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Who is Ray Dillinger? Why should we trust him with this post?

• wmf 9y ago
  We're talking about Bitcoin so obviously you should trust no one. But most of this post is either his opinion or information that was already well-known, so I think we can get some value out of it even if we don't trust the author.
• AceJohnny2 9y ago
  A cursory search reveals guy who was involved in BitCoin from the very start. For example, here's an exchange he had in 2008 with Satoshi over the design of Bitcoin: http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/5/ http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/5/
  • optimuspaul 9y ago
    Wow, Satoshi was incredibly naive, dishonest, or just didn't have any idea how quickly it would get out of control.
    • just_one_time_ 9y ago
      Wow, these Core Trolls are everywhere, any chance to shit on Satoshi and push the new, Bitcoin is a Settlement layer agenda.
    • bsaul 9y ago
      Are you talking about the linked post regarding inflation ? because it seems to me satoshi was pretty right, by saying that bitcoins will get rarer and rarer even if miners mine more and more thanks to powerful machines. Rarer bitcoins means prices going down ( what costed 1 bitcoin before probably cost 0.001 bitcoin now), not up ( which is the definition of inflation).
      • sah2ed 9y ago
        > which is the definition of inflation I think you meant to write deflation.
        • bsaul 9y ago
          Deflation is prices going down. ( i should have said "which would be the definition of inflation")
• lisper 9y ago
  > Who is Ray Dillinger? He is a well known figure within the crypto community. He is also a very private person. > Why should we trust him with this post? What makes you think that you should? I'm pretty sure Ray would be the first to tell you that you shouldn't trust anyone, particularly not on the internet.