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no, not at all. read the very first posts he made, where he predicted world wide use. he was absolutely aware of the possibility.

Can this be real? a guy calls the cops, but admits he was involved?

"Tacitly acknowledging his role in the Bitcoin project, he looks down, staring at the pavement and categorically refuses to answer questions."

"I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it," he says, dismissing all further queries with a swat of his left hand. "It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection."

worst reporting I've seen. it implies this person has admitted working on bitcoin. actually that's not even true, if you read the words.

why on earth all this work, just to chose a real name? this does not make any sense. as if SN could not haven chosen a name to deflect his identity.

HN - wtf? censoring this is pretty nutty.

Seems very implausible indeed. The following passage is key: I am no longer involved in "that", probably means computer security not bitcoin.

"I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it," he says, dismissing all further queries with a swat of his left hand. "It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection."

Why would SN admit to it - risking his safety? And he invented bitcoin so that he can order model trains? give me a break.

25% < 50%

there's plenty of solutions which apply to bitcoin as well.

5) they were stolen

this is so absurd. Musk chose the most difficult industries, and both SpaceX and Telsa were 5 minutes away from bankruptcy in 2008. and yet he is "rent-seeker". if that where the case he would have gone for traditional corrupt industries, such as big oil.

definition of ponzi scheme please?

why the upvotes? but I'm sure the author is an expert in Elliptic Curve Cryptography and understands the subtleties of hierarchical deterministic wallets.

yes notaries + alternative DNS. problem is really the root (literally). its the same thing: somebody running a server and making decisions based on profit/power what goes into that server. I mean you choose whether you go to GoDaddy or Comodo, but that's about it. with .com you don't even have a choice but verisign. DNSsec add insult to injury, by making domain regs the CA's. and this 'proposal' is really the height of absurdity. AT&T shouldn't be writing the trust protocols.

wow. how misleading was that...

SSL is such crap. time to make a better internet.

well of course. Vi was specifically written by Bill Joy to optimize for every character, see

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/11/bill_joys_greatest_g...

And there is no reason we could ever improve on that 35 years later. we need those optimizations...

"It took a long time. It was really hard to do because you've got to remember that I was trying to make it usable over a 300 baud modem. That's also the reason you have all these funny commands. It just barely worked to use a screen editor over a modem. It was just barely fast enough. A 1200 baud modem was an upgrade. 1200 baud now is pretty slow.

9600 baud is faster than you can read. 1200 baud is way slower. So the editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore. "

666 github stars for the repo :)

great post. are you working this?

wrong. bitcoin has a smart contract system in it. its not just a unit of account. ripple is about as good as eGold. actually Watts had tremendous foresight when he says here: " And one of the reasons that our technology is impeded and prevented from feeding the world properly is the failure of one of our networks. It's an information network and it's called money" here we are, and now money is a network.

get some ethics? making jokes about drone killings is disgusting.

well, I guess you're an US citizen. so you will not understand, because you're living in a bubble. and your derogative answer just shows what a person you are. perhaps I'm in Yemen and my friend was killed in a drone. how can you dare making such comments?

if you are an ignorant, unethical person in the US maybe, but not if you live in Yemen or Pakistan. its such a perfect illustration of how blind people can be.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-drone-strikes-stirrin...

might be a good project, but with that type of name, you're not going to attract customers outside the US, a good fraction of which will think drone => drone strike. the name is reserved for killer machines, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drone_strikes_in_Pakist.... Time to think about how silicon valley fits in with the rest of the world.

cool, this guy is doing some good work.

see also mongrel2, a language agnostic webserver https://github.com/zedshaw/mongrel2

repo: https://github.com/apache/libcloud

cool. how does this relate to packer & vagrant? this is basically the trend to an abstract machine interface. so you can boot an image at several place and you want notice. this will matter in terms of price and consumer power.

no. it should be a market place, not a mono-poly.

many thanks for the work. with so much things on github some distribution is good. it would nice to make this into a packer image and be able to boot it up on AWS on a click (better than heroku).

the other one is: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq

"We accuse US, British and German secret agents, their supervisors, the German Minister of the Interior as well as the German Chancelor of illegal and prohibited covert intelligence activities, of aiding and abetting of those activities, of violation of the right to privacy and obstruction of justice in office by bearing and cooperating with the electronic surveillance of German citizens by NSA and GCHQ."

democracy now is a great channel. they covered it briefly. they had Glenn Greenwald and Julian Assange many times in the past.

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/28/headlines#1288

well, I have about as much respect for them as people in the arms trade, oil or mercenary business. fact of the matter is they designed a program to target journalists. so they are actively building a distopian future. can you imagine where this goes in 10-20 years? the Western world is pretty much galloping to non democracy. how about building tools which improve democracy instead of destroying it? Peter Thiel, the libertarian. honestly all of these trends are really very troubling. I've worked in AI research, and is the top researcher in the field building? killer robots. brilliant.