Quote from: fluffypony on March 01, 2015, 04:25:01 PM

Quote from: rustynailer on March 01, 2015, 12:38:56 PM

Here is a link to a recent article he has wrote. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/competing-completing-isidor-zeuner?trk=mp-reader-card

Unfortunately that has zero cryptography in it, and reads more as a fluff piece, so not really relevant.

Quote from: Pline on March 01, 2015, 02:56:14 PM

I saw that negative review when looking into Isidor also. It made me think twice for a bit too, but I don't think its fair to judge on one person's comments.

When looking further into him, I read his posts on the bitcoin developer mailing list. I saw he was active there and many times commenting on anonymity. This made me feel much better about him doing the review. Here is the link, you can search his posts on the bitcoin dev mailing list if you like: https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/

Here are a couple examples of his posts having to do with anonymity and Tor:

https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg06525.html

https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg03712.html

I've read his occasional emails to the dev list over the course of 2014 as they came in, I only made the connection after I put my post up. Sending emails to the Bitcoin dev list certainly doesn't make one a cryptographer unless those emails are cryptographic in nature, and Zeuner's have not been. Let me provide a contrast by showing a conversation between two actual cryptographers, Andrew Poelstra and Adam Back. Just in case anyone's credentials are in question, Adam is the creator of hashcash, which is the proof-of-work system (not algorithm, but the actual system) that Bitcoin and virtually every other cryptocurrency uses.

Yes. I know who Adam Back is.
No I do not know who Satoshi is.
No I do not know who fluffypony is.

Zeuner? Some people know who Zeuner is

By all means fluffypony you r entitled to undermine his credibility.
U r equally entitled to ignore his review. Altho it behooves u to do the opposite.

G'day (enjoy the BBQ)

n.b playing with fire now: ur credibility is established how? Can u link me to ur CV/linkedin?

thx

p.s. i like how elusive Isidor is. Hallmark of a crypto-dude imo. He lives in Leipzig Area btw Wink