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Yawn, bold opinion piece "Robert". This guy is a hack, he predicted IBM would be reduced to a 20B sales company (I laughed out loud), and apparently scammed a bunch of kids with a "Mineserver" crowd fund that never shipped which was just an extant Minecraft server installed on an ARM device.

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When I was young and impressionable I repeated some of his crazier assertions in public. I regret it to this day.

I'm impressed at his staying power in the public discourse about tech despite how incredibly wrong he has been.

What exactly is wrong with what he said?

The part on bitcoin is a trivial and common opinion; not newsworthy. The part on ripple is comically stupid. And then the fact that he himself is a con artist is too much.

Again, you're not really addressing what he said. You're just saying it's common opinion. Doesn't make it right or wrong.

(I'm talking specifically about the bitcoin part, don't care about the rest)

Because my opinion on that doesn't matter either. Not newsworthy.

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