I’m glad you enjoyed that; it was meant to be a joke, but its also true. It wasn’t even considered money by anyone then so stealing it was not technically illegal. And its past the statute of limtations both civil and criminal. So I will be honest with you. I also use like 8 different identites to publish code, and this is just one of my persona. (Some people play a 16/f/ca on the internet, I play 10 people and sometimes more; some more ephemeral than others. And my operating system is designed to segregate my identities so I don’t make mistakes I used to make in uni. The reason is I contribute to projects like Tor and I don’t want to be fucked with even more by dead eyed intelligence officer sociopaths; I fucking hate those people. When people suggest I did something like hack them, its like dude, If I wanted to be a dickhead and hack people and waste my skill (or really a curse) on fucking with people I would be wearing a suite and working for intelligence.

But I rather try to use my curse to try to make positive changes, like while in Uruguay help them secure their infrastructure so my government couldn’t spy on them so easily.

I actually got into Bitcoin to fuck with libertarians before it was considered money; it was super early. Satoshi was still posting, and he even predicted libertarians would be the first people interested, and I had the same conclusion. So I wanted to demonstrate what perfect libertarian free market looks like: me taking your wallet and you can’t stop me. And it turns out, thats the best business model. And so I did things like that, lets say, until it was considered illegal.

It was funny watching them slowly realize why the federal reserve exists, and all the regulations they hate, like why they came to exist.

But unfortunately, my theory of pain causing them to learn, like a shock collar on a dog, it didn’t really work the people just kept their stupid ideologies.

After a while of that they were begging for regulations and governments to recognize what they were doing; unfortunately I think its very rare for people to learn lessons.

Was a waste of my time; but I was bored in Uni; I was a transfer student and I’m awkward and socially anxious so I only had a few friends and since I studied Genetics instead of computer science because I was programming in C by the start of middle school and tested out of a technology magnet school 2 years early because it was bullshit and couldn’t teach me anything. Just seemed to make more sense to study genetics, because I was never all that talented in biology.

I kinda regret this now, but I even contributed code to Bitcoin, especially early on, and inspired probably the piece that will essentially make it impossible to dismantle ever (sorry about that).

But because I worked on Bitcoin, my critique of it is far more nuanced and complex than anything I ever heard on a leftist podcast. I have more legitimate reasons to hate it, and I think the reasons often given don’t actually make sense if you really analyze them. I don’t want to get into specifics because I don’t want to launch a massive debate.

But communist could learn something from Bitcoin, they were able to create a circular economy and take a good portion of drug market, which is the way for example FARC funded their war.

Though what really fucking annoys me is all this blockchain talk, like its a good or cool invention. Its so fucking stupid; and shows they know so fucking little about the technology. If the blockchain were soo important than it would have been fucking blockcoin.

It was Bitcoin because the use of the Merkle Tree which is a fucking amazing invention, its what enabled Torrents. The Bit in Bitcoin is a nod to the Bit in BitTorrent. And unlike a blockchain which has almost 1 use case that is super fucking conditional that almost nothing actually needs one.

The technology that is the magic of fucking Bitcoin is asymmetric encryption. Full stop, its 99% that. That is without question the magic sauce, and it has so many fucking applications its absurd but tons of money gets dumped into stupid blockchain projects and real open source projects that like the internet relies on barely gets looked at.

Anyone who talks about blockchains outside of THE bitcoin blockchain has no fucking clue what they are talking about. But these idiots buy cryptocurrency and think they are cryptologists. Like Ive been to quantum cryptography conferences, and other cryptography conferences and I wouldn’t have the confidence these idiots do after buying a little crypto.

I also sold art for Bitcoin very early on, because I hated paypal and I didn’t want to setup VISA/Mastercard payment gateway. So it was a cool alternative.

Like arguably I said too much and will probably delete this post later, but there is so much more I literally just can’t say; but Ill say this, I tried my best to fuck over bankers, and defend open source hackers who cared about the essence of the idea; which I get.

But I can rattle off a list of problems with it that no one else talks about, and even pitch a solution that solves most of them. I just dont have time or resources to do it. I talked to Satoshi, he was an interesitng person. Did weird things to try to hide his English style.

But he made a list of goals, it was a very clear list. And every single one of them have failed. The project even by Satoshis standards is a failure. It was an experiment that failed and then capitalists using the liquidity of the aribtration of law (drug markets, etc) to speculate on.