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It's at least as clever as all the other questionable shit the finance guys do to make money nowadays (HFT, CDO, etc.) I would not be surprised at all if "Satos
by hyperbovine 13y ago
It's at least as clever as all the other questionable shit the finance guys do to make money nowadays (HFT, CDO, etc.) I would not be surprised at all if "Satoshi" is somebody on Wall Street. (Although (s)he seems to know a lot more about crypto than your average quant.)
- t0 13y agoOr a government.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5547423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5547423
- jychang 13y agoTo be fair to the quants, you need a serious knowledge of CS for some of the algos. That probably speaks against the probability that Satoshi is a wall street guy, though, if his coding is amateur.
- emmelaich 13y agoI don't think finance software is typically very polished. Deadlines are the enemy of quality code and finance has some of the hardest deadlines.