They probably have enough compute for a 51% attack.
replyDoubtful. ASICs are really good at the only thing they can do.
reply"ChatGPT, use the stylometry that you've developed via hoovering up the history of every internet post ever written to divine the true identity of Satoshi and dispatch men with $5 wrenches to his home address."
reply1000 Colonial Farm Road, Langley, Virginia, United States of America seems likely to me.
replyYou joke but...
replyDollars to donuts it was Len or Hall and good luck getting keys out of a dead man.
replyi hate that $5 wrench meme. Randall Monroe of xkcd is ordinarily such a smart guy but he really didn't do his research with his $5 wrench attack idea. Torturers don't hit people in the head with something hard. Not the ones who are any good at their job anyway. Easy way to concuss someone or have them die of shock before they tell you what you need to know.
replyJokes are hard.
reply> Torturers don't hit people in the head
replyThe comic doesn't say hit the person in the head, it says "hit him with this $5 wrench", and did not specify what to hit.
A sophisticated in-depth treatise on torture wouldn't fit neatly into a 2 panel webcomic. If you email Randall, maybe he'll make a comic just about torture for you, but either way, the $5 wrench gets the meaning across well enough. Personally, I haven't given much thought on how to torture someone into giving me information they don't want to tell but I'm grateful someone's done that work, hopefully on the side of good and not evil.
replyThe XKCD comic just said hit them, not necessarily in the head. Personally, I know I wouldn't last ten seconds with a pair of broken kneecaps.
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