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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
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla that if they had an orphan it would show its own hash and root, not the correct block's.
mircea_popescu: (i don't keep much of an eye on blockchain.info since there exists blockr)
mircea_popescu: well then i suppose you'd better blog about it, or post or somthing.
mircea_popescu: this would necessarily result in them listing a different set of txns from the actual set as found on the actual chain
mircea_popescu: if a service like blockchain.info goes down (ie, stops listening to the chain) it may end up with the impression a meanwhile discarded block is still valid
mircea_popescu: the validity of a block is not established until later. which is what orphans and chain reorgs are.
mircea_popescu: you mean the hash of the block as reported then matches the hash as reported now ?!
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: big one and number two.. anyone taking bets one of those was goat? << yes. how much you wanna bet ?
mircea_popescu: in 2000ish ? yea, it think it'd have been all over slashdot. "highschooler gets ccie!!1"
mircea_popescu: kinda why i'm stuck with an ever increasing intel dept
mircea_popescu: reeses_ well then read the discussion with mr pineaple above too.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic but on the topic of making a name for oneself, know who tried that ? a certain dr. gleason. he tried to make a name for himself as not being a contemptible piece of shit. he was convicted, eventually, and then killed himself.
mircea_popescu: hence "<mircea_popescu> and i don't think reeses_ is even paying attention anymore."
mircea_popescu: chetty presumably the free market still exists in the us, both financially and with regard to ideas, so such an academic would "make a name for himself"
mircea_popescu: yeah, i think the most we can arrive to is stating the respective positions.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic yes, but not the 14% aspirational crowd that "makes" names
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic nobody is going t omake a name for themselves in the current us showing that not beating kids is a wrong thing.