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1. Radical Edward (radicaledward@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 04:16:30 UTC Radical Edward

   Be sure to boost your fellow hackers.townies for extra GibCoin™ rewards!

   • The_Gibson (thegibson@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 04:16:29 UTC The_Gibson

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     @RadicalEdward I am both flattered and embarassed by the fact I predicted NFTs.

   • ∨∃ (vortex_egg@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 04:16:29 UTC ∨∃

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     • The_Gibson

     @thegibson @RadicalEdward stares in a paper from my undergrad comp sci circa 2002 about using chains of digital signatures to create an append-only data structure for validating identities in decentralized networks.

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   • ∨∃ (vortex_egg@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 04:16:47 UTC ∨∃

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     @thegibson @RadicalEdward I won't lie, every so often I wonder whether I'm going to find out that the professor I handed that paper in to will turn out to be Satoshi Nakamoto, and then I will have even more atoning to do for this cursed reality.

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   • f.rift :fire_blue: (feonixrift@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 04:16:47 UTC f.rift :fire_blue:

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     @vortex_egg
     @thegibson @RadicalEdward
     If it's any consolation, the rudimentary design also appeared in Schneier's Applied Cryptography... As an example of a bad idea that has too many obvious downsides to be applicable in the real world. Bitcoin was literally a textbook example of a bad idea.

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   • f.rift :fire_blue: (feonixrift@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 05:34:55 UTC f.rift :fire_blue:

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     • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

     @jens @vortex_egg @thegibson @RadicalEdward The 'real satoshi' are the research librarians who can find this shit. I knew people whose entire job was 'read old journals looking for algorithms that were published long before they became feasible to implement.

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   • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻 (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 05:34:57 UTC Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

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     @feonixrift @vortex_egg @thegibson @RadicalEdward If it's any consolation, this is how the monotone DVCS was working, which Linus copied to make git. Which means practical implementations existed around 2003.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 05:35:43 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻
     @feonixrift That job becomes more important every year.
     
     @thegibson @RadicalEdward @vortex_egg @jens
   • ∨∃ (vortex_egg@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 05:38:19 UTC ∨∃

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     • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

     @clacke @thegibson @feonixrift @RadicalEdward @jens Eventually the information&computing profession will entirely split into deep learning ninja-rockstar-wizards, and librarians. There will be no middle ground.

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   • Radical Edward (radicaledward@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:31:15 UTC Radical Edward

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     @thegibson @vortex_egg what if satoshi is the friends we made along the way?

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   • The_Gibson (thegibson@hackers.town)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:31:16 UTC The_Gibson

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     @vortex_egg @RadicalEdward what if satoshi is all of us?