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5c508c34 | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 wouldn't it also ruin a lot of the mystery and branding around bitcoin?
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Karnage | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 mystery? yes. Branding? I am not sure why it would matter.
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5c508c34 | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 i'd guess the mystery and anonymity is part of the branding?
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Karnage | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 well yeah, but why would it matter? What do you expect to happen? People all of a sudden not feeling passionately about "the brand"?
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5c508c34 | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yeah, good point 🤔
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Karnage | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I don't really know. Maybe something happens? But, I don't see why. It's still doing what it's supposed to do. The same utility.
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5c508c34 | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 maybe the person's history would be endlessly digged up and it'd be used to force a new agenda against bitcoin on the media, i suppose?
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doe | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 He is dead so not of a big deal for him anyway.
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5c508c34 | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 what did you do to him?
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doe | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Not me.
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Karnage | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yeah possibly. we'd just treat it as another form of attack and fight back, same as everything else. I think the strength is now in the community and adoption. Too much at stake for too many people to let one person's history do anything to the network.