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This thread is full of claims like this... without evidence to back them up. "I know who wrote the protocol, but I can't tell you. Do your homework." "The pro

by chm 14y ago

This thread is full of claims like this... without evidence to back them up. "I know who wrote the protocol, but I can't tell you. Do your homework." "The protocol is years ahead of everything else, but I can't talk about it."

rdl 14y ago
"Novel" or "difficult to implement" doesn't actually mean better or years ahead. Researchers tweak things to be novel when standard tools will work just for the purposes of experimenting sometimes. I've been arguing that 1981-tech is superior to Bitcoin, even though Bitcoin is novel.