[junippor]

No, just because he's a billionaire doesn't mean any of those things.

It's just that Bill Gates is legendary for the amounts he reads and his recall ability, and his contributions to many topics outside of just managing MS (state of the art algorithms, erradictinc malaria, nuclear energy etc). I thought everyone knew this, but apparently not. So you can see how funny it is when a random guy on HN says "just because he's a billionaire" :D

[nelsontodd]

Fair enough. But for every bill gates we can find a mark cuban, michael saylor etc who are extremely excited about bitcoin. So I still think it is uninteresting.

[junippor]

Moving the goal posts.

First you said "Just because Bill Gates is a billionaire, doesn't mean he knows what he's talking about"

Now that you've learned that most likely he DOES know what he's talking about, you changed your argument to "Other people think other things, so it's uninteresting" (What? WE're not talking about random people here.)

Lets just say it: you already arrived at the conclusion you want, now you're grasping for arguments to support it.

[nelsontodd]

I conceded the point that he hasn't looked into it with 'fair enough' lol. Regardless, informed is relative. I don't think Bill Gates knows more on bitcoin than I do. His status as an authority figure is uninteresting, because we can find many authority figures that disagree with him.