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Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

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Re: Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

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Post by roenxi »

The point of cryptocurrencies is that it doesn't matter how sketchy the founder is or how stupid there motives were. The ledger isn't under their control.

It isn't all that unexpected that the Monero founder is weird and has a colourful backstory. He'd have to be odd to found a project like Monero. It is darkly funny if he was then trying to leverage his leadership position to directly scam people though.

Re: Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

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Post by corbulo »

aww_dang wrote: post #5
darkwater wrote: post #3

Looks like we are going to see this kind of investigations "asking GPT-4" to confirm or not assumptions just like we had "after a quick search on Google" for a few lusters.

There's a new oracle in Delphi.

What does one gift as tribute to the Oracle at Silicon Valley?

Re: Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

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Post by aww_dang »

DoItToMe81 wrote: post #10
lang_agnostic wrote: post #9

This asking GPT for inference needs to stop immediately before it becomes accepted and commonplace. This is almost the same as "I flipped a coin and the gods spoke to me"

It's far worse, because people who should know better, people who should understand at least the very basics of how the underlying algorithm works, are deluding themselves into believing it's some kind of magical oracle.

It really isn't that far removed from the "anonymous sources" journalists cite or the slander levied on political undesirables at Wikipedia.

Re: Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

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Post by marginalia_nu »

lang_agnostic wrote: post #9

This asking GPT for inference needs to stop immediately before it becomes accepted and commonplace. This is almost the same as "I flipped a coin and the gods spoke to me"

Tangentially, I think there is essentially already the beginnings of a cult of AI, based around the promise of technological salvation from worldly toil with somewhat eschatological undertones.

Just waiting for "Show HN: Repent, sell your house and car, invest everything into eternal-salvation.ai before it's too late and you're left in the dust as we ascend to the stars!"

Re: Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

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Post by oboes »

ashwagary wrote: post #11

>Monero founder Is he a founder? My understanding was that he became a supporter of Monero years after it was created by someone else.

This was also my understanding. I think he became some kind of leader in the Monero community at some point, but he isn't the founder. I think Monero was originally forked from some other project (Bytecoin?).

Re: Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

roenxi wrote: post #12

The point of cryptocurrencies is that it doesn't matter how sketchy the founder is or how stupid there motives were. The ledger isn't under their control. It isn't all that unexpected that the Monero founder is weird and has a colourful backstory. He'd have to be odd to found a project like Monero. It is darkly funny if he was then trying to leverage his leadership position to directly scam people though.

He stole money. I don't find that very colorful or weird. It's criminal. Why should such a person be given a US visa? [0]

[0] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/09/22/riccardo-fluffy...

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