Get yourself a felony and ruin your life

Well, unless you aim to be POTUS

It has been an open secret in the cryptography community that Hal Finney was the designer of BitCoin from the very start. Hal died in 2014. Or at least he was frozen in liquid nitrogen so not talking either way.

Besides being the first person to be involved in BTC who didn't hide behind a pseudonym, Hal published a paper that describes essentially the whole BitCoin scheme two years before BTC was launched. And Hal never once accused Satoshi of stealing his work.

The reason Hal had to hide behind Satoshi is simple: The Harber Stornetta patent didn't expire until about 9 months after BTC launched. That covers the notion of the hash chain. There is absolutely no way anyone working in the field did not know about that patent or its imminent expiry. Hal certainly did because I discussed it with him before BTC was launched.

So the big question is why BTC was launched when it was, why not wait 9 months to have free and clear title? Well, Hal got his terminal ALS diagnosis a few weeks prior: He was a man in a hurry.

Having launched prematurely, Hal had to wait six years after the original expiry of the patent term to avoid a lawsuit over the rights to BTC from Surety. He died before that happened.

Oh and I have absolutely no doubt Hal mined the genesis blocks straight into the bit bucket. The key fingerprint is probably the hash of some English language phrase.

The real inventor of BitCoin wrote a paper describing the architecture two years earlier under his own name, Hal Finney. He got a terminal diagnosis of ALS a few months before he launched the BitCoin service, the pseudonym being necessary at the time because of the Haber-Stornetta patent on the BlockChain.

No, Hal, did not keep the coins. He invented BitCoin because he was a crank with weird ideas about inflation, not to get rich. Mining the coins and keeping them would have been a betrayal of his principles.

The proof of this is given by the fact that Hal did not in fact get rich from BTC despite being the ''second' person to join the project. Nor did Hal ever complain that Satoshi took the credit for what was very clearly his work. If Hal had been just another person coming along, there would have been every reason to keep the cash.

And we do in fact know Hal ran mining servers from the start and that he ended up in serious financial trouble due to his ALS. The freezing his head thing came from donations.

Craig Wright does seem to be the last of the three early advocates alive but that doesn't make him Satoshi. Wright has never shown the slightest sign of being the sort of person who builds such a thing and in any case, Hal's name is on the much earlier paper.

This could also be claimed as evidence that colleges have largely turned into indoctrination camps.

Sure, as long as you define indoctrination camps as places where they encourage you to think for yourself, or in other words, the opposite of indoctrination camps.

Right, then it becomes Someone Else's Problem

Also, don't set fire to your money-maker

OP doesn't know the difference between widely and wildly, it's not surprising he believes things that are not true

THIS is the real answer, right here.

It could mean that higher speeds are typically available for richer neighborhoods, meaning that it's really a question of how well-off you are versus how fast the speed is.

OR

It could mean that 5G is damaging people's brains, leading to a disinterest in civic matters.

OR

Insert your own garbage theory here

The word you're looking for is 'angry'

Your argument goes to the art of engineering. I concur.

After all, if you do not master the subtleties, your design can't deflect the blow, so to speak

It's amazing what with how these instruments are so sensitive and delicate that they can even survive being launched into space.

Go engineers! Do us proud!

When has ms promised that the next version of something would be so much better and failed to deliver?

They're just up to their old tricks; claiming to support interoperability, but with the caveat that "It'll run better on Windows"

Their next step is inserting malware into the Linux kernel, just like they added code in their kernel to hobble any competing products

OP - Yeah, name-calling. What has he actually done

You - Race-baiting, woman-loathing, worker-hating

OP - Lalalalalala I can't hear you

I thought unsuccessful login attempts over ssh resulted in an exponential back-off period between each attempt, so brute-forcing it would take literal years