It has been an open secret in the cryptography community that Hal Finney was the designer of BitCoin from the very start. Hal died in 2014. Or at least he was frozen in liquid nitrogen so not talking either way.

Besides being the first person to be involved in BTC who didn't hide behind a pseudonym, Hal published a paper that describes essentially the whole BitCoin scheme two years before BTC was launched. And Hal never once accused Satoshi of stealing his work.

The reason Hal had to hide behind Satoshi is simple: The Harber Stornetta patent didn't expire until about 9 months after BTC launched. That covers the notion of the hash chain. There is absolutely no way anyone working in the field did not know about that patent or its imminent expiry. Hal certainly did because I discussed it with him before BTC was launched.

So the big question is why BTC was launched when it was, why not wait 9 months to have free and clear title? Well, Hal got his terminal ALS diagnosis a few weeks prior: He was a man in a hurry.

Having launched prematurely, Hal had to wait six years after the original expiry of the patent term to avoid a lawsuit over the rights to BTC from Surety. He died before that happened.

Oh and I have absolutely no doubt Hal mined the genesis blocks straight into the bit bucket. The key fingerprint is probably the hash of some English language phrase.

The real inventor of BitCoin wrote a paper describing the architecture two years earlier under his own name, Hal Finney. He got a terminal diagnosis of ALS a few months before he launched the BitCoin service, the pseudonym being necessary at the time because of the Haber-Stornetta patent on the BlockChain.

No, Hal, did not keep the coins. He invented BitCoin because he was a crank with weird ideas about inflation, not to get rich. Mining the coins and keeping them would have been a betrayal of his principles.

The proof of this is given by the fact that Hal did not in fact get rich from BTC despite being the ''second' person to join the project. Nor did Hal ever complain that Satoshi took the credit for what was very clearly his work. If Hal had been just another person coming along, there would have been every reason to keep the cash.

And we do in fact know Hal ran mining servers from the start and that he ended up in serious financial trouble due to his ALS. The freezing his head thing came from donations.

Craig Wright does seem to be the last of the three early advocates alive but that doesn't make him Satoshi. Wright has never shown the slightest sign of being the sort of person who builds such a thing and in any case, Hal's name is on the much earlier paper.

Ah, yes, I forgot that the constitution has a clause in it directing people to steal classified information and then flee to hostile countries. It was so forward thinking of the founding fathers to include that part!

Do all of your heroes live in Russia?

If you believe that people in the USA shoplift because they can't pay rent or buy food, you are hopelessly confused and cannot possibly hope to have a productive discussion on this topic.

You equate discipline with abuse? Well there's your problem ...

Ok, I just went and googled it as you suggested, and the first stat I see is that "liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities" made up 39% of associates degrees, so you're clearly full of shit.

They're Bullshit degrees, which fits much better under art than it does under science.

I'm not sure where this silly idea comes from, that "nearly every other Western country" has tax agencies that send their citizens a pre-filled return. There are certainly some which do but, as far as I can tell, they seem to be the minority.

Jesus, Bill, don't you ever get tired of being wrong? Literally 10 seconds on Google could have sorted this one out for you.

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I feel the same way about TikTok videos.

You're right, its clearly worse than rape. Given the choice between being raped or spending 15 years in federal prison, you know that you'd bend over and bite the pillow without a second though.

It was worth trying. They were using a new type of concrete capable of surviving higher temps. It tested fine under lower thrust levels. The next step was to try it at full thrust and see if it would survive. If it worked, it would have saved them a ton of money in the long run. It didn't work, but nobody was hurt, and the resultant damage was well within their ability to handle, so what exactly is your problem? As for the "village", its a small smattering of buildings, most of which are owned by SpaceX. They attempted to buy out all of the residents exactly because of the " danger close" aspect of it, but some of the residents refused to sell, which is their right. Are you suggesting that SpaceX should have had the government seize the buildings using eminent domain laws?

Life isn't a zero sum game; only children and fools see it as such.

Why in the world would you need links for something so well known? It's like demanding a link to prove that Neal Armstrong said "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". Don't be a fucking idiot.