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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] eletes 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

He has also co-authored scores of academic papers on a diverse range of research fields, including cryptography, systems security, and data privacy, including the protection of human genomic data.

I want to dream that it was either foreign actor involvement or he cracked something big like a cryptocurrency

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Cryptocurrency is not big, it is a scam.

[–] captain_aggravated 38 points 2 months ago

scams can be big.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Also cryptography and cryptocurrency are not the same my dude

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

That’s not even the first guy who named both cryptocurrency and cryptography in the same comment, my guy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I think you misread my comment, I didn't mention cryptography, I only mentioned cryptocurrency.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Scam or not, the current market cap for crypto currencies is $US 2.67T https://coinmarketcap.com/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And it's been around for 17 years now so if it's a Ponzi scheme it's one of the most amazingly long-running ones ever.

People are free to dislike cryptocurrency and to not use it, but they should at least recognize that there are people who do use it and who do like it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Thank you for stating the obvious, please qoute me where I mention that people can't use or like it.