[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

If it isn't Nick Szabo, it is somebody who has spent years ensuring all clues point to nobody but Nick Szabo, up to and including placing a Satoshi nakamoto statue in a rural Polish town where Nick Szabo's grandfather was born.

Let's just look at this logically: if you had written the 30+ papers building the ideas that eventually became bitcoin, actually were building bitcoin and months away from releasing, and then had all your work stolen without credit nor citation, you wouldn't be the world's biggest supporter of bitcoin. You would be mad that somebody stole your work and then spent years framing you for its creation.

The first usage of the word bitcoin was even on Nick Szabo's own blog, under a comment by the user Eddie. This leads to two outcomes: Eddie is Satoshi, or Nick's work wasn't stolen, bit gold is bitcoin and Nick is Satoshi.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Honesrly: tokenboomer likely is all those accounts as well.

You will notice that anytime you respond to boomer with disagreement, multiple accounts will begin flooding you, and they all brave in and out of the conversations as if they are the ones who said things said by others.

You wouldn't expect a paid professional to be so sloppy, but on the other hand, if he was good at his job, he wouldn't be working for Hamas.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

I like Cory Doctorow.

However, I bought the novel Rabbits solely because Doctorow had a front cover blurb praising the novel.

It was downright a bad novel. Doctorow owes me $16.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

It's truly not even a mystery.

There is only one person on earth who had both the skills and experience to create bitcoin, and actually was working to create bitcoin in the months leading up to the white paper.

That person is Nick Szabo.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 151 points 2 months ago

I assume they are on Lemmy.

Good job, guys.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 51 points 3 months ago

When you threw Mankind off the top of the cage at Hell in the Cell?

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 41 points 4 months ago

This explains some things about Joe Rogan.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 37 points 5 months ago

I mean... If your goal is to end a genocide and you help get a guy who said "finish the job" elected, yeah, it is your fault.

Let us not pretend otherwise.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 43 points 5 months ago

Good.

Let's go further. Any company using an algorithm to profit off people's engagement has to publish the code.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 43 points 5 months ago

No, Coldplay was incredibly well liked for close to a decade. The backlash against them really didn't develop until 2007/2008 when it was discovered they straight up stole a song.

Viva LA Vida was already sort of their abandonment of adult contemporary for a top 40 sound, and of course, it was released when I heart (then clear channel) was shutting down all the adult contemporary stations, so the pivot was going to happen regardless of whether they got caught or not, but it is interesting to note that their top hits since that happened have largely been written by others.

Nowadays, maroon 5 and coldplay are essentially the same band, its just a matter of who pays Max Martin more for the better song at album roll out time.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 56 points 6 months ago

We should give a famous painter a show where we don't allow them to paint, just ask for their unqualified opinions on literally anything.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 38 points 6 months ago

Oh man, you got in the van with them and were taken to a second location?

You are lucky you actually got speakers

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