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A while back PG asked "what motive could a government actor have to create bitcoin?" Could the long game answer be "To teach the masses of idiot developers bas
by Phlarp 13y ago
A while back PG asked "what motive could a government actor have to create bitcoin?"
Could the long game answer be "To teach the masses of idiot developers basic info security"? If you take a step back the whole thing is a pretty neat experiment in punishing poor security practices.
As a soon to graduate computer science graduate, learning the in's and out's of bitcoin in the hope of making money has taught me way more about application security and the underlying crypto than four years of state schooling did.