James A. Donald (the first guy to reply to Satoshi Nakamoto on the cryptography mailing list)

was also the first small blocker

On November 3rd 2008, he wrote:

“But I think we need to concern ourselves with minimizing the data and bandwidth required by money transmitters […]

The smaller the data storage and bandwidth required for money issuers, the more resistant the system is”

He’s the same guy who told Satoshi Nakamoto that Bitcoin doesn’t scale – to which Satoshi replied that most users will transact using SPV while bandwidth and storage will become cheaper over time.

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When guest on podcast ?

Exactly 👀

Not good enough. We need 256kb blocks. 😉

Haha nice find.

He talks about his obsession of lowering bandwith as a consequence of being an old timer in this interview.

In fact he mentions that his brain could just not comprehend that bandwith would not be a constraint in 2008.

https://www.ofnumbers.com/2018/10/01/interview-with-ray-dillinger/

Gdam it, I have mistake Ray Dillinger with James A. Donald 😅

Seems I can not delete the incorect note I made.

Money transmitters?

Money issuers?

This guy was a fed. 😅

He means “miners”. This was 2008, the language related to Bitcoin hadn’t been standardized.

I'm sure he meant node operators, mining wasn't a separate thing back then.

Still, very odd, specific, wording that has legal connotations today.

Very likely this person had already dealt with or had heard about regulators shutting down previous projects and therefore used similar language used to describe those projects.

Yup, he was familiar with Liberty Dollar and E-gold