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Re:Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website... by marcosdumay on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:44PM (#25862396)
Maybe because he didn't expect anybody to do a lot of work to convince him of a basically worthless fact.

How long have you spent verifying your own computing platform? However it is, it is never impossible that somebody can corrupt it and fool you about something.

Re:Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website... by CydeWeys on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:50PM (#25862486)
> he didn't expect anybody to do a lot of work to convince him of a basically worthless fact.

Being Satoshi seems like the exact opposite of a basically worthless fact.

Gavin was just being gullible. Being a good early developer on an important project isn't mutually exclusive with being gullible to social engineering.

Re:Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website... by marcosdumay on Thursday January 21, 2021 @03:30PM (#25863810)
What does he lose if he guesses wrong?
Re:Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website... by Melting_Harps on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:06PM (#25864237)
> What does he lose if he guesses wrong?

Total credibility loss in the BTC community.

I could some how look past his indiscretions: calling himself 'chief Scientist' of an open source project, gate-keeping antics for pull requests, attempted forks with Hearn et al, his involvement with the foundation... He was still critical to the project for many years and not beyond redemption as open source project typically fork into other things for experimentation purposes that grow the project in the long term--Linux distros being a prime example.

But when he went public that he bought faketoshi's narrative it was clear he was beyond help, and that his meeting at the NSA was more than what any of us ever assumed and he was so compromised that nothing could help that anymore.

I hope he is mentally well, and I'm sure he has enough money to do what ever he wants in Life if he just kept a fraction of his coins, but other than I never want to see or hear from Gavin ever again.

Re:Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website... by brohee on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:01PM (#25864184)
Reputation obviously... He'll forever be "the guy who believed Craig"