And speaking of libertarians, BITCOIN LOL
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2017 6:56 pm
In case you missed this last summer:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-oh ... shi-affair
The true story of "Satoshi Nakamoto", aka (at least partly) Craig Wright, as fed to a writer as the "official account". Wright looks like yet another shrieking autistic basement-dwelling libertarian to me. Same old story, same old obsessions.
"‘Dressed up in samurai clothes, with the odd wooden shoes and everything. Making all the noises. His sisters would complain about him embarrassing them: “We’re down the park, we’ve got friends down there, and he’s walking around with webbed feet.” He used to have this group of nerdy friends in the 1980s: they’d come around in horn-rimmed glasses and play Dungeons & Dragons for hours.’"
This is a long screed but to really figure out what he "believes", you have to also read some of the old Nakamoto "manifestos". They are comical. He now has an "Institute" dedicated to him:
http://nakamotoinstitute.org/
Wright is such a smart guy and yet he says and does such incredibly stupid things. And it's "such a shock" that the Australian Tax Office came after him. If he actually does own those 1 million Bitcoins that trace back to "Nakamoto", then he has screwed Australia out of taxes on something like $2.8 billion. People get 30 years in prison for doing that in the "real world".
Plus it always cracks me up that these autists who hate the evils of government power always end up setting up their own governments. Which gain power and do evil things (if they survive--the jury's still out on Bitcoin). Little nerdy manchildren squabble with the other manchildren and want to take their toys and go home. You try to tell them that human societies are ALWAYS like this, feudalism is the inevitable result because homo sapiens is an inherently feudal animal, and they refuse to believe you. "We can beat them! We can use the Internet!" No, you can't. Smarter people than you have tried and failed.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-oh ... shi-affair
The true story of "Satoshi Nakamoto", aka (at least partly) Craig Wright, as fed to a writer as the "official account". Wright looks like yet another shrieking autistic basement-dwelling libertarian to me. Same old story, same old obsessions.
"‘Dressed up in samurai clothes, with the odd wooden shoes and everything. Making all the noises. His sisters would complain about him embarrassing them: “We’re down the park, we’ve got friends down there, and he’s walking around with webbed feet.” He used to have this group of nerdy friends in the 1980s: they’d come around in horn-rimmed glasses and play Dungeons & Dragons for hours.’"
This is a long screed but to really figure out what he "believes", you have to also read some of the old Nakamoto "manifestos". They are comical. He now has an "Institute" dedicated to him:
http://nakamotoinstitute.org/
Wright is such a smart guy and yet he says and does such incredibly stupid things. And it's "such a shock" that the Australian Tax Office came after him. If he actually does own those 1 million Bitcoins that trace back to "Nakamoto", then he has screwed Australia out of taxes on something like $2.8 billion. People get 30 years in prison for doing that in the "real world".
Plus it always cracks me up that these autists who hate the evils of government power always end up setting up their own governments. Which gain power and do evil things (if they survive--the jury's still out on Bitcoin). Little nerdy manchildren squabble with the other manchildren and want to take their toys and go home. You try to tell them that human societies are ALWAYS like this, feudalism is the inevitable result because homo sapiens is an inherently feudal animal, and they refuse to believe you. "We can beat them! We can use the Internet!" No, you can't. Smarter people than you have tried and failed.
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