<![CDATA[It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece.]]>It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.OETP.MPLF9R5oa0F1&smid=url-share

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/e2bf60e2-1b7f-445e-997d-c77964349781/it-is-remarkable-to-see-something-like-this-explained-as-though-it-was-the-technique-for-casting-bronze-in-ancient-greece.RSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 22:25:57 GMTThu, 09 Apr 2026 11:25:23 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:46:24 GMT]]>@Viss @overholt Certainly it feels that way

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://vmst.io/users/jalefkowit/statuses/116375760725497562https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://vmst.io/users/jalefkowit/statuses/116375760725497562Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:46:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:45:18 GMT]]>@overholt 1995 was in fact six thousand years ago

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Viss/statuses/116375756381658559https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Viss/statuses/116375756381658559Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:45:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:26:37 GMT]]>@jimfl that was my first thought, Adam Back (Bitcoin famous) was one of them in the 90's đŸ€”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/connynasch/statuses/116375446968243196https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/connynasch/statuses/116375446968243196Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:26:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:03:08 GMT]]>@blogdiva @overholt A lot of people used courier in newsreaders which was originally developed for typewriters in the 50s. https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2059 But I don’t recall seeing it when using mailing lists, my earliest memory of those was on an Apple computer with a bitmap font, probably Monaco.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/KerryMitchell/statuses/116375354638955661https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/KerryMitchell/statuses/116375354638955661Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:03:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:02:10 GMT]]>@overholt @VCP but
but
but mailing lists still exist!! And are commonly used!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://lingo.lol/users/abdalian/statuses/116375350862989131https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://lingo.lol/users/abdalian/statuses/116375350862989131Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:02:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:30:56 GMT]]>@overholt It wasn't even necessary to reply-all, of course, and some forms of etiquette called for not doing that, since you could just reply to the list and the list would distribute to all the members...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/blp/statuses/116375228045378744https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/blp/statuses/116375228045378744Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:30:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:27:52 GMT]]>@blogdiva Wikipedia says he graduated college a year after I did, so I would expect him to have some experience of typewriters--I took a typing class in high school, but we produced our school newspaper on fancy new Macs.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glammr.us/users/overholt/statuses/116375215977165284https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glammr.us/users/overholt/statuses/116375215977165284Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:27:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:22:08 GMT]]>@overholt “in old typewriter font”? the thing is, i highly doubt whomever wrote this ever used a typewriter.

such a weird sentence to describe a choice of plaintext font that wasn’t standard at all. the monospace is declared but what’s rendered is whichever font you have designated for monospace.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/blogdiva/statuses/116375193440376414https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/blogdiva/statuses/116375193440376414Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:22:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:06:27 GMT]]>@satsuma @overholt Yeah, sounds like they actually believe there was font information in the message; like you couldn't *change* the font to whatever you felt like, monospaced or otherwise.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodontti.fi/users/tomminieminen/statuses/116375131719245027https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodontti.fi/users/tomminieminen/statuses/116375131719245027Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:06:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:42:45 GMT]]>@overholt tell us about the old ways, Dyl.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/VCP/statuses/116375038569774655https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/VCP/statuses/116375038569774655Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:42:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:20:48 GMT]]>@overholt If you did this cryptic stuff, then maybe you are Satoshi Nakamoto

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/jimfl/statuses/116374952279935675https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/jimfl/statuses/116374952279935675Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:20:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:58:13 GMT]]>@overholt @20002ist The amount of tech—well, let's just call it naĂŻvetĂ©, though I have stronger words in mind—in that article is breath-taking. For example, the author thinks that it's a significant coincidence that his suspect coded in C++, and was interested in public key cryptography for distributed systems. Well, yeah. It was also supposedly non-obvious that a distributed file-sharing network like Gnutella was more resistant to take-down than one like Napster which relied on a central site. Funny, almost contemporaneously with that posting to the Cypherpunks list—a list I was on, too—I gave a talk at the Department of Justice on those two programs, where I made that exact point (slide 24 of https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/talks/NapsterGnutella.pdf). (Aside: I gave the same talk to a conference of tech Asst. US Attorneys and confused some people in the audience because (slide 5) I used the word "neighbor" to refer to an adjacent node on the graph
)
And no, I'm not Satoshi, the two most obvious reasons being a) I'm not an anarchist libertarian who thinks that strong cryptography will make governments vanish (why would it, and why would that be a good thing?), and b) I am an academic who would have published that paper under my own name (slide 6 of https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/classes/s23/l_blockchain.pdf).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/SteveBellovin/statuses/116374863434483657https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/SteveBellovin/statuses/116374863434483657Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:58:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:47:12 GMT]]>@cluaran @satsuma @overholt Monospace font, of which Courier is one example, and with no italics, bold, etc.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/SteveBellovin/statuses/116374820121695141https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/SteveBellovin/statuses/116374820121695141Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:47:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:32:39 GMT]]>@overholt I just always assumed Satoshi and Banksy were the same person or a couple.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/PizzaDemon/statuses/116374762935178115https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/PizzaDemon/statuses/116374762935178115Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:32:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:29:01 GMT]]>@overholt

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/users/alwirtes/statuses/116374748605222112https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/users/alwirtes/statuses/116374748605222112Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:29:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:24:32 GMT]]>@overholt I hope they managed to work in a reference to 2600 (and why that meant what it meant).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://thepit.social/users/20002ist/statuses/116374730990862114https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://thepit.social/users/20002ist/statuses/116374730990862114Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:24:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:16:41 GMT]]>@overholt "old typewriter font" my head just fell off

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://federatedfandom.net/users/villainousfriend/statuses/116374700138969943https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://federatedfandom.net/users/villainousfriend/statuses/116374700138969943Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:16:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:08:28 GMT]]>@satsuma @overholt
Courier font?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/cluaran/statuses/116374667832907716https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/cluaran/statuses/116374667832907716Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:08:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:35:45 GMT]]>So say we all!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/gwenynen/statuses/116374539140662804https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/gwenynen/statuses/116374539140662804Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:35:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:35:01 GMT]]>@overholt when they say “old typewriter font” they mean plain text, right? Email as nature intended.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/satsuma/statuses/116374536300940015https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/satsuma/statuses/116374536300940015Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:35:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:34:26 GMT]]>@overholt the people who became journalists and politicians were always the ones who never had a clue about what was going on with the tubes and are now the ones writing about and regulating them.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/Colman/statuses/116374533979492731https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/Colman/statuses/116374533979492731Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:34:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:32:30 GMT]]>@slevelt “Each ‘handset’ was connected to a vast national network of copper wiring, but calling outside one’s own local area accrued steep per-minute charges.”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glammr.us/users/overholt/statuses/116374526403457246https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glammr.us/users/overholt/statuses/116374526403457246Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:32:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. on Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:30:26 GMT]]>@overholt the way my knees just grumpily cracked

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/users/beep/statuses/116374518248257330https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/users/beep/statuses/116374518248257330Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:30:26 GMT