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A comment on Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be enabled in Bitcoin Core. Parent comment

Re:Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be enable... by lallysingh on Sunday September 27, 2020 @01:26PM (#24608338)
That's a terrible reason!! Name your alias as Other Guy in My Town? What kind of idiot would do that? He's not collecting packages.
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Re:Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be enable... by ivalm on Sunday September 27, 2020 @01:52PM (#24608578)
I mean, more likely to be primed by a name of a guy in the town then randomly selecting a low prevalence name that happens to ALSO be the name of the guy in the town.

It’s not that the marginal probability of using a known name is high, it’s that for a fact the name used IS a known name that makes it suspect.

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Re:Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be enable... by em3rgent0rdr on Sunday September 27, 2020 @01:57PM (#24608644)
People do choose aliases by odd relations like this.
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Re:Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be enable... by lallysingh on Sunday September 27, 2020 @04:19PM (#24609853)
Yes, but I'd expect the inventor of Bitcoin to be a little not-dumb about it.
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