On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 03:35:29 +0000 Peter Fairbrother <peter@tsto.co.uk> wrote:
On 08/11/2022 22:05, hideakisasaki@dnmx.org wrote:
With Bitcoin being created as a byproduct of this mailing list
Bitcoin was, very loosely speaking, a byproduct of the cryptography list.
Most of bitcoin's 'building blocks'/concepts come from the cypherpunks : hash-cash, reusable-proof-of-work, b-money. So the claim "created as a byproduct of this mailing list" is accurate (although you could argue this isn't the original cpunks list). at any rate, your claim "byproduct of the cryptography list" is flatly wrong.
It was in no way a byproduct the cypherpunks list.
....see above
It was/is also a piece of scam which doesn't scale enough to be a currency,
same problem monero has, except monero scales even less. You might also want to specify in which way bitcoin is a scam, and more importantly compare its scam properties to the scam properties of your government's fake money.
which wastes carbon-emitting resources,
wow that's such an original and unexpected...lie. You're parroting the dumbest pro-state, anti-freedom, cop-talk one could imagine. Shocking!
and which doesn't provide reliable anonymity.
Beautiful structure and coding though. And starting off by providing such a good a reference implementation ...
Punk once claimed Bitcoin was created by the man. I don't take much notice of Punk's claims (though if we aren't looking for such attacks - "paranoid" - we shouldn't be in this game), but who else but the man was that good at writing code?
Does XMR solve the problems of Bitcoin?
No. Even with Seraphis it still isn't reliably anonymous. It wastes carbon-dioxide producing resources. And it doesn't scale.
It may be a step or two in the right direction, but I don't know enough about it (and what it may develop into) to say for sure. It has a loooooonng way to go though before it gets really good though.
Peter Fairbrother