midmagico

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by midmagico 4y ago
Incorrect; it was released under the MIT licence with the rest of the code, since it is "associated documentation" as it was published alongside the code on the bitcoin.org website upon first release. Further, Satoshi explicitly r
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by midmagico 4y ago
This is incorrect; all OSS licensing including the MIT licence is a hack which defeats and circumvents the current automatic copyright regime. The issue in this case is that for any software which is released by anyone, for free, no matte
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by midmagico 4y ago
If the appeals court judges decided to push this case forward as a precedent (they didn't really, although they implied as much in their decision) it is not only completely financially infeasible to expect someone to pay millions of do
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by midmagico 4y ago
No, this is false, because you have a direct relationship with your bank in the form of a contract, payment for services, and a direct monetary/depositor relationship. If this analogy were closer to reality, it would be like claiming t
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by midmagico 4y ago
Default judgements can be the basis of internationally-targetted lawsuits aimed at enforcement of same; they can form the basis of arrest warrants, which implies never travelling to places where the UK can send police officers to arrest you
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by midmagico 4y ago
This is irrelevant, since the theory is that a fiduciary duty exists completely absent any interaction, and any payment, whatsoever, or in the event literally anyone else pays you to do the work (including your employer), you are now a fidu
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by midmagico 4y ago
Yeah, this.
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by midmagico 4y ago
Look down a bit, nullc wrote a large paragraph explaining what's going on.
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by midmagico 4y ago
lol, no. The signatures were made long after Hal's death, and there is ample evidence which demonstrates this.
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by midmagico 4y ago
At least you can do backups.
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by midmagico 4y ago
Both of these have been widely debunked as Satoshi candidates, especially the latter.
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by midmagico 4y ago
Yes, there's one already, it just sucks and can't be used from the command-line because the authors were academics. It's called anonymouth.
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by midmagico 4y ago
Well, luckily it turns out that literally every person who attempts it can fool humans' best stylometric fingerprinting, so, meh?
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by midmagico 5y ago
irony
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by midmagico 5y ago
Nobody believes he owns any of those Bitcoins except easy victims and paid shills (and they merely pretend to.)
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by midmagico 5y ago
This is a hilarious lie.
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by midmagico 5y ago
You knew this already. Also, Craig's defending the claim using statements about Forth-likeness, which is the same thing he insists Bitcoin script is because magic-of-a-second-stack. Additionally, he re-iterated the exact claim that Bit
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by midmagico 5y ago
There is stronger evidence that paper is nonsense than there is that it's a valid piece of academia. As per painted_frog's superb sleuthing, even the electron microscope image in there was just a rotated and cropped image from ano
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by midmagico 5y ago
Spot the Apple employee in the comments who wasn't the one who leaked the internal NCMEC memo..
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by midmagico 5y ago
> Bitcoin developers are at fault here for refusing to increase the block size This, of course, is nonsense; they increased it significantly beyond what some reasonable research showed was safe. The current best-available research shows
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by midmagico 5y ago
Actively spying on the comms of thousands of people would be superb intel-gathering technique, especially when so many users are now virtual currency users.
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by midmagico 6y ago
Pretty easy to risk someone else's safety with lies from behind that alias, isn't it
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by midmagico 6y ago
I'm the reason why Core removed Gavin's commit access, as I pointed out that he doesn't use it, he was bamboozled by Craig, and in fact Gavin himself agreed that it should've been done long before just as a security meas
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by midmagico 6y ago
The narratives are designed to be earwormy, and everyone wants to live in a spy novel filled with scary conspiracies, so when they hear it, it slips in the backdoor cognitive holes, and they do only minimal "verification" if any a
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by midmagico 6y ago
These are of course multiple well-publicized but zero-fact assertions used as propaganda to trick people into ethereum and other altcoin bags.
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by midmagico 7y ago
Hello, I am an enthusiastic customer, and in case you missed my comments to you elsewhere, if you do shift sales in another direction, please consider continuing to sell to the hardcore old customers willing to do their own work on this har
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by midmagico 9y ago
You're using too many commas.
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by midmagico 9y ago
.. ask the author. He's the one that put that in the paper. Didn't you read it?
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by midmagico 10y ago
Correct! And yet nobody is seriously (i.e. with code in a PR) wanting to completely disable all forms of ASICBoost. Just the covert kind which is incompatible with a bunch of important protocol upgrades and interesting ideas that make Bitco
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by midmagico 10y ago
Nobody is saying we have to close off ASICBoost. Just the covert method of it which is incentive-incompatible with important protocol upgrades.

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