One problematic nature of this supposed "professor status" is that such proclamation is misleading in itself, and serves as an appeal to authority.
If you check this thread back in late 2013, I never boasted of being a professor; someone else found out eventually, by googling my name. Although I am a prof of computer science, that of course does not make me an authority on bitcoin, and I don't recall ever having appealed to my title.
Again, you seem to be attempting to spin this matter, because even if you did NOT use so many words to proclaim your professorship, over your membership, you have in many ways attempted to incorporate such credentials in order to assert some kind of supposed "expertise"... and in fact that you use your real name tends to support the reality that you want to be known for your real world credentials into this thread...
I don't really have as much of a problem with anyone waiving anonymity, as I do with some of the contents of your various misleading posts in which you frequently attempt to describe something in delightfully and apparently academic ways to suggest that it is some kind of problem in the here and now when it is only hypothetical, speculative to be a problem potentially 50 or 100 years later, assuming that the BTC sphere would be completely locked into such projection.
Stolfi, are you paid to research bitcoin?
I am paid to research computer science. No one tells me what exactly I should research, not even that it has to be strictly computer science; except that I have to satisfy grant committees once a while, and advise students on their thesis topics (and that freedom of research is one of the few advantages of being a university professor).
But frankly bitcoin is more an hobby than work, like my previous net-obsessions with space exploration, cold fusion, the Voynich Manuscript, the Fukushima disaster, Wikipedia, Wikimapia... On the other hand Bitcoin is clearly computer science, so if perchance someone were to complain that I am spending too much time in my hobby, my ass is reasonably covered. And it is also something that I am expected to advise the public about, like electronic voting and other computers-and-society issues.
Certainly, I am NOT stalking you or even really care that much, but you surely do seem to spend quite a bit of time on your "hobby." Have you published any works on bitcoin in academic journals or incorporated anti- bitcoin advocacy into some of your academic teaching and lectures? Surely, there is some academic freedom in teaching students, so sometimes it will NOT matter too much if you have some incorporation of relevant aspects of your hobby into such course teachings or academic advising.. However, I will take with a grain of salt your proclaimed lack of monetary interest in this topic of bitcoin that you are spending so much time to denigrate and to denigrate bitcoin advocates... and even denigrating the motives and hard work of a lot of people who have spent a lot of time developing various aspects of the bitcoin space.
