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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who the fuck tell their kids bedtime stories about the idea of technological singularity??

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I fell asleep to that by myself.

Getting digital cable in my bedroom as a kid was both a blessing and a curse, and I listened to Michio Kaku a lot. Didn’t understand half of it, but hey, it was cool.

Keep in mind, this was when I was a kid and thought all adults were good people and didn’t understand that Kaku and Tyson were dickheads or that Discovery Science was junk food borderline scifi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ngl Sci-Fi Science was really interesting as a kid.