I'm polite because I don't see any point in being mad with y'all. I've always been polite because I'm not a troll, Wind_FURY correctly recognises what I am saying.
When people just dismiss it as nonsense, then there is nothing I can say - their mind is made up.
On arguments of censorship and decentralisation, we can't come to agreement because in the world of BTC these have become holy icons, pursued in and of themselves. Whereas if you look to Bitcoin you can see that they are not the goal they are means to an end (that being not having to trust a central authority). Ignoring the reasons behind is the cognitive bias of surrogation.
To be decentralised a system, simply needs to not have one central server. This has already been achieved with mining being a global operation carried out by big server farms in several different countries. You can trust the whole because you do not have to trust an individual.
If I assume correctly then the phrase censorship-resistant is being used to speak to the nature of it being extremely difficult to change the blockchain. This too has already been achieved.
Both of these pillars are supported by way of the enormous amount of capital at risk that miners have. They are profit seeking, driven to seek out other miners and collaborate wrt communications in order to maximise their profitability. A miner that doeas not do this is less profitable, a miner that tries to change the blockchain becomes a pariah they sacrifice future profitability because other miners will be less likely to trust them.
The convergence on the number of individual mining endpoints was spelled out in the white paper and has been borne out in the real world. Don't forget behind the mining endpoints of pools there are multiple miners, they too are subject to the same financial incentives detailed above, so in actual fact mining is way more decentralised than it might appear at first glance.
It seems to be the case as time moves on that the inevitability of CSW being Satoshi is causing the BTC die hards to move to a line of reasoning that it no longer matters what Satoshi said, and the the white paper is no longer important. Whats clear from this then, is you value the price of Bitcoin over its properties that allow it to be used as p2p digital cash. That you value your dislike of an individual over their argument. That you value your opinion over the truth of the matter.
To dismiss the relevance of the person that invented something implies you think they were wrong, I get the impression you certainly think CSW is wrong about a lot of things
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I think it's interesting that once you get to know him you can see exactly what is going on. You guys only get to see his public face, so I can understand why you might feel the way you do about him. I hope you are able to overcome this. You. might cite this as an appeal to authority, and given the broad disagreement over whether or not Craig is a fraud, you would be right to call that. However, should it be the case that he is not a fraud then it makes him the architect of Bitcoin, as such his words will carry weight. It also makes him the 'owner' of Bitcoin and affords him certain legal rights.
Given his proclivity for courtroom drama, don't you think he might be inclined to exercise those rights. Wouldn't like to be HODLing when that day comes
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