owens99

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Entrepreneur, Author, Investor, and Full-Stack Developer.

Currently Managing Partner, BTC Frontier Fund.

Investing in outstanding startup teams building on Bitcoin. https://btcfrontier.fund

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Comment · 1 year ago
Why is this post flagged?
Comment · 1 year ago
Congrats to the everyone who had the conviction to hold Bitcoin all these years.
Comment · 2 years ago
I invested quite a bit of time working in Flutter years ago. The team overpromised and underdelivered. Felt like it was all marketing fluff and I'd been duped.
Comment · 4 years ago
I knew this day would eventually come
Comment · 4 years ago
This blog post about Len Sassaman being Satoshi is very compelling. https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8...

However, there are some valid counter arguments in this thread, such as Satoshi coming out of retirement in March 2014 to state that he was not Dorian Nakamoto, in the wake of a Newsweek article that falsely fingered the latter as Satoshi.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814469

Comment · 4 years ago
Very unlikely. Hal Finney is the more likely candidate.

Adam is/was not a good programmer like Satoshi was. Satoshi was in favor of alt coins in Adam is notoriously against them. "Adam put enough effort into proclaiming that Bitcoin was based on the concept of HashCash that, if he was Satoshi, Satoshi would have given HashCash more credit." - Another HN User. Satoshi had a positive attitude and Adam is notoriously unpleasant.

Hal is a great programmer, worked for Phil Zimmerman on PGP. Hal is the first person Satoshi contacted, first person to mine outside Satoshi (op sec). Hal was aware of all the prior works that failed, b-money, bit gold, hashcash, etc. Linguistic analysis of the Bitcoin whitepaper and Satoshi's forum posts most closely match Hal's writings. Hal lived in the same town for 10 years as did Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. Hal died of ALS shortly after Satoshi disappeared (he knew it was coming and that he couldn't continue).

Comment · 4 years ago
Selling this may ruin the story and crash the price. It would probably go against his values and mission. He could easily have other early wallets and have $B's. Most likely explanation though is that it was Hal Finney who passed shortly after Satoshi disappeared.
Comment · 4 years ago
Chinese doesn't either (technically).

好 = OK,

是 = Is,

Both are used to mean yes

不要 = Don't want,

不用 = Don't need,

Both are used to mean no

Comment · 4 years ago
There are many scams in crypto, and there are many people doing it for speculation, but the space/tech/utility/use cases is not a scam.

It's important to delineate between something that's a scam and speculative, those are not the two same things. A scam is a rug, there's an intent involved, you have scams everywhere not just in crypto.

The legit companies working on DeFi and NFTs are not scams, while some of them may be a bit speculative, there are also companies providing real value to end users.

Comment · 5 years ago
Check out Stacks (https://stacks.co), enables smart contracts on top of Bitcoin through Proof-of-Transfer consensus. Founded by YC alums and launched this January after many years of R&D.

Disclaimer: I'm involved.

Comment · 5 years ago
Thank you for bringing this up.
Comment · 5 years ago
You're smart, I like your comments.
Comment · 5 years ago
Is this more performant than JS or SVG?
Comment · 5 years ago
No. I meant for a normal SPA or CRUD app without video.

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