--On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 8:06 PM -0500 Ted Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Such as? > 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 >
