--On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 8:16 PM -0500 "Bill St. Clair" <billstclair@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Ted Smith <tedks@riseup.net> wrote:
I'm not sure how you're evaluating his "investment," which was solving a number of previously-thought-unsolvable problems in applied cryptography in a way that became wildly popular, widely used, and enabled a large amount of very influential services.
Contributing to the world in such a manner rarely results in such wealth, but I don't see why it shouldn't.
Indeed. His invention is worth whatever value the market assigns it, and it's nobody's business to judge otherwise.
What market? Bitcoin exists because of the state, just like drug dealers. If there were a real free market out there nobody would bother with something like bitcoin.
-Bill