Who are their employers?
Nick Szabo the one born in 1930, graduate of UC Berkeley, resident of Silicon Valley (Cupertino), employed at Lockheed, Link-Singer, and KLA,
http://www.faireconomy.org/files/pdf/notalonereportfinal.pdf
Topic: Nick Szabo, Wei Dai... Who are their employers? - page 3. (Read 12146 times)
Hello everyone,
i was just asking myself if both B-money by Wei and Bit-Gold by Szabo remained only a theorical project,
or if they concretely tried to put them into practice.
Thanks for the attention.
i was just asking myself if both B-money by Wei and Bit-Gold by Szabo remained only a theorical project,
or if they concretely tried to put them into practice.
Thanks for the attention.
Wei Dai doesn't seem to be the person who would develop a crypto-currency like Bitcoin.
I think Wei Dai is best known for his CryptoPP open source library.
Wei Dai doesn't seem to be the person who would develop a crypto-currency like Bitcoin.
I think Wei Dai is best known for his CryptoPP open source library.
Interesting... Looks like Wei Dai has put up a Bitcoin address on his home page: 1AkqxLJn8H6Cg5VAaYijzj7hQUSeM2LJ3r. Currently holds 46 BTC.
Quote from: Wei Dai
If you read the Wikipedia article, you should know that I didn't create Bitcoin but only described a similar idea more than a decade ago. And my understanding is that the creator of Bitcoin, who goes by the name Satoshi Nakamoto, didn't even read my article before reinventing the idea himself. He learned about it afterward and credited me in his paper. So my connection with the project is quite limited.
BTW, thanks to the discussion you started, I bought a Radeon 5870 and started mining myself, since it looks likely that I can at least break even on the cost of the card. (Of course I heard about Bitcoin earlier, but in my version of the idea, nobody can make large profits by mining/minting, so I didn't look into the possibility.) However I should warn you and others here that I have not analyzed the security of the protocol (since my time is perhaps better spent on other problems at the moment). My understanding is that not many other cryptographers have analyzed its security either, and in my experience these kinds of protocols often have flaws that are not found until that has happened.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/4cs/making_money_with_bitcoin/3lq1
BTW, thanks to the discussion you started, I bought a Radeon 5870 and started mining myself, since it looks likely that I can at least break even on the cost of the card. (Of course I heard about Bitcoin earlier, but in my version of the idea, nobody can make large profits by mining/minting, so I didn't look into the possibility.) However I should warn you and others here that I have not analyzed the security of the protocol (since my time is perhaps better spent on other problems at the moment). My understanding is that not many other cryptographers have analyzed its security either, and in my experience these kinds of protocols often have flaws that are not found until that has happened.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/4cs/making_money_with_bitcoin/3lq1
Interesting... Looks like Wei Dai has put up a Bitcoin address on his home page: 1AkqxLJn8H6Cg5VAaYijzj7hQUSeM2LJ3r. Currently holds 46 BTC.
Quote from: Wei Dai
If you read the Wikipedia article, you should know that I didn't create Bitcoin but only described a similar idea more than a decade ago. And my understanding is that the creator of Bitcoin, who goes by the name Satoshi Nakamoto, didn't even read my article before reinventing the idea himself. He learned about it afterward and credited me in his paper. So my connection with the project is quite limited.
BTW, thanks to the discussion you started, I bought a Radeon 5870 and started mining myself, since it looks likely that I can at least break even on the cost of the card. (Of course I heard about Bitcoin earlier, but in my version of the idea, nobody can make large profits by mining/minting, so I didn't look into the possibility.) However I should warn you and others here that I have not analyzed the security of the protocol (since my time is perhaps better spent on other problems at the moment). My understanding is that not many other cryptographers have analyzed its security either, and in my experience these kinds of protocols often have flaws that are not found until that has happened.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/4cs/making_money_with_bitcoin/3lq1
BTW, thanks to the discussion you started, I bought a Radeon 5870 and started mining myself, since it looks likely that I can at least break even on the cost of the card. (Of course I heard about Bitcoin earlier, but in my version of the idea, nobody can make large profits by mining/minting, so I didn't look into the possibility.) However I should warn you and others here that I have not analyzed the security of the protocol (since my time is perhaps better spent on other problems at the moment). My understanding is that not many other cryptographers have analyzed its security either, and in my experience these kinds of protocols often have flaws that are not found until that has happened.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/4cs/making_money_with_bitcoin/3lq1
Who are these two people? Cannot find anything about them online.
Wei Dai's home page is here.Nick Szabo's home page is here.
Satoshi Nakamoto's home page is here.
Who are these two people? Cannot find anything about them online.
what i remember from early bitcoin reading, they had the idea posted on a kind of cryptography forum/mailing listtry to find that mailing list's archive and you'll find more of their contributions to the field of study.
and maybe they are alter ego's of satoshi nakawhatever
Who are these two people? Cannot find anything about them online.
Quote from: wikipedia.org
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer implementation of Wei Dai's b-money proposal and Nick Szabo's Bitgold proposal.
Please also expand the article in the wikipedia, if it is possible
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