Not sure I agree here. Salon is the Liberal-Democrat rag (a kind of online NYTimes) and their rejection of the anger online as a stance of anti-libertarianism throws out the other issue here; the man that journalist scooped is probably not the inventor of Bitcoin. Felix Salmon has a *much* better analysis here:
Satoshi Paradox - http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_satoshi_paradox.php?page=all The libertarians behind BTC and their fetishization of a world without regulators has well and truly f**cked them here, but the tools of information sharing and especially a critical analytic stances against papers like Newsweek (which clearly pushed this story as a way to get back into the digerati's mind) still remain vital. Frank ---- The apparent demasking of the currency's mysterious creator is the last nail in the coffin by Andrew Leonard, Salon.com, 07.03.2014 http://tinyurl.com/kquwj8l # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
