The wave of AI-assisted attacks made me think back to @aantonop's Bitcoin is a Sewer Rat analogy
Being out on the open internet and constantly exposed to financially motivated attackers, it is inevitable that Bitcoin and its ecosystem will get targeted early and get hit hard
In his 2011 emails, @adam3us apparently:
- Didn't know Script exists
- Didn't know about the H in P2PKH
- Thought the only way to destroy BTC is forking the chain to rewrite history
- Suggested a miner-dictated randomness beacon that doesn't leverage blockhashes
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TIL about @adam3us's 2011 emails to the [email protected] ML (from the HBO documentary)
This initially seemed to support the Adam-is-Satoshi theory, however digging through these emails I actually ended up finding evidence to the contrary (5 of them):
Many scumbags openly admitted they were trying to cyberbully @glozow to make her life as miserable as possible, so that she would ragequit bitcoin. Unfortunately, those people were rewarded today for their efforts, as she did quit.
It sets such a terrible precedent... now these