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

submitted 5 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] oce@jlai.lu 60 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Crypto means hidden, stop using it to talk about cryptography.

[–] SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's also sometimes used as shorthand for crypto-orchidism -undescended testicles.

[–] ExFed@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Ahh, so... crypto, which is based on crypto, can be used to pay for treatments to crypto.

Got it.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Crypto currencies doesn't mean "hidden currency", it means currency based on cryptography.

[–] ExFed@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

Do you mean to say that crypto is based on crypto? Crazy!

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

They meant that choosing one possible definition and saying it’s what the word means is stupid. Words mean pretty much what everyone agrees they mean. Look at all the words that have basically flipped definitions since their inception. Just because the modern derivative of a word means something literally everyone understands but is slightly different than what it used to mean doesn’t mean the oldest answer is the correct one. Unwad your jock.