--On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 8:16 PM -0500 "Bill St. Clair" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Ted Smith <[email protected]> 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 >
