who is joe?
do you mean jorge? (hint read slowly with eyes open)
JorgeStolfi ... some self-styled 'academic' who showed up here recently pontificating (wrongly) about bitcoin.
ok thanks,
He's a computer scientist who's made a statement about the economic aspect of Bitcoin, congrats you "debunked" a out of profession statement of somebody!
Come back if he writes something about the protocol or software.
Bitcoin seems intuitively faulty to people who do not understand Austrian economics the same way heliocentric theory seemed intuitively bad to non-astronomers a few hundred years ago. The truth is only obvious once the paradigm shift has been made.