⭐ Merited by PowerGlove (2)
The moderator could be anonymous, if he is chosen only by theymos and creates a fresh account only for the mod purposes.
If theymos knows who it is, that won't protect them if theymos gets subpoenaed, right? Considering the level of shitfuckery going on, that would be a real risk.Theymos would very likely have to comply with a court order for this. The mods would be the least of his worries though as Craig would likely just go after the forum as a whole.
Though it's really hard to overcome Gavin's continued unwillingness to retract his endorsement-- I think doing so requires enough of everyone else to sign on to make it clear that he's alone (or close to it).
Has anyone tried authoring an open letter to Gavin, requesting that he makes a revised statement? And then members of the community could sign it. I'd imagine we'd get quite a few signatories. That would be a start, at least.
Cripes, after bitcoincleanup.com, now I need to register gavinandressenview.com to make a petition asking Gavin to revise his statement
(Just kidding, I don't think I'll do such a thing).Gavin's statement is meaningless. Bitcoin is not about trusting that Gavin was able to verify satoshi's signature. It's about being able to verify it for ourselves. Gavin was a great influence on Bitcoin and if people like him and Roger weren't around early on, I have no doubt that Bitcoin would not be a success today (or at least nowhere near what it has become). Wanting him to do a retraction is foolish. His opinion literally doesn't matter. If everyone can't verify who satoshi is on their own, then an individual's statement means nothing. Anyone who's been in Bitcoin long enough knows this, so it's odd reading people want a retraction. It literally would mean nothing.
I would slightly disagree. Most people lost respect when Gavin obviously got fooled, but It matters because Craig is using it as one of the pieces of evidence of him being satoshi and therefore he signed it then so he doesn't need to now. If Gavin came out and said "in retrospect it was very likely that I was duped" that would help a lot, though obviously Craig will disregard it and excuse it away like he always does.
To protect against BS lawsuits, it would be good if the Mod has always used Tor.
I understand that (at least at one point) theymos asked for the dox of all the mods for tax purposes. I believe that he gave mods the option to have a percentage of their mod payments withheld in lieu of providing their dox (presumably to be given to the government). I doubt that many forum users *always* access the forum via tor, and probably few, if any of the mods do. Plus, there is always the potential that a mod would access the forum via the clearnet. Giving him that info was optional and not all mods did.