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The people who lose credibility here are * The Economist * BBC * Gavin Andresen (unless he was hacked)
by VMG 10y ago
The people who lose credibility here are
* The Economist
* BBC
* Gavin Andresen (unless he was hacked)
- jbmorgado 10y agoWell, Gavin Andresen is a bitcoin core dev that according to this very news just got hacked. It's logical to think that when a core dev of something as sensible as bitcoin get's hacked and you can't trust the code anymore, it takes a really big chunk of credibility from bitcoin.
- VMG 10y agoIt's not clear if Gavin's Blog, Twitter or commit-access machine was hacked, if at all. Gavin is one of many core devs, and Bitcoin good enough security procedures to survive a dev's machine being hacked.
- sspiff 10y agoI think you mean to say sensitive, not sensible. Sensible means "makes sense".
- jakub_g 10y agoThat's a common mistake, and BTW, in Spanish and French "sensible" is the word for "sensitive" (I infer from the name the parent could be of Spanish-speaking origin)
- wolfgke 10y agoThis is a typical German-English false friend: sensible (en) - vernünftig (de) sensitive (en) - sensibel (de)
- thevibesman 10y agoAlso in French: sensible (en) - raisonnable (fr) sensitive (en) - sensible (fr)
- jbmorgado 10y agoYes, I meant "sensitive" thank you. It's that in my mother language "sensível" means "sensitive" in English, hence the mistake.
- danielweber 10y agoI can't figure out the news story where Gavin got hacked or his access revoked. This is a giant ouroboros of everything linking in a circle. I'd almost suspect a practical joke of some kind if the major news organizations weren't invovled.
- Lxr 10y agoBBC and Gavin yes, though the tone from the Economist was quite skeptical I think.
- vintermann 10y agoEconomist did the same thing Wired (Andy Greenberg) did last time Wright made his claims: investigate, find pretty damning evidence of deception, but still spin it to "but he might still not have faked everything". The Satoshi of the Gaps.
- dfc 10y ago"The Gaps"? What does that phrase mean?
- _jomo 10y agoFrom the Wikipedia page in the neighbor comment: > ...to point out the fallacy of relying on teleological arguments for God's existence. Some use the phrase to refer to a form of the argument from ignorance fallacy.
- scbrg 10y agoA reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps, presumably. Finding "evidence" to support your belief in what is still unknown.
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