https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/nassim-nicholas-taleb-is-a-fraud-5408004
MAN DOWN, MAN DOWN! REPEAT! MAN DOWN!
We just lost a good, bright, intelligent man to the Cult of Craig. Check the speakers of the Flat Earthers’ Conference of Bitcoin. If you know, you know.
I cannot accord Taleb that excuse. The only potential explanations are stupidity, or malicious dishonesty—and I do
not accuse Taleb of being stupid. It is wildly implausible to suggest that Taleb, who makes some pretense of being a philosophical thinker with ethical responsibility, just didn’t realize that he was boosting a fraud.
It is on similar, albeit not identical grounds that I call Gavin Andresen a willful, malicious liar: The only alternative would be to accuse a former leading Bitcoin developer of gross ignorance about how digital signatures work.
This is a famous quote from one of Naseem Nicholas Taleb’s books. Hahaha.
To be honest, I’m actually very very curious about the topic of his talk, and what he has to say. Will the conference be streamed for free?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLOeBSaq-PsThanks to bitmover.
Haters proof best this is the thing
As usual, the promoter of a fraud flips the truth on its head. The hatred and lies of Craig Wright, Nassim Taleb, Calvin Ayre,
et al. against
Bitcoin are proof that
Bitcoin is a noble and powerful thing.
Whereas I myself totally ignored Craig Wright from 2015–2020. In and of himself, he is beneath my attention threshold; and I did not want to feed a dumb troll. I only deigned even to mention his name, after
Gregory Maxwell made an incisive argument that we should stop ignoring him.
On the other hand, a big part of the reason that he's caused so much disruption (and he truly has)-- is because so many bitcoiners took one look at him, saw how transparently fake he was, and decided it was best to ignore him. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. And that is what has happened here--
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If someone broke into your house and was stealing stuff-- you wouldn't just say 'that thief doesn't deserve our attention' and ignore them. We shouldn't hesitate to defend Bitcoin and the community surrounding it.
Shows that Bitcoin works as designed, copyright, gov, Satoshi compliant. Stable as TCP IP, one of the biggest protocols adopted ever, cause low risk to really use and not speculate with?
No surprise that you are as ignorant of TCP/IP as about all else. Much as
Bitcoin Core (
onion) does with
Bitcoin,
the IETF and its antecedents have been revising and extending the
TCP/
IP protocol stack for more than four decades. As Bitcoin Core does with Bitcoin, the IETF strives to keep TCP/IP changes backwards-compatible; in Bitcoin terms, they are “softfork” changes. And much as with Bitcoin, TCP/IP can be improved by “non-consensus” improvements such as new TCP congestion control algorithms.
Actually, “stable as
TCP/
IP” is an excellent analogy for
Bitcoin! Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.