[svat]

Awesome story! And all this before 28…

Though not a contender for “greatest counterfeiter”, there is also William Chaloner (1650–1699), who had a similar idea (“the safest place from which to pass his money was the Mint itself”), and did battle with Sir Isaac Newton. There's a great book about this called Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson; I wrote a blog post about it some years ago, with the subtitle “What happens when Newton’s laws are violated”: https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/dont-mess-with-a... (aside: the free wordpress.com hosting injects lots of ads these days sadly)

[dang]

Related ongoing thread:

Don’t mess with a genius (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37501231 - Sept 2023 (49 comments)

[123pie123]

wow fantastic read, as good if not better then the main story(because it's bloody Isaac Newton doing this!! )

I'm surprised there's not a movie out based on this story

[more_corn]

I would watch the heck out of this Netflix series. Way better than Sherlock Holmes.

[darkclouds]

So where would Satoshi Nakamoto sit in the scheme of things considering the total value of crypto currency?

[block_dagger]

Inventing a financial system that is voluntarily adopted internationally is not counterfeiting. In fact, Satoshi invented the first currency impossible to counterfeit (barring 51% attack).

[darkclouds]

Anything man made can be counterfeited, and ultimately the threat of violence is what deters those that have the resources to counterfeit.

The philosophy of Injin, The Man, The Legend

[flangola7]

Presumably a "-$1" with many zeroes behind it.