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Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Todd’s urgent dismissal of the documentary reads to Hoback like an attempt to throw Satoshi-hunters off the scent. “It doesn’t surprise me at all that Peter would go on the offense. He’s a master of game theory—it’s what he does. He has spent a lot of years now muddying the waters,” says Hoback. “He’s an unbelievable genius.”

I haven't seen the docu, but I did like his (Hoback's) docu about Qanon, Q: Into the Storm.

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 231 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (28 children)

When someone says "He's an unbelievable genius," I now understand that the person speaking is either a con artist or a gullible idiot. Unbelievable geniuses don't exist, there's just specialists, people who get lucky, people who work hard. So if you're saying someone is such a genius, either you have no metric by which to measure genius, or you're selling something.

“I think Cullen made the Satoshi accusation for marketing. He needed a way to get attention for his film.”

Cullen is absolutely selling something: he's selling his documentary.

The various denials and deflections from Todd, [Cullen] claims, are part of a grand and layered misdirection.

Smells 100% like bullshit. I had no take on this documentary one way or the other before, but now I'm very skeptical.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, I think people like Euler are geniuses. Dude created so many theorems that they had to start naming them after the second person to discover them.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe, I don't know enough about him, but I will say this: Nobody fits my definition of "people who work hard" better than Euler.

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

You can't do what Euler did by just working hard. Working hard is a prerequisite but you need to be a genius

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