On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Ted Smith <tedks@riseup.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.