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> It's an ITALIAN serial conman...

Wow. I have been guilty of this very same blunder many times and I understand it's just a joke, but please realize that it is not pleasant to be on the wrong side of a joke for no reason.

I'll be more careful with my generalizations in the future. I am confident you will be, too.

Thanks.

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It's not a joke. I'm referring to a specific italian serial conman.

Satoshi is Italian? :)

How do you know he isn't ? :p

(If he was a conman, this kind of misdirection would be really in style !)

The biggest ones are American and Australian.

Craig Wright (Claims to have invented Bitcoin but cant prove it lol)

Richard Heart (Behind the Hex fraud crypto)

Neither of them are arbitrarily minting the currency that is involved in 70%+ of all crypto trades.

(70% may be off. It was correct as of 6 months ago.)

Following HN guidelines, I assumed they meant that Italy is aiding and abetting the effort. My low effort search yielded [1] immediately.

[1] - https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/10/05/italy-has-a-regis...

I don't - I'm referring to Giancarlo Devasini.

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