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Neither you nor I represent the community, and there are those that like it and those that don’t. It’s funny, it’s almost like hackers are interested in differe
by randomhodler84 5y ago
Neither you nor I represent the community, and there are those that like it and those that don’t. It’s funny, it’s almost like hackers are interested in different things. I am glad you are finding using cryptocurrency useful, despite disliking it.
- nikolay 5y agoOh, and you do represent it? How can a hacker, per se, be interested in something that was most probably released by NSA by all indications and which offers just quasi-anonymity?! How can a hacker be interested in something so wasteful, slow, and expensive to transact?! Bitcoin is anything but a hacker's dream!
- randomhodler84 5y agoHackers like a lot of things made by them, SELinux and Ghidra are two example. Very good products. SELinux protects billions of devices. I don’t think the NSA invented Bitcoin, there is no evidence of this. It does however serve the purposes of information assurance mission by generating some real world metrics of the cost, in both energy and compute/memory, and also an early warning and bounty system on SHA2 and ECDSA sigs.
- nikolay 5y agoGoogle "How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash" if you haven't already. Bitcoin is a honeypot for illicit actors. And so far it's been serving its purpose well - just like Tor.