Brontoforumus

“Bitcoin actually started as a way for the tiny passengers on my model trains to purchase refreshments from the eensy-weensy snack cart in Car Seven,” Nakamoto explained, chuckling self-deprecatingly. “I had no idea that it would become such a force of its own.”

TA wrote:Turns out he's not this amazing young tech messiah, he's a grumpy 64-year-old model train weirdo who just wanted a way to order more trains from England without paying wire transfer fees.

As [Newsweek reporter Leah McGrath] Goodman wrote, "Ilene Mitchell says she isn't surprised her father would choose to stay under cover if he was the man behind this venture, especially as he is currently concerned about his health. 'He is very wary of government interference in general,' she says. 'When I was little, there was a game we used to play. He would say, 'Pretend the government agencies are coming after you.' And I would hide in the closet.'"

I think the whole idea of proof-of-work is rather horrible in that we have millions of dollars being spent on computing things for no real benefit, just competing against each other. In an economic sense, this is incredibly wasteful. It’s like the Olympics without the entertainment value.