On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 01:36 +0100, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote: > On Nov 27, 2013 1:25 AM, "Ted Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 11:07 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: > > > At 05:43 PM 11/25/2013, David Vorick wrote: > > > > Absolutely. It's utterly absurd to claim that Satoshi got moderately > > wealthy (not hyperrich yet by any means) by "doing nothing." There > are > > insights in Bitcoin enough to fuel dozens of PhDs worth of research, > in > > wider areas than > > Says more about PhD's than Satoshi. The money he'll earn with Bitcoin > has no direct relationship to his investment. It is unlikely that, > through coincidence, his reward is set nearly right. Regardless of > your idea of right. > > Lack of knowledge is the fail of all markets.
I'm not sure how you're evaluating his "investment," which was solving a number of previously-thought-unsolvable problems in applied cryptography in a way that became wildly popular, widely used, and enabled a large amount of very influential services. Contributing to the world in such a manner rarely results in such wealth, but I don't see why it shouldn't. -- Sent from Ubuntu
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