[1] - https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1609655629903265795
It means that rather than being a story about public affairs, snake oils, and conspiracies -- security is now a legitimate business concern.
I won't pretend to have an endgame, but I really don't see too much to loathe. Even the most vehement concerns are easily reframed as opportunity.
- Unsuspecting public? To contrast crypto with the system not many people's personal financial planning involves bounding correlations between News Sentiment -> VVIX -> VIX -> Derivatives market -> Volatile inflation across all sectors.
- Security concerns? Again, this slaps a price tag, and hence quantifiable risk-level on every computer system security level -- airgapped? networked? It's practically its own insurance, on software that is still centuries away from being closed-form auditable.
- Proof of work? Global governments cooperate to limit, minimize, control power usage. Not such a bad thing in that light, the power system could use more care and engineering as it is.
Bitcoin sees this centralization as a bug and the inability to reverse transactions is a feature.
Why do crypto bros only want the government to step in when they LOSE money???
Yes, I refunded.
He made it worse by being so public, and hosting his own (publicly known) servers.
This is his mastodon, let's see if he posts anything there:
It's possible that only his twitter account got hacked, and the hacker is having some fun with it.
Beyond being a bitcoin core dev [1], Luke-Jr is also the author of an independent node and wallet implementation known as Bitcoin Knots [2].
[1] https://github.com/luke-jr
[2] https://bitcoinknots.org/