Mongo found a background radiation flaw in a silicon chip substrate that led to problems with Intel's Pentium maths operations. As Intel chief scientist he was well rewarded for this and retired early.
In his first year off he read SF sitting on a beach. Unfortunately, he included Ayn Rand.
This helps explain part of why he got the science and technicalities of crypto-anarchy mostly right and the politics mostly wrong. Though he did pander to Heinlein who was close to FDR politically.
Another glaring problem was he resembled Shockley in being steeped in virulent Marxist-style racism.
Its an ugly planet where such rotten creeps like this ( Charlie Kirk, John Cryptome Young and so on ) keep trying to channel the RAHOWA project of Charlie Manson. Thankfully cryptoanarchy need never be influenced by this - much like modern anarchism itself dates from the seriously flawed Proudhon.
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