Board lost more with him leaving than if 99% of the rest bailed.
Gone right off you sir. Thats an outrageous observation, and quite insulting to many here. No need for anyone to be offended. I am talking in technical knowledge to this specific arena. I said clearly I include myself in the 99%. If you believe more than 1 in 100 here can offer more technical insight and assistance in explaining to the non technical here then you simply have a different view to myself. I have no idea if you are a skill cryptographer/coder/conceptual designer so you may find other areas of assistance more useful. That is my pov only.
I have made several quite good friends here and would not like them to think i was saying I couldn't care less if they left. I'm sure they did not take it that way and understood I meant.
I was simply saying if you want to ask for example about a new design. Let's say xby (not that I am advocating investing there since I have not been able to get anyone capable to explain to me if it is a useful design or not yet) who else can you ask for an analysis, who else will lay out the positives and negatives for people to read in more laymans terms? he was one of the only persons that seemed to take his time and review them for free for everyone to read.
I am not kissing up to him at all I am simply saying that in my observations and to the best of my abilities I thought when he got into debates in the past with people of proven technical ability (through their work produced) he held his own and even at times found flaws in their designs. I also notice many proven top developers took notice of his opinions and asked for his advice. That to me is enough to see that those here who are now suggesting he wanted to seem smart are wrong and that he actually was/is very smart.
Simple as that. No ass kissing, not hating. Just the observations I made of events that have taken place.
Smart people do not need to shove shed loads of repeated text down peoples throats.
Smart people do not choose to suffer for many years, from a very treatable condition.
Smart people dont feel the need to belittle people with very ordinary differing opinions.
Smart people dont make claims to have something Bitcoin-killer-better, when they cannot show anything to substantiate.
Smart people understand the importance of bringing others along with you, on a project.
Smart people stay away from the distractions of this forum, when theres other things to get on with!
Smart 50+ year olds first learnt the above, when they were in their 20's.
I could go on......
There is no doubt something in what you say although...
In regard to this specific question then I would say highly intelligent trumps smartness. Specifically for designing a superior tech to bitcoin. I do not believe the things that you have listed as making him not smart would prevent him essentially from being able to design a bitcoin killer. It is also not clear how to isolate smart entirely from highly intelligent.
I think he would himself acknowledge he does have a personality that takes some getting used to. I think when he is not feeling well you can not make fair assessment of him. When he is feeling in good health he is often quite patient and goes out of his way to explain things to you even though you can tell he is frustrated you can't understand or see things as he does straight away. I guess unless you live in another persons exact life it is hard to know why people act as they do.
I think it is a bit unfair to say he can't show anything to substantiate the possibility he is one of the few that could design exactly that which we are discussing here. I mean to display such a deep understanding of the technology to me is indication you could possibly design something superior.
Anyway I don't want to turn this thread into an argument about his personality. I am simply saying I think he is one of the few that could possibly design tech superior to that of bitcoin. That does not mean it is a definite... only that if any person can here he has a good chance.
I found him very interesting. I also think it is not nice to forget the contributions to threads he made and remember only his bad moments.
His style made him controversial but to try and pull apart his arguments was often very difficult. I know a lot liked him and some didn't. The fact people still talk about him though demonstrates he made a definite impression one way or another.
If he brought out a good white paper tomorrow you know most would be diving in. I know quite a few are waiting for it still. Run a poll i think you will be surprised how many here think he has a chance of pulling it off.
I think in this thread specifically we should focus more on his technical ability to design a bitcoin killer than his personality quirks that may be in part mostly due to illness anyway.
For all we know satoshi could be more difficult to share an apartment with or get on in everyday life with than anonymint. The design and code will be the deciding factor here.
