22 sats \ 0 replies \ @phaedrus 5 Feb 2022
Someone should tell him about SN
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @0260378aef 6 Feb 2022
Whilst he may not be wrong, this is an example of the kind of thinking so common against elites which I personally hate. Free speech matters, a lot, it's the bedrock of our civil society and it's being destroyed by these elites misusing the power that the current internet gives them.
Nothing wrong with measures to stop Sybil attacks, but a "check" program is not a distributed system or cryptography construct, he's talking about registered identities - which is anathema to Bitcoin - and vetting who can talk.
('I don't want bots' might seem innocuous but it just isn't that simple.)
Saylor has never impressed me because he's way too full of himself, and too certain of himself. He seems to have little respect for the privacy and rights of individuals, which is really at the heart of Bitcoin's origins (see: Wikileaks payments, the first use case. Would he support that? Fat chance).
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @relc 6 Feb 2022
reusable prove of work
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @CypherPoet 5 Feb 2022
FWIW, @wiz's https://twitter.com/BitcoinerOrShit was created around a similar idea -- and its algorithm was later incorporated into https://hive.one/.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 6 Feb 2022
Related:
HN: YouTube crypto giveaway scams are out of control
#8210
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29952915
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @BitcoinPhishing 6 Feb 2022 freebie
This is what is the problem troubling Michael Saylor, Cathie Wood, Charles Hoskinson, Vitalik Buterin, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, CZ, Elon Musk, and a dozen or so other influencers:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=saylor&sp=CAISBBABQAE%253D - Archive
Nearly every one of those is from a scammer's Youtube account using a name that impersonates Saylor's company, and uses his image. Youtube could easily change the algo / machine learning / whatever to exclude this crap. Youtube seems to want it to happen (based on the amount of these that show up in the "Live" (scroll down, along the right side, to see that of which I'm referring).
Twitter has the same mentality (of either not giving a shit, or purposely not doing much of anything to prevent it from occurring). Nearly every Tweet by these influencers results in replies from Twitter accounts impersonating the influencer. (See the @Cameron Tweet above, replied to a scammer impersonating @Tyler).