A matter for the elite BTC detectives.

[MPOE-PR]

I wish to know who Mencius Moldbug of http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/ is. Finder's fee available. Thanks.

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[OpenYourEyes]

This guy?
What do you want to know?

[greyhawk]

This guy?
What do you want to know?

She wants the real identity behind the fake name. And that's something better Internet Detectives have tried and failed to solve.

What is known is that he is a 1992 Brown University alumni in Computer Sciences who made fuck-you money in a dot com bubble
and now sits on his arse in SF and drowns the Internet in a flood of words all day and that's about it.

I've found some very, veeeeeeeery spurious connections to a real life name, but by far not enough to justify posting about it, because I'm very likely completely wrong.

[01BTC10]

In his own words:

Mencius Moldbug lives in San Francisco, where he is temporarily retired from the software industry. His principal occupations are feeding ravens, reading old books, and working on his programming language, which will be done any year now. You can contact him at moldbug@gmail.com.

http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2007/04/_trial_version.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZluMysK2B1E
http://vimeo.com/9262193

Additional info I found but I'm stopping there.

[MPOE-PR]

She wants the real identity behind the fake name. And that's something better Internet Detectives have tried and failed to solve.

What is known is that he is a 1992 Brown University alumni in Computer Sciences who made fuck-you money in a dot com bubble
and now sits on his arse in SF and drowns the Internet in a flood of words all day and that's about it.

I've found some very, veeeeeeeery spurious connections to a real life name, but by far not enough to justify posting about it, because I'm very likely completely wrong.

Thank you.

In his own words:

Mencius Moldbug lives in San Francisco, where he is temporarily retired from the software industry. His principal occupations are feeding ravens, reading old books, and working on his programming language, which will be done any year now. You can contact him at moldbug@gmail.com.

http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2007/04/_trial_version.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZluMysK2B1E
http://vimeo.com/9262193

Additional info I found but I'm stopping there.

Thank you too!

The BTC Detectives Club delivers. *Bows*

[Phinnaeus Gage]

http://lesswrong.com/lw/4cs/making_money_with_bitcoin/

Mencius Moldbug weighs in with his version of this argument:

"If Bitcoin becomes the new global monetary system, one bitcoin purchased today (for 90 cents, last time I checked) will make you a very wealthy individual. You are essentially buying Manhattan for a quarter. There are only 21 million bitcoins (including those not yet minted). (In my design, this was a far more elegant 2^64, with quantities in exponential notation. Just sayin'.) Mapped to $100 trillion of global money, to pull a random number out of the air, you become a millionaire. Wow!

So even if the probability of Bitcoin succeeding is epsilon, a million to one, it's still worthwhile for anyone to buy at least a few bitcoins now. The currency thus derives an initial value from this probability, and boots itself into existence from pure worthlessness - becoming a viable repository of savings. If a very strange, dangerous and unstable one.

I think the probability of Bitcoin succeeding is very low. I would not put it at a million to one, though, so I recommend that you go out and buy a few bitcoins if you have the technical chops. My financial advice is to not buy more than ten, which should be F-U money if Bitcoin wins."