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Perhaps, where's there's smoke there's fire. Did it every occur to you that their might be something inherently wrong with Bitcoin given there is no transparen

• vertex-four 12y ago
  > Did it every occur to you that their might be something inherently wrong with Bitcoin given there is no transparency around who exactly created it That's not really relevant, is it? It's open-source code that does not depend on any central entity. Either it's useful or it isn't - there isn't anything hidden. > and why? We do have some hints as to why - Satoshi posted a fair amount in the Bitcoin Talk forums before disappearing, as well as some mailing lists. Here's a reason posted to a mailing list: http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09971.html http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg099... Today, it's developed by a number of people who are all reasonably open as to why they're developing it.