Wow, it&#x27;s interesting how divergent perspective can be.<p>Just the other day I came to the conclusion bitcoin is a monitoring tool for the powerful to keep track of advances in digital security by incentivising implicit disclosure.<p>If someone cracks integer factorization or tsp and thinks bitcoin would be a great way to make some dough on the discovery it will immediately set off red flags to anyone watching.<p>If your typical nonce is found in a pool of many, but an individual suddenly starts solving blocks and banking 25btc, as of this writing, left and right you&#x27;ll know straight off that individual has compromised the entire system.<p>Putting a target on the poor rube&#x27;s back and destroying any confidence in bitcoin as a currency.<p>Perhaps this is unlikely but to put all of your trust in a system with such a huge potential to immediate failure terrifies me.<p>Who is satoshi? Maybe a three letter acronym.