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    He has also co-authored scores of academic papers on a diverse range of research fields, including cryptography, systems security, and data privacy, including the protection of human genomic data.

    I want to dream that it was either foreign actor involvement or he cracked something big like a cryptocurrency

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          That’s not even the first guy who named both cryptocurrency and cryptography in the same comment, my guy

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          I think you misread my comment, I didn’t mention cryptography, I only mentioned cryptocurrency.

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          And it’s been around for 17 years now so if it’s a Ponzi scheme it’s one of the most amazingly long-running ones ever.

          People are free to dislike cryptocurrency and to not use it, but they should at least recognize that there are people who do use it and who do like it.

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            Thank you for stating the obvious, please qoute me where I mention that people can’t use or like it.