It's not only about stats/data, but also the user experience. Many web pages have many more ads, videos, gifs, and clutter than they did before. There's also more spam and more low-quality content. That makes finding the info that you want harder than before. I've noticed this especially when searching for cooking recipes online.
I don't have a good answer here, but I believe it may be instructive to consider externalities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality). For instance, think carefully about how they may apply here.
I've researched this for a long time; for many reasons, I believe it's him. He never cryptographically signed anything, so the lack of signature actually weighs in favor of the message's authenticity -- not against it.
"Something I only recently realised is that Satoshi's apparent policy(1)
of never making any cryptographically secure signatures to link together
his posts - or indeed any communication at all - fits well with the
avoidance of creating a central authority figure.
...
As you've often said, the biggest achievement by Satoshi in the creation
of Bitcoin was to create a system where the identity of the creator is a
mere historical footnote. We can probably go further, and state that
while doing so, Satoshi quite counter-intuitively took steps to avoid
even creating a pseudoanonymous identity."
- Peter Todd, https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015...
And of course, the most important sentence is from Satoshi's message itself:
"Bitcoin was designed to be protected from the influence of charismatic leaders, even if their name is Gavin Andresen, Barack Obama, or Satoshi Nakamoto."
So whether it's Satoshi or not, it doesn't matter; Bitcoin was intended to transcend even Satoshi's own influence.
It's just his opinion. His opinion is that Bitcoin should be a single, unified, consensus-driven project - that's what trust in the network is built on. Without people following the same protocol, Bitcoin doesn't work.
> Interviews are weird: the pressure of time, and not being able to look things up, distorts the code.
In the interviews I do, I tell the candidate that:
1. There is no time pressure. Work at a normal pace, as if you were working here. This is not a speed test. I don't expect you to finish. I mainly want to know how you think.
2. You should look things up. Behave the same way you would when coding at home. Use Google, Stack Overflow, documentation, etc.
This probably works better for the interviews I give because the problem is not implementing an existing algorithm. It's a realistic task, something that we've actually built on-the-job.
Technically, Bitcoin transactions are not anonymous; they're typically pseudonymous. Braintree requires buyers to use a Coinbase wallet. There are many reasons for this, but refunds is one of them. We enable merchants to easily issue refunds and have a cohesive experience in the Braintree Control Panel, with bitcoin alongside other payment methods like credit cards, Venmo, and Apple Pay. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Agreed, except that we shouldn't ignore network effects. Drivers go for one smartphone-ride-sharing-app over another because it has more riders, and riders likewise: because it has more drivers. That can be very hard to shake.