Whenever someone passes away, I can't help but think of this poem by John Donne:
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
Losing someone is always an herculean task, and losing someone as Dan, who contributed not only to defend Bitcoin as something that was built like a fortress, but who also contributed to other projects such as
DNS flaws, is always something that leaves a deep cut in humanity. People on
twitter really show that he was kind member of the hacker/Infosec community. May you rest in peace Dan.
Could be interesting for Bitcointalk to have a who’s who section, with a brief biopic to core bitcoin/Bitcoin contributors, and their profile here.
And yes agree. A memorial section for his account, and somewhat of a who's who would be a cool place for newbies to start out.
I agree and it might be interesting to read if someone could make a post with all known contributors and their bitcointalk accounts.
The though of making such a list / thread has came to my mind a few times already, namely due to the fact that I believe we should keep a record/history of the people that contributed to the place where Bitcoin is today, although such action is also dependent on everyone that has used bitcoin to this very day. However while I was searching for the forum for any kind of persons / contributors to add to the list, I was met with two threads that already approach this subject:
I think that we can't really update/make any changes to the second topic due to the fact that the last time that the user logged in the forum was December 22th of 2020.
However the first thread was made by achow101 and he just logged in today so there are more opportunities to be able to change/update the thread with him. Even so, do you see any benefit of creating a new thread were we would gather all the contributors in one tiddy place? I was in the process of building a table with information such as:
Active?*| | Name| | Alias (Twitter)| | Alias (Bitcointalk)| | GitHub Profile| | Relevant work| | Support his work* |
*Yes,No,Deceased
**I was thinking in adding the page where the person gave the possibility for people to donate. I don't want to directly place the BTC address but if you guys don't see it as a negative thing, I wouldn't mind.
This of course is a WIP for some time now, but I would like to know your opinion on this as I also think that this should be kept updated and somewhere in our forum because it would be a nice homage and a way to show new members who came before them (and some are still on the fight).