Please, hilarious, let’s not start the rumour-mill. Do you really want to see Lauda sightings like Elvis Satoshi from now until the next century?
Sure. The speculation will be fun if/when anyone suspects it.
Besides being annoyingly stupid, the speculation could open the way for scams. Which is exactly what Lauda has hereby so striven to prevent, in case OP wasn’t sufficiently clear.
Over the years people have even trusted "Lauda" with different sums of Bitcoin. I have one of the highest name-recognition accounts on the forum. This places on me a responsibility. It is not to feed my strong ego that I say, it is a valuable account with a high reputation - a trust that people place in my unseen body, through the name of "Lauda". If I cease to be "Lauda" then according to my well-known principles, I must affirmatively prevent anybody else from using this name and forum account ever again.
Consider a long con involving false public hints, then private communications, concluding with: “Yeah, sure, um, psst, a little secret:
I’m Lauda’s alt. Whisper, wink, nudge. Escrow 1000 BTC with me!” It is a prospect that would most displease the cat.
There's been a few people in the past that have claimed they're leaving only to try build a new account. Then there will be all those who are clever enough to mask their behaviour. And then of course some people will just leave forever for whatever reason, but there's a few people that I don't think will ever leave here unless it shuts down of becomes unprofitable for them.
I respect Lauda too much to suppose that her life revolves around an Internet forum.
Lauda isn't a female. People just used to misgender him
It is hilarious that you are so sure. Even more hilarious that you are trying to explain this to me.
On this particular point, the only certainty is that you know no more than I do.
because I'm assuming they thought his username was a female one (maybe it people think it's close Laura or something) and he just played into that but I don't believe he's ever claimed to be female.
“Lauda” is an actual name. Although it
seems to be a girl’s given name (five seconds of searching, people!) with an obvious Latin derivation
(duh!), I have also seen it alleged to be masculine
[citation/explanation needed]. It is also a
surname.
But that does not mean much. “Loyce” is a girl’s name, but I never assumed that LoyceV was female; it contradicts his behaviour.
I categorized Lauda as “probably female” because in real life, I have known highly intelligent,
very willful women who closely matched her in personality and behaviour. I don’t go in for mechanistic application of dumb stereotypes. She
is a type. And that is all of the (admittedly unreliable, speculative non-)information that I have to go on, because...
I don't believe he's ever claimed to be female.
No, Lauda has never claimed to be female. When I have asked her in private, she refused to answer either way—due to privacy, for it is
one binary bit of personally identifying information (damn it, this forum needs an undelete button!* Loyce’s archive) to partition her anonymity set. That is not my guess: It is what she told me. She was always deadly serious about privacy and anonymity.
...all that she will tell me is, “I’m a cat.” Quote-unquote.
She—eh, he could be a man. *shrug* It’s none of my business, because we didn’t have
that type of a relationship (other than jokes, not unlike all the jokes about her and theymos). I am also serious about privacy, so I respect the privacy of others.
* I just drunkenly reached for the nonexistent quote button on one of my favourite posts on a locked thread, and hit the delete button instead. Damn it.
Well obviously he's pretty serious about burning that account for whatever reason.
Indeed.
