I watched the video yesterday. Yes, it is a very nice presentation.
It's good that he avoids the exaggerated sales hype of most bitcoin enthusiasts. However it seems he has been listening from one ear only, as he barely mentions some of the problems, or omits them altogether. Like the impossibility of correcting mistakes or thefts.
But, well, you can't expect an old man to properly understand such a new thing, can you?
At one point he says that bitcoin is great because it has no rich bankers buying out government. Is he aware of KnC buying their way into the Bitcoin Foundation, and "electing" their investor/friend Brock Pierce to the board of directors?
It's good that he avoids the exaggerated sales hype of most bitcoin enthusiasts. However it seems he has been listening from one ear only, as he barely mentions some of the problems, or omits them altogether. Like the impossibility of correcting mistakes or thefts.
But, well, you can't expect an old man to properly understand such a new thing, can you?
At one point he says that bitcoin is great because it has no rich bankers buying out government. Is he aware of KnC buying their way into the Bitcoin Foundation, and "electing" their investor/friend Brock Pierce to the board of directors?
He is an old man but it is not right to say that he does not properly understand bitcoin. This guy gave a 1 hour plus lecture on bitcoin. Try doing that if one does not know about the subject.
If you think that you can offer a more balance view and you know more than him, try doing a video or at least write a paper to present your case? It would be more helpful than giving comments which are often IMHO distractions from the main subject.
Whether Jorge is a professor or NOT, he has already demonstrated in his nearly 4,000 posts here that he is more than capable of stringing along a series of irrelevant points and building upon them to the extent to which they begin to seem almost relevant. In other words, I would NOT mix up quantity with quality, and Jorge surely seems to be capable of producing quantity.. He could probably carry out a 24 hour marathon series of presentation of irrelevance, just to prove the point that he is NOT at a loss of words and that he is UP to the challenge to show his presentation prowess (problem will be to recognize whether there is anything meaningful related to BTC contained therein).
I did some research and seems Jorge Stolfi is a University level professor and researcher in computer science.
He een has a wikipedia page for him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Stolfi
Considering his account is not a fake one, would be interesting see his technical opinions about the bitcoin protocol, but he keeps acting like an academic version of the fallllling guy.
I do believe he is who he says he is in this forum. But I find it hard to believe that he makes posts like that given his stature. His posts are factual, to be fair, but hardly balanced. He seems to not know that things, like a coin, have 2 sides. But overwhelmingly, he just gives one side of the matter. Oh, did I mention that he likes to distract people a lot?
