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As I pointed out in the now dead earlier thread that while there's obviously privacy issues and Newsweek should have written the article without so many persona
by ig1 13y ago
As I pointed out in the now dead earlier thread that while there's obviously privacy issues and Newsweek should have written the article without so many personal details there is clearly a public interest angle here.
If the article is accurate the bitcoin founder has a background working as a software engineer on classified US government projects, which makes it a public interest issue due to pre-existing concerns that a government could have designed bitcoin to have secret vulnerabilities/backdoors.
- Semaphor 13y agoSure, I don't think many people would complain if they had written an article like that. The problem is the article this tabloid decided to publish.
- eloff 13y agoThe government now wants to backdoor bitcoin? I think you need a reality check.
- ig1 13y agoThe pre-existing concern wasn't that the government wanted to backdoor the crypto (as they have done with BSAFE, etc.) rather that Bitcoin might have been invented by a government for their own reasons. Obviously you can argue how likely that would be, but it's been widely discussed in the bitcoin community in the past and has been an issue of concern given there are "arbitrary" cryptographic decisions in the bitcoin algorithm design without clear reasoning.