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June 10, 2019, 09:24:34 AM
Last edit: June 10, 2019, 10:02:31 AM by Last of the V8s

oh of course.
https://reason.com/2019/06/05/if-we-told-you-neal-stephenson-invented-bitcoin-would-you-be-surprised/
everything makes sense now

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Fall may not be Stephenson's best novel, but it might be his most Stephensonian.

At roughly 900 pages, it is a smorgasbord of acronyms and ideas, action and exposition, characters and subplots.
No, I am absolutely not surprised at clickbait.

Why do you people keep talking about this shit?
Ouch. Right in the amygdala, you bastard.
This time it's different? Ok this time it's not different.
But it is more about the Neal, who is of legitimate interest to some. To others, the Neal's star shone briefly and pallidly.
Have you read any?
It's just weird. We are literally at the forefront of a technological breakthrough that could revolutionize the world, we stand to become filthy rich if things play out as they have been, we are the one percent of the one percent. We know how the tech works. And people keep paying fucking attention to scammers. WHY?!
That piece might be considered pretty harmless and tongue-in-cheek. Guess you're more referring to the cult of Craig and other satoshimposters. Some are paying attention to warn off the newbs and expose the scam, some are taken in by the silver tongue, some are in league, complicit, scammers.[edit, some find it funny] But you do see what just happened? I conceded it was not worthy of discussion, and changed the subject.