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Awesome story! And all this before 28… Though not a contender for “greatest counterfeiter”, there is also William Chaloner (1650–1699), who had a similar idea
by svat 3y ago
Awesome story! And all this before 28…
Though not a contender for “greatest counterfeiter”, there is also William Chaloner (1650–1699), who had a similar idea (“the safest place from which to pass his money was the Mint itself”), and did battle with Sir Isaac Newton. There's a great book about this called Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson; I wrote a blog post about it some years ago, with the subtitle “What happens when Newton’s laws are violated”: https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/dont-mess-with-a-genius/ https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/dont-mess-with-a... (aside: the free wordpress.com hosting injects lots of ads these days sadly)
- 123pie123 3y agowow fantastic read, as good if not better then the main story(because it's bloody Isaac Newton doing this!! ) I'm surprised there's not a movie out based on this story
- more_corn 3y agoI would watch the heck out of this Netflix series. Way better than Sherlock Holmes.
- darkclouds 3y agoSo where would Satoshi Nakamoto sit in the scheme of things considering the total value of crypto currency?
- block_dagger 3y agoInventing a financial system that is voluntarily adopted internationally is not counterfeiting. In fact, Satoshi invented the first currency impossible to counterfeit (barring 51% attack).
- darkclouds 3y agoAnything man made can be counterfeited, and ultimately the threat of violence is what deters those that have the resources to counterfeit. The philosophy of Injin, The Man, The Legend
- flangola7 3y agoPresumably a "-$1" with many zeroes behind it.
- dang 3y agoRelated ongoing thread: Don’t mess with a genius (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37501231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37501231 - Sept 2023 (49 comments)