On 05/06/2022 10:00, [email protected] wrote:
When Satoshi Nakamoto put it on this list,
Err, no, not here. He announced bitcoin on the cryptography list, not
the cypherpunks list. As I remember, he never posted here.
Your goal here
is to fool people with this stupid article and make them donate.
I saw it as a jest, but YMMV.
The people here aren't stupid,
though some are borderline insane, and some have gone well beyond that...
I think most of the people on this list are currently against bitcoin.
Four big problems: transaction-wise it doesn't scale well enough to be a
useable currency, just an almost-Ponzi-style investment; it wastefully
turns a whole lot of energy and other resources into nothing useful; it
isn't properly fungible; and it isn't reliably anonymous.
Has more problems too, eg there is no mechanism to refund fraud or
error, and it is hard to do security-by-obscurity as the blockchain is
necessarily public.
Bitcoin is no longer the agenda here.
Still on the agenda, but perhaps no longer seen as a thing to be admired?
Not that I have ever admired much more than the "he wrote code" and the
"he wrote extremely good code" of it. It's just he might have done so to
a better purpose.
Plus maybe a little cleverness, but not as much as you might think: eg
he did not invent blockchain or digital currencies or digital wallets.
Though I do wish I had bought some bitcoins early on ...
Peter Fairbrother
