Adam Back

It being viewed as a discovery rather than a company with a CEO.

Yeah, I think that is actually beneficial.

And of course, the myth and the backstory that there was this founder and he left in 2011 or 2012 is also a fascinating mythology behind Bitcoin.

And that's why we're having this conversation, right?

So I do understand that.

I mean, I think not necessarily in the sense that once the technology exists, it takes on an inertia of its own.

So she had one thing in mind, and

But ultimately, if humanity is using Bitcoin, the people who use it, the economic actors, decide why it's valuable to them.

So I think at this point, the ideas of the person who put it together and implemented it are sort of secondary, right?

It's now a market phenomena.

And, you know, you could say that about the internet too, right?

You know, there were some early pioneers behind email protocols and TCPIP, and that came out of a particular use case in probably military applications initially.

But that's not what the internet's about today.

It's like a general fabric for huge amounts of society, companies and individuals and conversations like we're having right now.

I mean, I think that I rather like the consequences of Bitcoin, but, you know, I have a kind of cypherpaint mindset, a kind of anarcho-capitalist, very free market viewpoint.

I hadn't really thought about that, but I mean, that could be another piece of evidence, looking at the filings and seeing that there's no such disclosure.

Right, but I mean, hiding a disclosure is not good, right?

The SEC filings are legal documents that are carefully reviewed by securities lawyers and so on, right?

People sometimes – I mean, there's a lot of memes on the internet, and the Bitcoiners love their memes.

And one of the memes is a Monty Python sketch where the crowd decides this fellow is –