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The title here says "A new Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike." But the article describes his involvement as "Marlinspike has been working on as a technical
by dustdrops 9y ago
The title here says "A new Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike."
But the article describes his involvement as "Marlinspike has been working on as a technical advisor."
Those two descriptions sound different.
- wmf 9y agoThat's just "meritocracy" in action. The founder of a project gets all the credit for it, and when there are multiple founders the most famous one gets all the credit.
- mrhappyunhappy 9y agoHe is not even a cofounder according to their website. They just picked out whoever is most famous.
- philipwhiuk 9y agoThe cryptographer is an advisor and there's no mention of any financial experience / economics experience. I assume this is another early adopter, mining platform.... Nobody's decided to solve that rather fatal flaw.