4 ms·
You don't think it strange that the guy who taught a course on blockchains at MIT has never made a transaction on a blockchain?
by indy 3y ago
You don't think it strange that the guy who taught a course on blockchains at MIT has never made a transaction on a blockchain?
- thisgoesnowhere 3y agoYou think it's strange that people who are researching cancer drugs have never taken them themselves?
- latchkey 3y agoThe analogy doesn't work. Everyone has money. Not everyone has cancer. Anyone who takes cancer drugs, is doing research. There is no "cure" for cancer (yet).
- indy 3y agoNo I don't think that's strange. A better analogy might be: would you think it strange that someone teaching a C programming class has never compiled a program?
- latchkey 3y agoexactly. would you think it is strange that someone who's teaching a C programming class that has never used a computer?
- thisgoesnowhere 3y agoThere is reason to believe that if he did own it directly that would be a conflict of interest. Here is a actual similar story without hyperbole since this actually happened. 'Imagine someone trying to bring a injunction against Liberty Reserve without owning any any stock in the company or having ever used their products'. 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve
- CPLX 3y agoNo. I also think a botanist could understand how plants reproduce without ever having fucked a cabbage.
- jonnydubowsky 3y agoyou win the internet today.
- latchkey 3y agoThat's absolutely hilarious, but a bad analogy. Have you ever met a botanist who's never touched a plant?
- pcthrowaway 3y agoI'm sure there's a kinky botanist out there somewhere who would beg to differ
- im3w1l 3y agoIsn't the simplest explanation here that he has in fact done a transaction on a blockchain, but for whatever reason refuses to own up to it?
- indy 3y agoExactly! And now the question becomes: why would he make such a lie before the House Financial Services Committee?