' tone, either."
mircea_popescu: at least gavin goes on the record saying that he doesn't need any money,
mircea_popescu: anyway, the responsible tard being Leah McGrath Goodman
mircea_popescu: lmao newsweek beat the bushes till they found one guy named satoshi nakamoto that was within driving distance
mircea_popescu: anyway, funny how goat got double paid, suckled something from pirate, suckled something from suckers buying debt...
mircea_popescu: moustakis tried to finesse it out of the testimony, and absent any sort of competent defese it will probably wash away just fine
mircea_popescu: anyway, the one - pretty much the only one - barb for the sec in the pirate story is that indeed the facts seem to support pirate's allegation that he actually paid out the newest investors first.
mircea_popescu: actually correct quote : “The BTC is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".
mircea_popescu: btc, tits. btc is the only thing that matters, the only thing that lasts. tara!
mircea_popescu: that's all it's there for. costs the rest of us a prett ypenny, too
mircea_popescu: i guess that's why the sec claiming the current price is a good thing
mircea_popescu: otherwise it'd be all "o fuck me, 160k for 80k btc ? i did that ? srsly ? "
mircea_popescu: like shavers, like taaki, like maxwell, like you know, the lengthy list of idiots that were "involved" early on
mircea_popescu: i fucking wonder, you know, what the thought process of the mentally impaired is.
mircea_popescu: some people buy in at a little over 2, some people sell out at a little under 2, life goes on.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: "realizing net proceeds of $164,758 from his net sales of 86,202 bitcoins" << epic.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo did it actually say "Michael Marquardt" or theymos or what ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla which is why i say let cary explain it, how the fuck would we know.
mircea_popescu: if you go "block 200344, here's the hash (from block 200344') and here's the txn, from block 200344" you got a problem