2013-04-09 Bruce Schneier

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Well-known security & cryptography guru (I recall some posts on this forum theorizing he was Satoshi) weighs in:

Bitcoins in the Mainstream Media

Interesting article from the New Yorker.

I'm often asked what I think about bitcoins. I haven't analyzed the security, but what I have seen looks good. The real issues are economic and political, and I don't have the expertise to have an opinion on that.

BTW, here's a recent criticism of BitCoins.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/04/bitcoins_in_the.html

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[cypherdoc]

Hard to believe he hasn't looked at it given he's talked about it a few times.

[n8rwJeTt8TrrLKPa55eU]

Hard to believe he hasn't looked at it given he's talked about it a few times.

Yes, frankly that post reads like a crude misdirection.  For what reason, I don't know.

[herzmeister]

I guess that's because his employer is British Telecom.

[ShireSilver]

Hard to believe he hasn't looked at it given he's talked about it a few times.

Yes, frankly that post reads like a crude misdirection.  For what reason, I don't know.

LOL, he's either Satoshi and misdirecting or he just hasn't been paid to check the code.