2) L0la L33tz goes hard after Trump in this TheRage article. (Side note: Which suggests whatever flavor of Slavic "she" might be--per "your great-grandfather on 15 Slivovitz"--it's likely not Russian.) Which suggests that the tone used in the original version of her Coindesk article was entirely her own. I suspect some editors might push for more incendiary tones and even inject ad hominem verbiage despite the wishes of their authors, but I also suspect those editors are extremely nice people who are extremely helpful to authors, which I suspect would make it all very complicated to talk about later. Anyway, L0La L33tz almost certainly wrote 100% of what was in the original Coindesk article. And I don't even think it was very bad or a personal attack. When I read the original I had no feelings/opinions either way toward the CEO. I did however have a lot of questions about Chainanalysis that I think would be great to get some answers to. This certainly made it much easier to rewrite the article in a way that could get it republished. We are only now learning that a lot of "forensic science," especially for matters like arson, are psuedoscience. Basically DNA is ironclad, the rest is iffy. Similarly, I think, that which is definitely on-chain is ironclad, how it then relates to the real-world can be iffy. Good for a lead, but evidence in court?
Ironically, the fact that I find on-chain ironclad and important to making decisions that can affect society as a whole is why /I think/ I'm more ethically on the /other/ side of TheRage and L0la L33tz on the issue of privacy and disconnecting from the chain. I like the articles, and they make me question a lot that I haven't got figured out. On the transparency vs privacy debate, I believe in privacy in inverse proportion to power, but defining that, and finding and enforcing the right balance, is the hard part. So, still don't know, still trying to figure out, still enjoying the process, but still worrying about what will happen in the meantime.
L0La L33tz' https://www.therage.co/strap-in-for-the-bitcoin-dollar/ was interesting for two reasons:
1) It mentioned the Internet Archive, which is coincidentally the only place you can read the original version of this: https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2023/07/24/chainalysis-testimony-raises-the-question-do-we-know-how-well-any-such-software-works/ . However, if you want to read this https://web.archive.org/web/20230724223806/https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/07/24/chainalysis-investigations-lead-is-unaware-of-scientific-evidence-the-surveillance-software-works/ you might need a browser that blocks Javascript by: a) turning it off universally which can be on just about any browser, b) using a dedicated add-on like noscript on a browser like Firefox, or c) using an add-on that can do it along with other functionality, apparently UBlock Origin can now block javascript granularly. This is because archive.org apparently uses a copy of the javascript from coindesk.com and coindesk's javascript apparently doesn't like permanent, immutable records that aren't under its centralized control. Funny. Side note: If TheRage really wants to put its code where its ethos supposed is, they should look into permaweb publishing. Ardrive can be used supposedly to host, and "Ghost" which powers "TheRage" apparently also works with self hosting, https://ghost.org/docs/hosting/ , so it could be the primary form of hosting or a high-availability fallback/mirror.
2) L0la L33tz goes hard after Trump in this TheRage article. (Side note: Which suggests whatever flavor of Slavic "she" might be--per "your great-grandfather on 15 Slivovitz"--it's likely not Russian.) Which suggests that the tone used in the original version of her Coindesk article was entirely her own. I suspect some editors might push for more incendiary tones and even inject ad hominem verbiage despite the wishes of their authors, but I also suspect those editors are extremely nice people who are extremely helpful to authors, which I suspect would make it all very complicated to talk about later. Anyway, L0La L33tz almost certainly wrote 100% of what was in the original Coindesk article. And I don't even think it was very bad or a personal attack. When I read the original I had no feelings/opinions either way toward the CEO. I did however have a lot of questions about Chainanalysis that I think would be great to get some answers to. This certainly made it much easier to rewrite the article in a way that could get it republished. We are only now learning that a lot of "forensic science," especially for matters like arson, are psuedoscience. Basically DNA is ironclad, the rest is iffy. Similarly, I think, that which is definitely on-chain is ironclad, how it then relates to the real-world can be iffy. Good for a lead, but evidence in court?
Ironically, the fact that I find on-chain ironclad and important to making decisions that can affect society as a whole is why /I think/ I'm more ethically on the /other/ side of TheRage and L0la L33tz on the issue of privacy and disconnecting from the chain. I like the articles, and they make me question a lot that I haven't got figured out. On the transparency vs privacy debate, I believe in privacy in inverse proportion to power, but defining that, and finding and enforcing the right balance, is the hard part. So, still don't know, still trying to figure out, still enjoying the process, but still worrying about what will happen in the meantime.