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My (non-provable) theory is that Satoshi is not a person but a team, now defunct, that was tasked with developing a crypto-currency. They are probably more scientists/mathematicians/economists than they are software developers, which would explain the very sound but not exactly elegant initial code. It would also explain the silence - the project is over, the team is probably bound to secrecy because this stuff is cl…
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Abusive people commit suicides as well.
Once you know it's a tactic you can't allow yourself to fall for it anymore or you'll end up trapped, regardless of what the final outcome is. However it's not right to go around guessing that someone like this guy is using that tactic and ignoring what could be a serious cry for help when you have no idea if he's an abusive person.
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The Goodbye at the end is worrying, but he simply needs to do one small action to prove his case and put an end to it all. It would take less than 5 minutes, which leaves the question, why drag it on like this?
> It would take less than 5 minutes I wouldn't keep the keys to US$ 500 million on my laptop's hard drive.
EDIT: this is presupposing he's not a con-artist, which is still my hypothesis
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First search for narcissist checklist got me https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-legacy-distorted-lo... If you toss out the ones about romantic relationships, Craig hits on most of them.
I'm in the Wright is a liar/con-artist camp but the items on that list apply to most "normal" people (including myself).
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> It would take less than 5 minutes I wouldn't keep the keys to US$ 500 million on my laptop's hard drive.
Side note, but I've thought about this and wondered the same thing. Where do you keep 500M? In your house on an offline hard disk that can be stolen? In a safe deposit box? This is a true data backup scenario where too few copies and you're in trouble and too many and you're in trouble. Especially since a copy that was found without your knowledge could ruin things before you knew.
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It's quite telling that you don't want me to speak for other people but just in your answer before projected your irrational feelings about bitcoin on me and on what I feel or don't feel for bitcoin (so that we get straight, I don't "feel" anything for a technology, that doesn't make sense). When I referred the world at large, I referred the world at large that already knows bitcoin, not the world population. And fro…
The most damning: Seven transaction a second. You cannot have a functioning financial system that is constrained to seven transactions per second.
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If someone gets scammed by a con-artist, would you blame the victim there too?
In this case yes, because they are influencers of the community and were not being responsible in ensuring the proof was rigorous enough
Yeah he made a mistake. But smart, even skeptical people get conned into making those kind of mistakes all the time. In the end, it's a lot of drama with no real harm done.
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I'm in the Wright is a liar/con-artist camp but the items on that list apply to most "normal" people (including myself).
Any psychologist will tell you that most people can't objectively evaluate such criteria for themselves. This is something that is best left to professionals who have experience with people that DEFINITELY have such disorders. I'm also in the non-believer camp, nor can I fathom why "Satoshi" would initially choose to remain anonymous but then decide to come out. What purpose does that serve? Whatever the case, all of…
Even the guy who chaired the DSM-IV thinks so: http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Normal-Out-Control-Medicalizati...
Modern psychiatry is 50% science 50% tarot cards if you ask me.