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He knew he'd be targeted (and he was), legal or not. It's probably why whoever wrote Bitcoin used a nom de chiffere.

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/timeline/

I've been hearing about imminent death of Bitcoin and the pointlessness of blockchain since 2010. I predict that won't change in the future.

> I wouldn't want to attach my name to anything that I know will have major consequences for me personally.

It's a good thing for all of us that Phil Zimmermann didn't feel that way.

The Executive Branch deflecting from the Executive Branch.

Please don't let this company start with T.

This is great to hear. I had an HP Touchpad and loved it.

What you say is completely true and I agree.

So who's going to shut a blockchain down? I don't see it happening.

Agreed. I think the geekery behind the project (Jiminez and Co) have their hearts in the right place and the govt sees a chance to profit.

Fingers crossed.

When PGP was released in the early 90s, one of the arguments used against it was "child porn". When P2P networks using DHT became viable earlier in this century, one of the arguments used against the networks was "child porn".

The tech still remains and still functions, arguments or not.

Adding -site:pinterest.* to the search works too.

Cryptocurrencies are predicated on networks. So is cash, wrt meatspace networks of humans. Cash is only worth anything because we can transact with it in the meatspace. Cryptocurrencies are worthless for use in the meatspace, just as physical cash is worthless on the network.

The intrinsic value of a cryptocurrency is in its utility: moving an accounted and measurable unit across the internet peer to peer.

"Buggy whip consortium worried about internal combustion engine"

"Although we can be fairly sure that blockchain will not unseat TCP-IP..."

Do court intellectuals lack clue by nature or does their position as court intellectuals impose their lack of clue?

Background:

"Quantum money is a proposed design of bank notes making them impossible to forge, by using quantum physics. The idea influenced the development of quantum key distribution protocols used in quantum cryptography.

The idea was put forward in about 1970 by Stephen Wiesner, a graduate student at Columbia University, though it was rejected by a number of scientific journals, meaning that it remained unpublished until 1983."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_money

Very cool presentation. Perhaps change "I got deep knowledge" to "I have deep knowledge"?

Good luck finding a gig!

Alibaba disagrees. Amazon should take a look.

https://medium.com/@alitech_2017/blockchain-based-qa-the-end...

Ironically, Alibaba is trying to fix counterfeits in the supply chain. Amazon should follow suit.

https://medium.com/@alitech_2017/blockchain-based-qa-the-end...

This is an ambitious venture. I'm curious to see the results. Good luck during the rollout!

Signal is also an excellent p2p e2e encrypted file sharing service.