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<p>Peter Fairbrother schrieb am 27.07.2026 15:15 (GMT +02:00):</p>
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<pre>The "greatest-fool" part is that you have to find someone who is a
bigger fool than you to sell it at a profit. When you get to the
greatest fool ... everything collapses.
(...)
While we all admire CGHQ^H^H^H^H Satoshi's coding style, I sometimes
wonder whether Bitcoin was a spoiler attack against the development of a
truly anonymous online currency.
Peter Fairbrother
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<p>I would love, if you could explain the last part of your posting. What is you theory here? Always I thought SN would be a former McDonalds employee, went to Germany to do weird kinky stuff there.<br><br>I do not see a "greater fool" or "greatest fool" here. Bitcoin could stil be around, when you are dead. (Big James Bond joke.) And possible you will pass on the foolishness!<br><br>Was it Aleister Crowley who said: "Everyday another fool is born!"? (Another James Bond joke.)<br><br><br>----<br><br>We could connect this thread (about beeing anonymous with Bitcoin) to the other thread about the age of an internet user anonymously.<br><br><br>Imagine a Darkroom in Berlin City. You can go in and have fun with someone. Related to each other you are anonymous. But everyone could watch you entering the club (in which the Darkroom) is. And if someone is switch the light on in the Darkroom, I think they can see who you are. <br><br>And there is also the problem that your encounter for fun is shaking his/her/* head to say "no" in the dark, that the person is underage or drunken (and can not consent). The last to points you could avoid by showing your ID to a security person (and taking a breath test, when you entering the club. No underage person allowed. So yes, in the end you have to trust this person, that the person is not recording something, and that the person is knowing the ID card features very well. Also there a third party could watch this proxy activity and/or could switch on the light in the Darkroom. (Or yourself or the second party/you encounter to having fun.)<br><br>Of course - another idea would be two different clubs with a Darkroom each.... And there is a hole in the wall between the two Club's Darkrooms. // But then, someone could "grab the worm", and you would be stuck!<br><br>Have fun<br><br>Roland Ionas Bialke</p>
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