I’m constantly amazed by how people (who really ought to know better) forget really basic facts. YEARS ago, I went to a Dan Kaminsky talk on Bitcoin at DefCon, in which he (among other stunts) demonstrated how he’d embedded a tribute to a recently-deceased friend in the blockchain - where it would, he informed us, remain legible and public for as long as Bitcoin exists. So why did the Silk Road crowd - and seemingly every other libertarian Bitcoin fan - not know this?
Truly, whoever named them Dunning-Krugerrands was prophetic.
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