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Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by natch »

oh_sigh wrote: post #52
natch wrote: post #34

To the person running this, if you really want to remain anonymous, be careful not to write too much. You can be outed by textual stylometrics.

That's only assuming that they have a corpus of other writing out there on the internet which is linkable to their real life identity.

That would help for sure, but it need not be assumed. There are other collections of text besides the public internet. Some of which are only accessible by certain entities and certain of their employees, to be sure, but still extant. Email, for example.

Note I’m not implying the person has done anything wrong... on the contrary. But someone with a large quantity of BTC has reasons to be wary of rogue actors.

Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by Frogolocalypse »

joshumax wrote: post #56
natch wrote: post #34

To the person running this, if you really want to remain anonymous, be careful not to write too much. You can be outed by textual stylometrics.

That's always why I have a good laugh when someone comes out claiming to be Satoshi when they end their sentences with only a single space after a period. If you wanted to come out as Bitcoin's creator, you'd have used 2 spaces...

I think that just shows the age of the person. I learned how to type correctly on a typewriter, and that is the way that we learned. It means, for me, that SN, like me, was educated in the 70's and 80's, and formally learned how to type.

Disclosure : Am not satoshi.

Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by bevan »

Dear Rich Pineapple:

Congrats on your huge BTC surplus!

To make the biggest difference, consider looking into Effective Altruism[1] (an idea, not a charity) if you haven't already. Their motto is “using reason and evidence to do the most good”.

Perhaps do away with the charity proposal form, and instead choose one or several of the most effective charities as ranked by GiveWell.org[2] (who do rigorous effectiveness analysis). OpenPhilanthropy[3] is a charity that takes the EA perspective.

Unfortunately, seemingly worthy charities are often orders of magnitude less effective than the few most effective causes. Charity evaluators like GiveWell help us find the gems that can leverage our money many times more effectively.

For more info about Effective Altruism, listen to Tim Ferriss[4] and Sam Harris[5] interview the co-founder of Effective Altruism, check out this NYT piece[6], or read Doing Good Better[7].

[1] https://www.effectivealtruism.org/

[2] https://www.givewell.org/

[3] https://www.openphilanthropy.org/

[4] http://tim.blog/2015/11/22/will-macaskill/

[5] https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/being-good-and-doing-...

[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/upshot/effective-altruism...

[7] https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Good-Better-Effective-Altruism/...

Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by Frogolocalypse »

harryh wrote: post #30
drcross wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This meme needs to die. Keeping the lights on tens of thousands of banks and keeping hundred of thousands of servers running transaction processing cost a lot of electricity too. Efforts are underway to get rid of dirty energy because the costs of renewable and battery storage are so much cheaper that this is a non-issue.

Efforts are underway to get rid of dirty energy because the costs of renewable and battery storage are so much cheaper that this is a non-issue. Um what? Certainly we have made great progress as a civilization switching to cleaner forms of energy production but calling greenhouse pollution a "non issue" at this point is pretty nuts!

Install clean energy sources then. Charge for it, I don't care. Don't blame bitcoin because of cheap energy.

Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by Frogolocalypse »

spookthesunset wrote: post #46
drcross wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This meme needs to die. Keeping the lights on tens of thousands of banks and keeping hundred of thousands of servers running transaction processing cost a lot of electricity too. Efforts are underway to get rid of dirty energy because the costs of renewable and battery storage are so much cheaper that this is a non-issue.

Give me a fucking break. The "traditional financial world" processes tens if not hundreds of thousands of transactions per second worldwide. Bitcoin processes no more than 4 per second. On a per-transaction basis, you could be insane to argue that Bitcoin is anything other than an environmental disaster. Worse, Bitcoin's energy consumption scales based on the price of bitcoin, not on transaction volume. The more USD…

Supply and demand. If you want mining to reduce emissions, increase the cost of energy. Bitcoin will remain unaffected. Don't blame bitcoin because of the cost of energy. Blame the energy producers for selling it to miners at that price.

Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by koolba »

natch wrote: post #34

To the person running this, if you really want to remain anonymous, be careful not to write too much. You can be outed by textual stylometrics.

I’be been waiting for someone to do a cross analysis of HN comments to identify potential sock puppets.

Re: Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

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Post by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA »

Frogolocalypse wrote: post #62
joshumax wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's always why I have a good laugh when someone comes out claiming to be Satoshi when they end their sentences with only a single space after a period. If you wanted to come out as Bitcoin's creator, you'd have used 2 spaces...

I think that just shows the age of the person. I learned how to type correctly on a typewriter, and that is the way that we learned. It means, for me, that SN, like me, was educated in the 70's and 80's, and formally learned how to type. Disclosure : Am not satoshi.

Counting spaces... story checks out.
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