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You don't think it strange that the guy who taught a course on blockchains at MIT has never made a transaction on a blockchain?


No. I also think a botanist could understand how plants reproduce without ever having fucked a cabbage.


I'm sure there's a kinky botanist out there somewhere who would beg to differ


That's absolutely hilarious, but a bad analogy.

Have you ever met a botanist who's never touched a plant?


you win the internet today.


You think it's strange that people who are researching cancer drugs have never taken them themselves?


No I don't think that's strange.

A better analogy might be: would you think it strange that someone teaching a C programming class has never compiled a program?


exactly.

would you think it is strange that someone who's teaching a C programming class that has never used a computer?


There is reason to believe that if he did own it directly that would be a conflict of interest. Here is a actual similar story without hyperbole since this actually happened.

'Imagine someone trying to bring a injunction against Liberty Reserve without owning any any stock in the company or having ever used their products'.

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve


The analogy doesn't work.

Everyone has money. Not everyone has cancer.

Anyone who takes cancer drugs, is doing research. There is no "cure" for cancer (yet).


Isn't the simplest explanation here that he has in fact done a transaction on a blockchain, but for whatever reason refuses to own up to it?


Exactly! And now the question becomes: why would he make such a lie before the House Financial Services Committee?




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