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Of all the people that have been suggested to be satoshi - csw is the one that comes closest to what I would expect them to be. As sort of tragic character - lo
by throwaway4good 2y ago
Of all the people that have been suggested to be satoshi - csw is the one that comes closest to what I would expect them to be. As sort of tragic character - lots of random academic degrees but no career - probably hard to work with, arrogant, rambling and terrible at public speaking.
The start of Bitcoin with a pseudo academic whitepaper and the grandiosity of the first message encoded rather than just going straight to code like a normal open source project hints at this.
- jcrash 2y agoGee what an awful take
- rideontime 2y agoThis does not strike me as the comment of somebody who actually read any of Satoshi's writing. From what I've seen, neither "arrogant" nor "rambling" actually applied to him, which Justice Mellor's ruling also reflects upon.
- bdcravens 2y agoThis take requires one to ignore all of the obvious places Wright has stolen the work of others, his blatant attempts to pass off forgeries and screenshots as evidence, etc.
- whimsicalism 2y ago> probably hard to work with, arrogant, rambling and terrible at public speaking. This current moment of intense cultural fact-free ressentiment around anything tech-related is getting exhausting. How much longer until it ebbs?
- sdwr 2y agoGrandiosity is a big ego without results - Bitcoin got the results! There's the interesting moment when making a project, where you believe it could be successful. Most stuff doesn't make it, most creative work is internally rewarding at best. How someone deals, copes with that little flicker of hope that what they're doing might matter is interesting.