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Its hard to tell if this user is a troll, or if they just don't get tech, but surely Jimmy would be better off not replying? Surely he gets bombarded with rewr
by willvarfar 7y ago
Its hard to tell if this user is a troll, or if they just don't get tech, but surely Jimmy would be better off not replying?
Surely he gets bombarded with rewrite suggestions and pointless distractions all the time, and he is pretty practiced at just ignoring them?
- tpetry 7y agoYeah i dont get it too. Using a blockchain to defend wikpedia from uploading child pornography. Defending it by uploading it to an immutable undeletable „datastore“? I think someone now saw the blockchain hype and want to propose it without understanding, like a few years ago when it was really a new hype.
- mar77i 7y agoThe blockchain idea is well-intended, I believe. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vinci-on-the-blockchain/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vi...
- gerikson 7y agoWales was invited to speak at the Coingeek conference, an event funded by Calvin Ayres who is one of the main movers behind the Bitcoin SV ("Satoshi's Vision") fork. After some dismay from people opposed to this (both people who are "anti-Bitcoin", and the Bitcoin proponents who are anti-SV), he stated that he intends to speak his mind and tell the conference that BSV won't help Wikipedia in any way. Wales is no stranger to social media or publicity. The fact that this thread has been posted to HN shows that.
- thrower123 7y agoThere's a lot of value in publicly, and decisively, slapping down nonsense from time to time. It's the kind of thing that we really need people to do more of.