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Question: Are you Satoshi Nakamoto? (Semi-serious question, though more likely he was Hal Finney.) Regardless, do you think about the fact that you DID help inspire Bitcoin? (by inventing peer-to-peer file sharing, which inspired BitTorrent, which inspired the name and part of the mechanism of Bitcoin).
Asked by Michael Dean (65.131.88.x) on February 13 2019, 7:07pm
Reply on February 14 2019, 1:46am:

I am definitely not SN. I'm not sure if that chain of causality exists, but to the extent that it does, sorry to the planet!

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Posted by Michael Dean (98.127.53.x) on February 14 2019, 6:34am:
lol. Can't tell if kidding. Are you talking about amount of electricity used to mine? Do you think cryptos are a bad idea? And do you not think you inspired BitTorrent? (I'll look up the BitTorrent to Bitcoin part if you want.)

Posted by Justin on February 14 2019, 4:21pm:
Yeah IMO bitcoin is a drag.

Posted by Michael Dean (98.127.53.x) on February 14 2019, 10:29pm:
I surmised that BTC was inspired by BT, but later read it." Nakamoto cited BitTorrent as an example of a peer-to-peer network that could give a digital currency monetary value. “For transferable proof of work tokens to have value, they must have monetary value. To have monetary value, they must be transferred within a very large network – for example a file trading network akin to bittorrent…" here: dailyhodl.com/2018/08/01/bitcoins-.......
Posted by Michael Dean (98.127.53.x) on February 14 2019, 10:29pm:
and here: satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emai... So yeah, it's partially your fault. lol
Posted by Michael Dean (98.127.53.x) on February 14 2019, 10:35pm:
FYI, regarding power use, I think anything people enjoy using is useful. Using Reaper, or much higher usage, playing video games. But FYI, there are "green" proof-of-HODL coins (POS lol, proof-of-stake) that don't use much electricity. And today I found out that the creator of BitTorrent invented a proof-of-storj coin, it was hyped for a min, but isn't even in top 1500 now and website is 404. techcrunch.com/2017/11/08/chia-net...There are other proof-of-storage coins too that...
Posted by Michael Dean (98.127.53.x) on February 14 2019, 10:35pm:
....that didn't die.
Posted by Justin on February 15 2019, 12:22am:
Meh

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