Quote from: socrates1024 on July 13, 2014, 02:36:13 AM

2. Ben Laurie wrote the code, but hates the idea. Laurie is a prominent crypto engineer and coder, having written code for OpenSSL and an ecash library called Lucre. He thinks proof-of-work is nonsense though, and would prefer a digital currency system based on a quorum of semi-trusted designated servers.
http://www.links.org/files/decentralised-currencies.pdf

Seems like a pretty counter-intuitive theory about the coder. How much time would you spend coding a system you hated the idea of? What leads you to think that?