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Roger Ver for a long period of time believed Craig Wright was Satoshi Nakamoto. (Together with Jihan and Craig, Ver ignited the blocksize wars advocating for an increased block size in an attempt to attack Bitcoin Core whilst being convinced a larger block size would eventually make Bitcoin a digital peer-to-peer cash).

It was only until Roger found out that Craig Wright (a.k.a. "Faketoshi") didn't know an extended pub key address contains its own checksum that Ver understood Craig couldn't possibly be Satoshi, the writer of the whitepaper and inventor of Bitcoin.

Source: Youtube - Interview with Vlad, S15 E26 Roger Ver on the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast to discuss the Hijacking Bitcoin Book

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221 sats \ 2 replies \ @nerd2ninja 11 Aug

k00b, I need to correct you. I did not say Bisq's system was decentralized. I literally said

Don't call this decentralized. Someone has to push the button to tell the computer what the outcome was.

and what I was proposing was that people might enjoy this custodial system which we have called collaborative custody when talking about something like unchained capital for example. You know they would call this collaborative custody and we should too.

So I'm a little offended now that I'm being misrepresented as if I said this was a way to do a decentralized thing which I spent two multi-comma sentences saying that it wasn't. People taking these systems to unreasonable extremes with lies as marketing material is why I and others often have to condemn them altogether. Don't be the reason I have to condemn this structure.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 11 Aug

I’m sorry. I didn’t conclude that from what you said. It was my own misunderstanding about how it worked. For some reason I was under the impression it was federated.

121 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 11 Aug

I distinguish between federated things and decentralized things. Fedi-mint for example has always claimed to be federated, not decentralized. In the US there is a federated government (federal government).

I make the distinction because in the general understanding of the word decentralized, people believe decentralized things mean that they are self sovereign and unruggable. Any mastadon (or other fediverse) user can tell you that they aren't unruggable.

Bisq does unfortunately clearly outline that they are federated (without using the correct word) and incorrectly call that decentralized, so in that sense maybe I shouldn't have used Bisq as the example. Their documentation on dispute resolution is pretty good, but they just use the wrong word to describe a few things.

52 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 11 Aug

Mutiny shutting down was a pretty tough pill to swallow tbh.

52 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 10 Aug

Like the marathoner I am, I’m just trying to stay consistent

113 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 10 Aug

Wow @OneOneSeven. Hey big spender!

How did I outstack @Undisciplined?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 10 Aug

It's a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 10 Aug

Lately, I have been trying different ways to comment. I feel timing on comments is everything. Its a shame that I miss a lot of comments when I sleep during the day!

157 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 10 Aug

I thought I was spending too much

Never mind

71 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 10 Aug

Just taking advantage of the bitcoin fire sale and the territory discount for ~charts_and_numbers.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 10 Aug

Some of my spending is financed by k00b. k00b sends me 20k sats a week to pay for the meme monday and fun fact friday bounties.

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 11 Aug

Thanks for the newsletter.

Mutiny's shutting down has come as a huge surprise and it'll leave a little void in tbe lightning spce for some time.

The post by @Natalia is the one that should be on top. So much knowledge there.

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 11 Aug

Congratulations to all top Stackers. I like the post Nomad Hacks - How to Cross Borders with your Bitcoin ✈️ by @Natalia And also like AMA -🐝 We're Alby - your Bitcoin & Nostr companion on the web. AMA. By @Alby

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheOrangeMart 11 Aug

https://m.stacker.news/45062

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 10 Aug

I'm here again, I can't believe it. Thank you!!!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @77edb424fc 11 Aug outlawed

stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.

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