Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong

Post by CamperBob2 » Sat, Sep 14, 2024, 5:29 PM UTC

throw101010 wrote: post #28

pavlov wrote: post #12

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While the lawsuit was insane, it serves a good reminder that when Bitcoiners proudly proclaim that “governments have no power over them”, it’s not quite that simple in lots of ways. If the governments of the world really started to believe their fiscal powers or national currencies were threatened by crypto, they have an extensive repertoire of tools to shut it down.

You misunderstand the point people saying this make. They know governments can suppress their freedoms ultimately but since Bitcoin is an open and public system, the measures governments have to use to "kill" it force them to limit very fundamental freedoms (like freedom of speech to restrict the publishing of its source code, freedom to consume the energy citizens purchase and/or produce how they want, neutral acces…

Post by unyttigfjelltol » Sat, Sep 14, 2024, 5:38 PM UTC

Post by speerer » Sat, Sep 14, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

chabes wrote: post #22

pavlov wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While the lawsuit was insane, it serves a good reminder that when Bitcoiners proudly proclaim that “governments have no power over them”, it’s not quite that simple in lots of ways. If the governments of the world really started to believe their fiscal powers or national currencies were threatened by crypto, they have an extensive repertoire of tools to shut it down.

I disagree. This lawsuit was against a single individual. There is nothing here that is threatening to crypto as a whole. One thing that will make it harder to regulate as time goes on is that more people will be financially involved. From traditional finance getting involved through funds, to the masses getting involved, the ecosystem has grown far beyond the fringe, and will continue to do so with each successive h…

Post by esafak » Sat, Sep 14, 2024, 5:48 PM UTC

churchill wrote: post #20

move-on-by wrote: post #2

> …lawyers picked apart Wright’s claims that some of his computer documents had been typed before 2008, using evidence from font designers. The witnesses testified that some fonts “hadn’t even been created until years after the alleged date of the document”… https://craigwright.net/ Fascinating.

Fun fact: A Microsoft font also helped expose corruption by Pakistan's former PM, Nawaz Sharif [1]. Apparently, documents dated to 2006 were typed up using Calibri, a font that only went into public distribution around 2007. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15961354/pakistan-calibri...

Post by ChrisArchitect » Sat, Sep 14, 2024, 6:03 PM UTC