The story references an interesting discussion thread at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5598033No "assault rifle/heroin" fluff there, but still not without mischief, for example:
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how i can see name of user who committed this?
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unfletch 1 day ago | link
The name is always "Ian Hickson". He's the only committer on the HTML5 SVN repo:
$ svn log -q | egrep "^r\d+" | cut -d "|" -f 2 | sort | uniq -c
7850 ianh
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bpierre 1 day ago | link
In the commit-watchers mailing list:
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/commit-watchers-whatwg.org...
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eric_bullington 1 day ago | link
Looks like Mike Hearn, googler and core Bitcoin developer.
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One poster there notes that
BTC is not a currency, according to ISO 4217 currency code designations. I hope someone here is working on changing that, subject to the law of unintended consequences of course.
Apparently not all currency codes are from nation states, not all nation states have currency codes, and the US$ somehow gets three codes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217