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Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto (u.today)

submitted 6 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, does not believe in cryptocurrencies, calling them a vehicle for scams and a Ponzi scheme.
Torvalds was once rumored to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, but he clarified it was a joke and denied owning a Bitcoin fortune.
Torvalds also dismissed the idea of technological singularity as a bedtime story for children, saying continuous exponential growth does not make sense.

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[–] Tachikoma741 2 points 6 months ago

Now a days we peer review medicine. As I mentioned, in the "wild west". There's no peer reviewing. The metaphor of the wild west was also pointing out the infancy of a technology. Another example could be how the "self driving cars" aren't actually that self driving. However I suspect that over time even those cars will actually become peer reviewed, functional and what not.

The example that I saw that I liked the best was video games. Just because someone sells bad video games. Doesn't mean all video games are a scam. Ya, know?