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Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Todd’s urgent dismissal of the documentary reads to Hoback like an attempt to throw Satoshi-hunters off the scent. “It doesn’t surprise me at all that Peter would go on the offense. He’s a master of game theory—it’s what he does. He has spent a lot of years now muddying the waters,” says Hoback. “He’s an unbelievable genius.”

I haven't seen the docu, but I did like his (Hoback's) docu about Qanon, Q: Into the Storm.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If countries are considering adopting this in their treasuries or making it legal tender, the idea that there's potentially this anonymous figure out there who controls one-twentieth of the total supply of digital gold is pretty important.”

Governments in their current form don't like legal tender they can't inflate at will. Never going to happen. People have been saying this for 14 years now. It's done, guys. Bitcoin has saturated the world as much as it ever will. It will now adopt the "Linux Desktop" status, being a small minority among every other electronic form of payment.

[–] pandapoo 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Bitcoin was never meant to be legal tender, and it still isn't.

The fact that it's now a regulated commodity is pretty antithetical to its original purpose, but still, it doesn't make it legal tender.

But setting all that aside, you're right, monetary controls are pretty important tools of a nation state... And your alternative is what? A digital gold standard based on Bitcoin....?

That idea is so idiotic, that I can't even start to write out the problems with it, because I wouldn't stop.