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>Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn’t have the keys used to sign this message. The Lightning Network is a significant achievement. However, we need to continue work on improving on-chain capacity. Unfortunately, the solution is not to just change a constant in the code or to allow powerful participants to force out others. We are all Satoshi.

here's the thing, even if szabo has massive bags of chainlink he's not going to shill it
it's totally different from bitcoin where the creator is shrouded in anonymity
there's not much we can meaningfully glean from him telling some barnacle to fuck off on twitter
clearly chainlink is heavily influenced by his ideas
of course he's going to be critical of them
listen to nick and naval talking to tim ferris
i don't think nick is a bad guy and i honestly feel like his twitter feed is pretty defensible
you can read about the experience his family had under communism
he doesn't take the things he writes about lightly, he takes the threats he perceives completely seriously
i don't know, i don't think these are bad qualities for the guy who influenced a defense-in-depth, open-source, smart contract, 'middleware', oracle network, that i happen to be heavily invested in to have...

>>13186843
I'm actually good friends with the two tranners in this picture. I share a discord server with them for the past 2 years lel
>>13186830
Thanks for the tip! Now >>13186842 doesn't stand a chance

>>13157119
>>13157130
The market is literally retarded
>long china
>short spy
excuse me?

>>13127669
>intellectual masterbation

>>13126246
Here's whatcha do kid
Buy SPTL
Buy calls on GLD
Buy calls on OIL till the end of June then switch to puts
Buy kneepads and work 80 hours a week

- a computer scientist
- lawyer
- cryptographer
- authored the concept and created the phrase 'smart contracts'
- is a digital p2p currency advocate way before bitcoin was born

In 1998, Szabo designed a mechanism for a decentralized digital currency he called "bit gold". Bit gold uses the proof of work consensus and the first ever to use the concept of 'mining to generate gold' to strengthen the blockchain.

In 2008, prior to the release of bitcoin, Szabo wrote a comment on his blog about the intent of creating a live version of his hypothetical currency.

It's 100% confirmed!