Oh look, yet another person being disappeared by the government again.
That's real neat!
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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
Cryptocurrency is not big, it is a scam.
scams can be big.
Also cryptography and cryptocurrency are not the same my dude
I think you misread my comment, I didn't mention cryptography, I only mentioned cryptocurrency.
That’s not even the first guy who named both cryptocurrency and cryptography in the same comment, my guy
Scam or not, the current market cap for crypto currencies is $US 2.67T https://coinmarketcap.com/
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.
Thank you for stating the obvious, please qoute me where I mention that people can't use or like it.
We now have the next ball for 1984 Newspeak bingo. The ball is "unperson."
The previous balls were doublethink and memory hole. Let us know when you get bingo.
Note: Anyone who yells "bingo" has revealed that they know a suspicious amount about subversive activities and should be reported to the authorities immediately.
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I believe it's the ministry of truth (oldspeak). Minitrue for those who are rightthinkfull
Scrubbing his profiles is highly weird. I wonder if this has anything to do with shadow libraries.