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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado (arstechnica.com)

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[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

He has also co-authored scores of academic papers on a diverse range of research fields, including cryptography, systems security, and data privacy, including the protection of human genomic data.

I want to dream that it was either foreign actor involvement or he cracked something big like a cryptocurrency

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Cryptocurrency is not big, it is a scam.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 months ago

scams can be big.

[–] josefo@leminal.space 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Also cryptography and cryptocurrency are not the same my dude

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

That’s not even the first guy who named both cryptocurrency and cryptography in the same comment, my guy

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

I think you misread my comment, I didn't mention cryptography, I only mentioned cryptocurrency.

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Scam or not, the current market cap for crypto currencies is $US 2.67T https://coinmarketcap.com/

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And it's been around for 17 years now so if it's a Ponzi scheme it's one of the most amazingly long-running ones ever.

People are free to dislike cryptocurrency and to not use it, but they should at least recognize that there are people who do use it and who do like it.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago

Thank you for stating the obvious, please qoute me where I mention that people can't use or like it.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then how do you donate to an international movement that got blacklisted by paypal, swift, etc?

Cryptocurrency has value.

[–] llama@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If they're blacklisted then how will they sell the cryptocurrency for fiat and be able to use the fiat in any meaningful way?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because its a p2p currency. You can't blacklist a p2p currency. There's is no middleman.

Thats why its valuable.

[–] llama@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's true but operationally they can't pay for all their expenses in cryptocurrency so they will need to sell it for fiat first.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sure, but you can sell it p2p and get cash. You dont need to go through a company like tradfi.

Or you can buy prepaid cards and use those to pay for expenses.

All those problems have been solved. Its a great way for dissidents to raise funds internationally