that was at best a below average talk. wow, harvard education and this is what public speaking sounds like? ouch.
Not everyone can give a Steve Job-like presentation. These guys are just VC's, rich kids with money to burn. But at least they speak in a honest and frank manner, from the bottom of their hearts. They don't give a shit about Bitcoin. They mock bankers, and their father is an actuary -- they got their money from the financial sector. What have they done or said that indicates they don't give a shit about Bitcoin? They want it regulated. They're shills for the financial industry. Maybe they see that regulation is unavoidable if Bitcoin is to gain mainstream adoption. It might not be a bad thing for services for Bitcoin to be regulated. But Bitcoin itself is difficult to regulate. |
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that was at best a below average talk. wow, harvard education and this is what public speaking sounds like? ouch.
Not everyone can give a Steve Job-like presentation. These guys are just VC's, rich kids with money to burn. But at least they speak in a honest and frank manner, from the bottom of their hearts. They don't give a shit about Bitcoin. They mock bankers, and their father is an actuary -- they got their money from the financial sector. What have they done or said that indicates they don't give a shit about Bitcoin? Does it matter what they have said or not said? Couple of fucking thiefs. Bitcoin was probably their idea. Some slanty eyed Jap stole it from them. Did you miss your dose of Valium this morning? |
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that was at best a below average talk. wow, harvard education and this is what public speaking sounds like? ouch.
Not everyone can give a Steve Job-like presentation. These guys are just VC's, rich kids with money to burn. But at least they speak in a honest and frank manner, from the bottom of their hearts. They don't give a shit about Bitcoin. They mock bankers, and their father is an actuary -- they got their money from the financial sector. What have they done or said that indicates they don't give a shit about Bitcoin? |
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that was at best a below average talk. wow, harvard education and this is what public speaking sounds like? ouch.
Not everyone can give a Steve Job-like presentation. These guys are just VC's, rich kids with money to burn. But at least they speak in a honest and frank manner, from the bottom of their hearts. |
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This guy apparently has zero programming experience.
Who said he actually wrote the program? He might have worked with a couple of other people to make Bitcoin. |
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you may be right  well if an entity power want to track who he is is not impossible to do, just demand ip addresses of his email, github, sourceforge, or wherever he showed up, there could be a time when he did not surf on tor. Interesting question is what's the reasons he(or they) has to hide his identity ? Anonymous are a freaking joke, V for Vendetta is a great movie regardless. Nah, the movie completely missed the point of the comic book. They made it into a superhero flick with the dumbest ending possible (totally not the same message as the book). |
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Satoshi could just be a group... a group of brilliant minds that include Mochizuki and Hal Finney.
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I don't suppose we could ban these threads, could we? Every day, two new people come forward insisting two different people we've never heard of are definitely Satoshi.
Especially since Satoshi probably isn't Japanese. Why does everyone keep saying that he can't be Japanese? |
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You have it the wrong way around based on the timeline Having a good proper English spellcheck is actually hard, compared to the many american based ones you get for free with most writing software tools these days. Darn you Americans owning the world lol. So if Satoshi has great British writing style in 2009, why is Shinichi Mochizuki so very very american. it could be argued that a British expert would use a cheap software defaulted to American and allowed all of the British spellings be transformed into American. But an American writing the white paper AND many, many lines of code and emails over several months to write in British style. now that takes some effort. remember Satoshi did not just write the white paper, there is code in the github and email correspondence which can show that Satoshi's writing is very much British education based. although i do not care about Satoshi's true identity, i do like to correct people when they are grabbing at straws. i will now leave you with a quote from someone else with a hidden identity: It's not who you are underneath, but what you do that defines you. Dark Knight For someone as clever as Shinichi, faking an entire "British" persona may not be as challenging you would envision. Perhaps you're right, Shinichi isn't Satoshi. But we're all assuming that Satoshi is one person. Perhaps Shinichi is a part of Satoshi - the group. |
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The guy's whole theory is based on the idea that since this math guy is a loner who sprung his mathematical proof on the world, he is like Satoshi being a loner springing his Bitcoin concept on the world.
I doubt that Satoshi would be Japanese too...and it was claimed that his writing was very british.
It's not very hard for someone as elusive as Satoshi to fake his writing style. |
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 Why am I getting a weird vibe about this Satoshi hunt? Mr. Ted Nelson reminds me of "Hadden" from Contact (1997). A cool and wise old intellectual. |
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I can tip anyone with online banking too
Just give me your bank #
Bitcoin is not special in this aspect rofl, it's not like I can tip you without your address
Tipping possibility on some sites is just some system which could 100% be built for USD too
#OPFAIL
Can you tip through your bank pseudoanonymously? What if the only way you can tip that person is by wiring money? The transaction fees would probably be larger than the tip itself. It's very hard to tip very small amounts using conventional methods, especially for someone who simply creates content on a whim and don't want to give away their banking information. Wiring money is free in europe What about international wires? Or wiring a tiny amount (under 1 Euro)? |
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I can tip anyone with online banking too
Just give me your bank #
Bitcoin is not special in this aspect rofl, it's not like I can tip you without your address
Tipping possibility on some sites is just some system which could 100% be built for USD too
#OPFAIL
Can you tip through your bank pseudoanonymously? What if the only way you can tip that person is by wiring money? The transaction fees would probably be larger than the tip itself. It's very hard to tip very small amounts using conventional methods, especially for someone who simply creates content on a whim and don't want to give away their banking information. |
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Yep.
Those who have the technical know-how of creating easy to use "tipping" apps will surely make a lot of profit.
There's an opportunity. I think this aspect of Bitcoin could be huge. All of a sudden, there's a new motivation to research and publish information. It can be a double-edge sword; you might get a ton of new content on sites like Youtube that are even more piss-poor than what we have now, just because people are fishing for tips. On the other hand, it could introduce much higher quality forms of "free" media if there's a partial incentive to create things for tips. |
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Yep.
Those who have the technical know-how of creating easy to use "tipping" apps will surely make a lot of profit.
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using bureaucratic agencies to exact your vengeance.
Correction: Using bureaucratic agencies to shed light on a company that openly has contempt for it's customers, fires those customers after they've endured one delay after another, one broken promise after another, more taunting and unprofessionalism from an officer of the company, after calling them out on it in a public forum. This is not normal behavior to see from a product developer. I don't know what country you live in, or what other companies you have dealt with that treated you similarly, and think it's OK. In retrospect, I should indeed have taken a refund. Captain Hindsight and so on and so forth. Pre-orders are a risky business. They're fraught with delays. Anybody who buys into a pre-order with pre-conceived notions other than "I'll get this eventually, and be among the first to get it, when they FINALLY come" needs to reevaluate their participation in pre-orders. I've personally handled group buys/preorders in the past as well. I refuse to do them anymore, because something ALWAYS happens, and you end up 'breaking promises' due to circumstances beyond your control. When pre-orders have been delayed in the past, I've offered people the option to obtain refunds. The people who didn't want to wait anymore took the refunds. Some took refunds faster than others, some waited longer than others, but every single one of them had the common sense to recognize that the ball was in THEIR court. If they chose to continue to wait, then that choice was on THEM, not on me. If people had started trashing me, I'd have refunded their pre-order money as well. In the end, the reasonable people all walked away no worse for the wear. The people who waited got their product eventually. The people who didn't, got their money. And people have BEGGED me to run similar pre-orders since. But I don't do it anymore, even though 99.9% of the people involved were reasonable throughout the whole thing. I think the majority of BFL buyers are the same way (reasonable, that is), but the vocal majority sure to make it suck for everybody else. Bureaucratic agencies aren't there to repair hurt feelings, or to punish companies for saying things that strike you as 'unprofessional'. They're there to address cases of ACTUAL fraud, which you've admitted you don't believe is the case. Hence, your behavior and decision to waste the time of those agencies is childish and petty, and worthy of nothing but scorn and contempt. But keep digging, I guess... Too bad you're not BFL. You're just some random joe blow on a forum, you're not a professional company, which is what BFL is aspiring to be. There's the difference. In your world, customers would never complain about BFL and just sit there for another year, am I right? |
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You know, if BFL was considerate, somewhat on schedule with their promises, and didn't have a PR guy coming in here treating his customers like his enemies, then maybe people wouldn't get so upset with the company. You can make as many excuses as you want for BFL, but the fact is that many rational and reasonable customers are not happy. You can't simply tell me that they're all idiots or are trolling for the sake of trolling. BFL simply gets away with it because they're out of the physical reach of most of their customers.
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Well well. What do we have here. You've been waiting for 11 month. You were posting negative things about BFL and they found out about this. Now the order is due for cancel & refund and you started to whine like a little girl. We all so brave on the internet, as long as our identities are kept confidential, right?
BFL: please go ahead and refund that idiot. Make an example of him so the rest of the crowd will think twice before they post. 4 singles to be removed from the queue - that means that majority of folks will get their hardware faster (assuming the order is 11 month old).
Way to go!
How come all these pro-BFL posts read the same? Wouldn't surprised me if BFL just made multiple troll accounts to ridicule their critics. |
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