Quote from: gmaxwell on March 09, 2019, 05:40:57 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on March 08, 2019, 06:24:44 PM

Quote from: btcusury on March 08, 2019, 05:57:33 PM

LOL of course it was sarcasm! Cheesy

They have gotten to a level of ridiculous where sarcasm is hard to distinguish from their genuine beliefs. Embarrassed

I do appreciate your clarification because I was beginning to doubt myself.
Also, I do appreciate that frequently some of the best jokes achieve their best results when they are made as if they were serious. Cheesy

Poe's law man, poe's law.

The bamboozled are going to feel pretty cheated when they figure out that I'm just some nobody that got targeted because of my lifelong promotion of freedom and privacy technology. It's probably no accident that "hacking team" was sending out newsletter claiming that bitcoin could become an establishment threat if got improved privacy and then I become a number one target, complete with an over the top disinformation laden NYT hit piece, short after after I published a design and implementation of Confidential Transactions.

Several of the technical presentation aspects of bitcoin are so above my head that I can only superficially attempt to keep track of them - given my other life activities, so regarding some of your technical publications, I am not sure if above you are referring to the Xthinner link that you posted above or some other attributed writings from the dev mailinglist that I am aware of, namely Taproot and Graftroot. Maybe those are not yours, but I thought that I heard some presentations that represented them to be recent publications of yours that were described and read by Max Hilibrant on the World Crypto Network.

Hopefully, you don't let the targeting get to you because from what I understand you have been able to continue to give great contributions to bitcoin, and even in spite of your being extensively attacked for several years already. You are fairly famous for being attacked, one of the reasons why satoshi disappeared, and maybe they think that you are satoshi?

I will ask you this. Have you ever seen satoshi and gmaxwell in the same room at the same time?

By the way, many people who have been around the block a few times already appreciate that effective people are going to be targeted more than non-effective people, so it is really good if coders are able to learn from you and your code, and my understanding that you are able to pick out loopholes and issues with code that others need to learn and contribute as many redundant parts of a decentralized and multi-faceted machine like you seem to suggest, and perhaps publishing under various other pseudonyms could be helpful too.

Security through obscurity, and perhaps some positive aspects of all the shitcoins, whether supposed security coins or decentralized computing or other snake oils, is that they distract people into thinking that those various shit coins/projects are actually providing value - which seems to allow a decent amount of continued work, progress and adoption with bitcoin and lightning network which results in increasing network effects in terms of adoption (in the Trace Mayer framework of the 7 simultaneous network effects of bitcoin)..., and thank you to the many technical folks, of course including you gmaxwell (even though you want to downplay your "nobody" aspect) for those ongoing contributions whether publishing new pieces or merely just reviewing the proposed contributions of others (code, BIPs or otherwise).