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What, are you high? :) In all seriousness, it's an intriguing idea, and you point out some interesting parallels, but the idea of the Silk Road seems really sm
by Aqueous 13y ago
What, are you high? :)
In all seriousness, it's an intriguing idea, and you point out some interesting parallels, but the idea of the Silk Road seems really small for someone like Satoshi Nakamoto, given that BitCoin is a work of unusual genius that potentially has world-changing power, and the Silk Road is about trafficking narcotics. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I want to think the creator of BitCoin has larger, more expansive goals in mind than getting people high or even undermining the war on drugs.
Thinking that the creator of Silk Road is also the creator of BitCoin is like answering the question, "Why hasn't the miner of the first million BitCoins spent any of his currency?" by suggesting that Satoshi accidentally erased his wallet.
Which would be hilarious. 'Fuck me,' I would imagine him saying.
- mrb 13y agoRead http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collected-quotations-of-the-dread-pirate-roberts-founder-of-the-drug-site-silk-road-and-radical-libertarian/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collect... to understand the world-changing ambition that DPR has. The Silk Road is a lot more than trafficking narcotics for DPR. To the point that reading his thoughts in this Forbes article is what made me think he could be Satoshi.
- Aqueous 13y agoHis passion is admirable, but his vision for himself and his site seems a little grandiose. He might have world-changing ambition but Silk Road is not a world-changing idea. BitCoin attacks the status quo at its center - our entire system of finance, which forms the nucleus of a credit-driven economy, depends on having a currency that is issued and regulated from a central authority. BitCoin is a blow to state power at its core. Silk Road is just a store, or bazaar, that takes BitCoin.