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Not the parent, but, >What, precisely, did gwern do? Publicly accused someone of being Satoshi Nakamoto, which is quote serious, and predictably would have ne
by eudox 11y ago
Not the parent, but,
>What, precisely, did gwern do?
Publicly accused someone of being Satoshi Nakamoto, which is quote serious, and predictably would have negative consequences.
It's especially bad if you do it with unreliable evidence, because then it's just some poor unrelated person.
- comboy 11y agoWhether he is or not, he clearly seems to want to be associated with Satoshi. So this is not exactly the Dorian case. This guy practically asked for it at the conference.
- eudox 11y agoSo the guy, out of narcissism or whatever, made some imprudent edits to old blogposts. Taking advantage of that to publish an unsubstantiated article that potentially puts someone's life at risk is, for lack of a stronger word, wrong.
- sillysaurus3 11y agoWhich part of http://gizmodo.com/this-australian-says-he-and-his-dead-friend-invented-bi-1746958692 http://gizmodo.com/this-australian-says-he-and-his-dead-frie... do you believe is unsubstantiated? The situation is just confusing. Help me understand what's going on here. If part of that article is unsubstantiated, then everyone would be interested in that.
- eudox 11y agoWe have no way to independently verify the authenticity of the leaks, the key "evidence" is a dead-end, so are the edits to the posts, as the authors admit in the Wired article.