20 sats \ 5 replies \ @zodthebarbarian 6 Jul 2023 \ on: The Mysterious Life And Death Of Mircea Popescu bitcoin
Where are La Serinissima now? Is there any remnants of this group still existing? If not, what happened, is the group just mostly dormant now? The IRC group is probably still around, no?
write
preview
20 sats \ 4 replies \ @zodthebarbarian 6 Jul 2023
I came across this thread of ppl reflecting on his vibe regarding blocksize increases and not pissing off the MP group https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5dth6w/who_is_mircea/
Also what ever happened with WoT? Do ppl still do that? Who is it popular with?
reply
41 sats \ 1 reply \ @cointastical 7 Jul 2023
It's [all but] dead, Jim.
https://bitcoin-otc.com/trust.php https://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratings.php (give it time to load)
There are incredible stories about nearly every name in that list, at least in the first/top 100.
Necrodaria, built witcoin which preceded SN by a decade, same vision.
Magicaltux (mtgox), mrb_ fastest GPU rig in the world, at the time, davux (bull Bitcoin), Was such a different time for Bitcoin.
reply
41 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 7 Jul 2023
Bull Bitcoin founder's nym might have been davout, not davux. I forget.
Memory lane ...
Kiba ... Casacsius, Mndrix (coinpal , buy with PayPal) Diablo d3 (miner software) Genjix (the dude that went on to fight in Syria)
So much history.
reply
0 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 6 Jul 2023
I don't have the answers to your questions, but the reddit group you found is very interesting. Thanks
reply
41 sats \ 0 replies \ @zodthebarbarian 7 Jul 2023
Here's another enjoyable thread where he seems to be saying he owns 5% of all bitcoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=350103.0
Also not that relevant but i did find a more professional piece of his writing worth it https://nakamotoinstitute.org/gpg-contracts/ " And it doesn’t stop here. I have always thought the principal utility of Bitcoin is that it renders any sort of mandatory taxation model unviable. I am firmly persuaded that as Bitcoin takes hold taxes will have to return to what they were in ancient Greece : willing donations to the state treasury, and something people openly took pride in. This shift will bring about all the improvements we were vainly trying to achieve in the old money paradigm, such as public accountability and reasonable expenditure in one fell swoop : good luck getting people to donate to the police department if they don’t like the police. And good luck with the welfare programs, for sure."
reply