actually attempt to hide identity in the crowd would look more suspicious. the idea of hiding in the crowd requires to blend in, not look like you are hiding something.

ah, and sorry for the typos.

Only to other Bitcoin transactions.

This has worked for me.

Someone on Reddit has already recognized the two men, they stayed at a motel where the Redditor works

Trillions? I think you're being just a little over optimistic about the future of bitcoin here.

It's the stated hope of some in the bitcoin community that bitcoin become one of the top 3 currencies in the world.

I don't think it's realistic to expect that to happen any time soon.

Nobody said anything about soon.

Can you detail some of the criticism please? I understand what he's doing and it makes sense to me - and I too believe those blocks identified probably belongs to Satoshi or someone very close to them.

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Maybe you could try making backups next time?

Unfortunately you can't back up billable hours, and carrying an entirely separate laptop or disk on the expectation that your main one will fail seems a bit too weird, especially when robust alternatives exist

As an hourly contractor as well, I back up everything to the cloud and have at least two laptops in a 'ready' state. Trusting hardware to work is... brave.

Would certainly be smarter than banking on the reliability of a single HDD.

The cynic in me thinks the current system is acceptable. Everything is copyrighted forever and everything is freely available on The Pirate Bay anyway.

I don't like the situation because authors doesn't get an honest compensation for their work and you can't easily create new works based on old copyrighted oeuvre.

I think it would be in the interest of the public that you have a more limited in time copyright and after a certain delay an obligation to let other creator reuse assets with a compensation schema that allows new creations.

This is not correct anymore, according to D-Wave they do have a factoring algorithm now.

Interesting. Do you have some pointers to that?

I thought both the D-Wave 1 & 2 both had specialist quantum chips that couldn't run Shor's.

Hmmm... can't find anything else on that apart from the mention in that blog post. Is there more detail anywhere?

They also implicitly state that it's not Shor's which is (to the best of my knowledge) the most effective integer factorisation algorithm for general purpose QCs currently know.

They also say that they "have a factoring algorithm". They don't say that it's actually implemented on running hardware.

I also notice the complete lack of clarification on the followup question that poked on the explicit "executed it on real hardware" question ;-)