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WHO IS SATOSHI ? - and why should you care.
Lets start off with what we know: First the name SATOSHI NAKAMOTO
Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym used by the creator and father of the blockchain technology and bitcoin. Until this day nobody has verified who he or she is or where he or she or they are from. Satoshi is a Japanese word for wisdom or intelligence. Nakamoto is a surname used in Japan probably originating from the Edo period of history. The name used is relevant here because it means ...clarity or clear thinking. WISDOM. rational thinking. To understand who Satoshi is we need to pick apart everything. Edo or middle is the acronym for Tokyo. But why would the creator of this incredible technology use a Japanese name ?
Takeshi's castle was the hit show and brainchild of Takeshi Kitano. It was very popular all over the world but a totally stupid game. The idea was to create obstacles for a volunteer army to overcome to get into Takeshi's castle. But the funny or black part of it was to humiliate them in their efforts. Think about the blockchain ...how it works and hold that thought.
The same guy who created this crazy japanese programme on tv in the mid 80s also created a film entitled… you guessed it Zatoichi… a novel written by a guy called Kan Shimozawa. Who also happened to go to the same university as Kitano…Meiji university. The basic plot of zatoichi the film and the books is a samurai swordsman fighting for the people. ( Hold that thought)...
Tominaga Nakamoto was a Japanese philosopher . He advocated no gods or demons ie no masters and was chucked out of his academy age 15. His main tenet was… wait for it… "hiding is the beginning of lying and stealing".He ascribed to rationalist thought. He was initiated in moral education in the kataikudo… in other words honest commercial dealing. The school he was part of sought ethics in business and in all dealings. But although Satoshi is hiding ...it isn't for the wrong reasons... he is creating this system because he knows what power can do in the wrong hands...and what more powerful statement if everyone is V. That came out of the 2008 crash. The distrust of the state.
So much for his name. Could he have been Japanese ? Could he have had a specific philosophy behind creating blockchain and could he have attended Meiji university…
Or was he a middle aged geek with a passion for Japanese culture? As i know developers they downtime with stupid TV shows or do stuff like go rock climbing...but they are of a particular creed that seeks off-ball stuff... print off ball goofy t shirts... or collect off ball records from bands no body has ever heard of... they might even collect or hoard stuff for years...
I recall a friend of mine who invented the wind up radio Trevor Bayliss.. he kept everything and built a car that never went anywhere and used it to sit in and watch the river... he had pith helmets... and old things lying around for years... geeky people like the weirdest of things... like watching Takeshi's castle ... or ultra violent kung fu movies... no explanation... that's how they rest their mind and put it back into the alpha state... of the super-conscious.
Lets carry on to the next piece of information we know.
WHAT WAS THE FIRST COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION AND WHY?
The first bitcoin transaction was the delivery of two pizzas to a guy in Florida. May 22nd, 2010. A 19 year old student working for Papa Johns by the name of Jeremy Sturdivant responded to a weird request on a crypto currency forum. It said ...if he was to deliver these two pizzas he would receive 10000 bitcoins.
Which at that time had a value of 41 USD. He filled the order and delivered the pizza but later sold his bitcoin now worth millions. But who was the guy who made this request? The guy was a LASZLO HANYECZ.
The message read : “ I like things like onions, peppers, sausage , mushrooms , tomatoes , pepperoni , just standard stuff no weird fish topping or anything like that!” ; if you're interested , please let me know and we can work out a deal .”
A pizza delivery guy actually reads a forum on bitcoin… and somehow makes a complex transaction to deliver a pizza. Proving the concept.
But in another article it says a BRITISH man actually paid the coins ... that got delivered to Laszlo... That is another take on it... that means there were 3 parties... all of them on the forum... and in the background... Satoshi... releasing the coins ... to the end user. This isnt clear in the article. If that article is true ..it is further evidence pointing to satoshis nationality.
Because any new technology or innovation the first thing you have to do is to prove the concept...and herein lies our second clue. Were these two random nerds … or part of the conspiracy ? Another quote of the same event goes “ Hey y'all, I'm starved right now but I don't have any cash and my bank account is at zero until payday. I have plenty of BTC I can trade, though, if someone would be willing to order a pizza online and have it sent to my address.” How was this transaction made and was it in any way connected with the originator of bitcoin…? If i had these online tokens … how would I order a pizza with it? … simple answer… BARTER.
The forum was called bitcointalk.org which was created by Satoshi himself. The first post was in November of 2009. The website bitcoin.org is listed on the whitepaper. But to get into the mind of the creator we will have to go into both the whitepaper and the forum.
We know he was in this forum until at least July of 2010. By this time the code had been developed and tested… the concept worked. This was the first commercial transaction but not the first actual transaction.
The first actual transaction was to HAL FINNEY on the 12th January 2009 just a week after the release of the open source software which enabled the mining of bitcoin.
After mining around 1 million coins or so … he disappeared. It is important to note that HAL was the creator of the proof of work concept in 2004( which was also created in a similar way by ADAM BACK in 97. Lets look at Hals life a bit more...Hal Finney was an american born in the 50's and probably a peer to Satoshi. He received the first 10 coins from satoshi himself… and why? Why and what did he believe..what was his ethos?
HAL FINNEY said “ It seemed so obvious to me: "Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization - and [David] Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them."... essentially this is anarchism in its purest form Decentralisation. It is interesting that SATOSHI himself lived or purportedly lived in TEMPLE CITY LOS ANGELES… THE SAME CITY that HAL lived in…( again hold that thought for a second)... moving on…
Let's go deeper … David Chaum got his education in California too. Berkeley. He is credited with inventing secure digital cash way back in 1983 and his system does everything that bitcoin does… except show proof of work which Hal solved in 2004.
It is odd that I also wrote a paper of what I called an international credit system I called the PORTATELLER it looked like what we call today a smart phone but performed financial transaction with a NFT and or digital pin. It was a mobile banking system. I got the idea on the back of a truck travelling through South Sudan to Khartoum whilst reading the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy … by Douglas Adams and the Iliad by homer. You see an idea isn't owned by any one person. Nobody has proprietary over it. I patented my digicash system I called the Portateller in the early 80s with John & Kernick Attorneys in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Later I travelled to Los Angeles in 1984 and stayed there in and out of the country until 1987. Ideas travel and are captured in the ether by how we listen. (But I digress)...
HAL and David were cypherpunks… defined as A cypherpunk is any individual advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change. Originally communicating through the Cypherpunks electronic mailing list, informal groups aimed to achieve privacy and security through proactive use of cryptography. Cypherpunks have been engaged in an active movement since at least the late 1980s.
The basic ideas can be found in A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (Eric Hughes, 1993): "Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. ... We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy ... We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. ... Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and ... we're going to write it."
The inventor or innovator of bitcoin… is a decentralist cypherpunk or pan anarchist.
( and I will show this conclusively). Understand the ethos of the man and you will understand the man.
SO WHAT HAPPENED IN 2008?
The banks collapsed. The people got screwed over again. People lost their houses and cars and were bankrupt… but no bankers went to jail. Not one. At least in America. These criminal got the taxpayers to bail out the banks. On September 11th 2008 a day I recall well … the worlds biggest stockmarkets crashed. I was on that same day indisposed. In fact my whole life was destroyed... it was a calamity... I spent the next 3 and a half years fighting for my family and for justice… finally achieving it in 2012. But during this time... I worked out everything I could in my head about this new currency that was to be born on the 3rd of January.
In the mean time Satoshi issued his whitepaper, proved the concept and disappeared with over 1 million bitcoins… by the way..what is a bit?
A bit means binary digit or bit. It is the minimum amount of memory used in any code in fact in my first book UNIVERSAL CONCEPTS (never published) I postulated that it isn't just 1's and 0's but also 0.0 s meaning clarity of thought. Our bitcoin or international credit system can be quantified as memory. Its code but what is code? one day we will get to quantum ...but were not ready yet for it. Probably in about 20 or 30 years. We still have some way to go...lets hope we don't screw it all up before then. By the way..bitcoin can survive a nuclear meltdown. or a giant solar flash... don't ask me how..but apparently it can.. making it better than the money in your bank.
In 2008 we began to wake up and smell the coffee. What David and Hal had worked on already for decades was like Steve Jobs inventing the smart phone… which he actually did not. He INNOVATED it. It was a touch screen and a phone..both invented by Nokia. But Steve put the two together. He INNOVATED IT. And that is what Satoshi did. He put proof of work and the binary concept of digital information into the genesis block and mined the first block of the blockchain… a breakthrough. And to make this point of 2008 go in… he digitally signed it… “On 3 January 2009, the bitcoin network was created when Nakamoto mined the starting block of the chain, known as the genesis block.
Embedded in the coinbase of this block was the text "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks".This note references a headline published by The Times and has been interpreted as both a timestamp and a comment on the instability caused by fractional-reserve banking.
This is another important FACT in uncovering the mysterious identity of the originator of bitcoin. It continues and is important enough for Satoshi to stress it in the genesis block… “Alistair Darling has been forced to consider a second bailout for banks as the lending drought worsens.” It shows conclusively that fiat money is guaranteed by central banks in partnership with centralized governance to stabilize the economy. It means that in reality ...money is just a bunch of numbers on a computer screen issued from thin air and guaranteed by the word of that head of state.
In this case Satoshi doesn't quote an american newspaper but a conservative newspaper which is mostly read by people who reside in the UK. It is owned in large part by Rupert Murdoch of News Corp.
The birth of a movement following the 2008 crash
Following the crash things started moving all around the world and movements like Occupy and the indignados and the arab spring and julian assange's wikileaks.
And general distaste of austerity measures implemented as a result of being forced to pick up the tab for the greed and folly of the banking institutions in the United States and elsewhere.
It was a time and a place intersecting and ripe for a decentralized self governing economic system of digital cash.. A replacement for the instability of inflationary money. In the bitcoin system it was deflationary as only 21 million would ever exist therefore the value could only go up. As money could not materialise from thin air despite this binary digital money being in thin air… it was controlled by algorithms and formulas. And as time went by it just got more and more valuable and proved it was unhackable and incorruptible.
It was the birth of a new self empowerment culture where anyone could trade with anyone and the vision of Satoshi which is clearly in his cypher … would become a reality… and here we are 12 years later and one bitcoin is worth 55 000 dollars. In 2012 when I was introduced to it by programmer Bruno Moroni it was only 12 USD.
Who would have thought the best protest against a hegemony of power and economy would be a currency of based on anarcho capitalism.
The PROBLEM is that it has become anarcho capitalism on STEROIDS!
( Satoshi couldn't think of everything... he was concerned with the technology and he has since been working on keeping that technology decentralised... unfortunately the cat is already out of the bag.. and everyone is on the band wagon... and out of all the chaos ..big money will develop something far superior to bitcoin... and again.. centralise it..like they did with the internet. But until then... everybody can still get a piece of the pie.
Another significant player in this was a guy called GAVIN ANDRESEN a programmer who graduated computer engineering at Princeton University in 1988 and was given the key to continue developing bitcoin when Satoshi disappeared…
He too worked in silicon valley and as I know this community ...everyone knows or has met everyone in their field. HAL and DAVID… and GAVIN would have known each other over their working career.
SOME OTHER CONTENDERS TO THE THRONE
I am quoting directly from wikipedia here for later reference.
Dorian Nakamoto
The most notorious speculation to date occurred on March 6, 2014. In a Newsweek magazine article , journalist Leah McGrath Goodman identified Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese-American man who lives in California and whose birth name is Satoshi Nakamoto. In addition to its name, Goodman noted a number of indications suggesting that it was the inventor of Bitcoin. 32With a background in physics, Nakamoto worked as a systems engineer on confidential defense projects and as a computer engineer for financial information and technology companies. According to his daughter, Nakamoto was fired twice in the 1990s and became a libertarian , encouraging her to start her own business and "not be under the thumb of the government." The most relevant piece of evidence in the article came from the revelation that Nakamoto appeared to confirm his identity as the Bitcoin founder during a short interview with Goodman, saying, 'I am no longer involved in that and cannot discuss it. It has been given to other people. They take care of that now. I no longer have any connection. (Deputies at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who were present there confirmed this quote.)
The publication of the article sparked a flurry of media interest, including reporters camping out near Dorian Nakamoto's home and the subsequent car chase while on his way to an interview.
However, during that detailed interview, Dorian Nakamoto denied any connection to Bitcoin, saying that he had never heard of the currency before, and that he had misinterpreted Goodman's question believing it referred to his previous work for military contractors, many of which were of a reserved nature. Later that day, Nakamoto's pseudonymous account at the P2P Foundation posted his first message in five years, stating: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."
THAT TELLS US ONE THING..SATOSHI WHOEVER HE SHE OR IT IS ..WAS ALIVE IN 2014.
2. Nick Szabo In December 2013, a blogger named Skye Gris linked Nick Szabo to the Bitcoin white paper using linguistic analysis. Szabo is a fan decentralized currency and published a paper on "bit gold," which is considered a precursor of Bitcoin.It is also known that he used pseudonyms during the 1990s
In an article in May 2011, Szabo said about the creator Bitcoin: "I myself, Wei Dai and Hal Finney. We were the only people I know who liked the idea enough to work on it in a meaningful way until Nakamoto arrived (assuming Nakamoto isn't really Finney or Dai). " In his book, Bitcoin: The Future of Money ?, and in The Keizer Report, author and investigative journalist Dominic Frisby also states that he is fairly certain that Nick Szabo is Satoshi Nakamoto.
He commented in The Keizer Report: "I have come to the conclusion that there is only one person in the whole world who has, not only the enormous aptitude, but also the specificity of knowledge, and it is this boy."
3. WEI DAI : Wei Dai and Adam Back were the first two people contacted by Satoshi Nakamoto as he was developing Bitcoin in 2008 and the b-money paper was referenced in the subsequent Bitcoin whitepaper.
Who was or is WEI DAI and where does he live or work?
Dai graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in computer science[2] and is described as an "intensely private computer engineer".Wei Dai was member of the Cypherpunks, Extropians, and SL4 mailing lists in the 1990s. On SL4 he exchanged with people such as Eliezer Yudkowsky, Robin Hanson, Nick Bostrom, and others in the nascent "rationalist" community.
Note that this community is small and the word rationalist is the connecting word in the name nakamoto. Dai also created the basis of the bitcoin whitepaper … with his ideals similar to satoshi. In B MONEY he states it is...
Described as "money which is impossible to regulate", Dai's b-money described the core concepts later implemented in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies:
Requires a specified amount of computational work (aka Proof of work).
The work done is verified by the community who update a collective ledger book.
The worker is awarded funds for their effort.
Exchange of funds is accomplished by collective bookkeeping and authenticated with cryptographic hashes.
Contracts are enforced through the broadcast and signing of transactions with digital signatures (i.e., public key cryptography).
4. ADAM BACK
Adam Back (born July 1970) is a British cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is the CEO of Blockstream, which he co-founded in 2014. He invented Hashcash, which is used in the Bitcoin mining process. Adam was one of the two first people contacted by satoshi by email.
Back was born in London, England, in July 1970. His first computer was a Sinclair ZX81. He taught himself Basic, and spent his time reverse engineering video games, finding decryption keys in software packages. He completed his A levels in advanced mathematics, physics and economics.
He has a computer science PhD in distributed systems from the University of Exeter.
“You can go lobby all you want but what ultimately changes the game is deployment of technology.”
Adam Back’s Hashcash, invented in 1997, is a proof-of-work system used by Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as part of the mining algorithm.
Could he be the mysterious Satoshi? What is he doing now ? Adam is the CEO of BLOCKSTEAM.COM based in Victoria, Canada. He makes amongst other things software for Japan. He also has created a system of payments for the unbanked. Interesting… ( hold that thought..well come back to it shortly)
Using the Lightning Network as a means of payment, Blockstream Satellite provides a low-cost file transmission service where anyone may transmit data on its global broadcast satellite network with the important property that receivers are completely untraceable, providing an unrivaled level of privacy that is simply not achievable over conventional networks such as the Internet. The service requires no special hardware and is fully compatible with existing equipment for watching satellite TV on computers.
Not only that he has devised technology to reach the 70 % of the world unbanked who do not have access to the internet… interesting. In 2017 Blockstream announced the availability of one-way satellite broadcasting of the full Bitcoin blockchain to enable the propagation of valid bitcoin transactions to people without Internet access or during a disruption event like an Internet blackout.
The plot thickens.
‘But for users I think an interesting concept is the true name concept. So there’s a science fiction book by Vernor Vinge called True Names. And it’s basically the concept that if somebody knows your name, they have some kind of power over you. Where if you’re kind of obscure, nobody knows who you are, or that you have an involvement in Bitcoin or that you’re involved in some online discussion group about politics, or current events or what have you, then you’re much more immune to interference.’ ADAM BACK
5.Hal Finney
Hal Finney (May 4, 1956 - August 28, 2014) was a pre-Bitcoin crypto pioneer and the first person (other than Satoshi himself) to use the software , report bug reports, and develop improvements. He also lived a few blocks from Dorian Nakamoto's family home, according to Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg. Greenberg requested the comparison of two writing samples from Finney and Satoshi Nakamoto from the writing analysis consultancy Juola & Associates. It was found to be the closest resemblance to date, outperforming the candidates suggested by Newsweek, Fast Company, The New Yorker, Ted Nelson, and Skye Gray.
Greenberg theorized that Finney may have been a ghostwriter representing Nakamoto, or that he simply used the identity of his neighbor Dorian as a distraction to hide actions on the network. However, after meeting with Finney, and reviewing the emails between him and Satoshi, the history of his Bitcoin wallet from Satoshi's first transaction to him, and hearing his denial, Greenberg concluded that Finney was telling the truth. Juola & Associates also determined that Satoshi's emails to Finney more closely resembled Satoshi's other writings than Finney's own. His partner Robin Hanson assigned a subjective probability of "at least" 15% that "Hal was more involved" than he claimed, although additional evidence was later found to suggest that this was not true.
Finney died of a protracted illness in 2014 . He claims however that all his savings incl bitcoin went for his medical treatment. It is unusual however that the email about the Nakamoto living in the same suburb came out around this time...
He used all or most of his bitcoins to pay for medical treatment and had no reason to lie about not being SATOSHI.
Unless his family were threatened.
“There is a saying that we are all Satoshi. The idea itself is important to create a fairer, better monetary system that is decentralized, independent of banks and states. This is exactly what the face of the statue symbolizes: it will be reflected so that whoever looks at it will see his own reflection in it.” Said by Andrà s Györfi
6. CRAIG WRIGHT :
On 2 May 2016, the BBC and The Economist published articles claiming that Wright had digitally signed messages using cryptographic keys created during the early days of bitcoin's development. The keys are inextricably linked to blocks of bitcoins known to have been created or "mined" by Satoshi Nakamoto.The same day a blog post on the website www.drcraigwright.net associated Wright with Satoshi and posted a message with a cryptographic signature attached.Security researcher Dan Kaminsky said in his blog that Wright's claim was a scam and bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik agreed that evidence publicly provided by Wright does not prove anything Jordan Pearson and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai said that, "Wright simply reused an old signature from a bitcoin transaction performed in 2009 by Satoshi."
THE WHITEPAPER
1. Whoever wrote this 11 page document technically knew his stuff. The person was educated to university level or had comprehensive information regarding coding and computer science, possibly applied mathematics and physics.
2. It is written in the same format one would write a doctorate or thesis at university level. The references are last.
3. Diagrams are professionally and simply done to illustrate concepts.
4. He quotes Adam Backs and indeed builds on it using him in the third person.
5. On page 7 we see his choice of words that simulates the strategist in Takeshi's castle and indeed the rationalist promoting ethics of Nakamoto. ie the attacker vs the defender invoking the image of Takeshis castle.. this is all it takes to inspire a genius. Its a subconscious level.
6. On page four Satoshi makes a clear distinction between American and British English using the British spelling of “ favour” … ( Not enough to hang him yet… but wait for it...I"m getting there)
7. Under the heading incentives he mentions … transaction tax. This was also in my vision of the international credit system I invented to enable taxation for public services. Its logical this is the way it should go. Understanding economics as well as being able to code is necessary to pull this off. In fact it is the only way forward... otherwise governments will lose all power to govern. In a conference in 1996 when I met the Dalai Lama in Budapest this was the same conclusion we all came to... a 1% transaction tax will abolish ALL poverty in the world. Any global currency has to include this model and it has to be charged on the receivers account not the sender..very important for trade. But if its universal it could also work sales and purchases... so the sender pays and the receiver pays..that could also work as long as its not double taxed. Our party is more in favor of a purchase tax.
8. Satoshi's system favors the Adam Back hashcash system( And that is the one it uses to mine bitcoin) … he clearly cites it as his basis for creating the blockchain as proof of payment.
9. Finally , his use of words and grammar points to either an anglophile or someone who is well versed in the English language. Not American. Eg using the word.. “ mint” page 2. Americans would say something like the fed or the treasury. Or they would use it as a noun. Not a verb. They could also say...issue.
10. In other emails and in the genesis block we see clear evidence that the writer is British not American. Adam has an economics background and all the necessary tools to create and to innovate this blockchain. But remember .. we are not all perfect.. we need others. Like ROB helped TIM with the compilers...
HAL coded and improved the original bitcoin code... HAL was probably better at it than Satoshi... or ADAM.. or WEI. Finally, from all the emails published the only ones that have not been published are from Satoshi to ADAM. And I know why.
ZORRO DE LA VEGA -Champion of the People
I would do the same if I knew who Satoshi was and what he represents to everyone.
Keep the mystery..like a Banksy. People love it..like ZORRO. Looking at the idea of pseudonomy as opposed to ANONYMITY like V like ROBIN HOOD... its us putting ourselves into the anonymous character.. BATMAN... SUPERMAN.. etc. We can pick up certain clues of language, grammar and style and even spelling... which indicate to us who , what and how old that person is to a degree. Even their gender. Its possible. Its all indicative and forms the supporting evidence which makes in more than circumstantial.
10. The whole paper is written by I believe one person. And that person is British. Not someone from Australia or Japan or America unless whoever designed this designed it as a throw off to make us think its British. It is written by someone intelligent enough to have done it before and tested it before and able to put different things together in an innovative way.
Conclusions
1.The person who wrote this paper did so without error. It is written in perfect English with two distinctions of grammar and language that is not often used … for example.. Joining the words "breakeven"… as in "break" and "even"… and more pointedly on page 5 the words “standalone” joined together… instead of “stand alone”although the latter is slightly odd in its sausage...its not incorrect.
The person writing this has a high level of English.
Not only that but of algebraic mathematics, computer science and coding not to mention an understanding of economics and banking.
2. Behind his concept of defense and attack is the Takeshi castle idea… its easy to see this. His choice of name means he is ethical. Moral. Just. Rational. He really is doing what he is doing for the greater good of humankind.
3. The man is also a bit of a rebel. A cypherpunk who hides behind a name to retain anonymity. That is his defense. He doesnt want to be lauded as the creator of this new technology despite everything inside him screaming… It was me… I did it. He wants to watch his baby grow up and like a good parent he wants to facilitate it to its goal which is to reach the world and create a new kind of money that bypasses the greedy pigs and dictators and uses their own greed to overcome them. There is a bit of anarchist rebel in the amn that really wants to put two fingers up to the establishment. That's why I believe the creator is British.
4. Imagine you created bitcoin. You were rich. Enough money to never do anything for the rest of your life… what would you do ?
This guy actually believes in what he's doing. He is already doing it. And his secret weapon is privacy..exactly what he's fighting for. Imagine the constant harassment by reporters… kidnappers… etc he would need bodyguards all the time.. He would never feel truly free… and besides… imagine he actually didn't need the money?
Remember the open source community is like that... its a project that is worked on collectively. SATOSHI however ..before he disappeared mined 1 million coins for himself..for a rainy day... and coincidentally it coincides with the movements of some of the people mentioned here... It may also be that one day SATOSHI might reveal himself... but until then ... we can safely say ... we know who is Satoshi. And even if he dumps those million coins..and says goodbye to his child... bitcoin will still stand on its own two feet. Blockchain tek is here... now it needs to get out to the people in AFRICA... and that is what will happen soon.
Or the control. But was able to fake his own death and handed the reins to someone else in the community that he knew would continue with the vision… make no mistake, bitcoin was created by one man but it was also a collaboration of minds working together that created the outcome. The fakers and charlatans have come and gone over the years… but this baby has become a child and the child is walking and talking and now its a teenager… its survived… its robust…and now with the new technology about to be rolled out … suddenly...he's in an even bigger position to take advantage of universal adoption and the s curve … which is about to happen soon…
STOP… let's wait for a minute … and look at another theory…
The other possibility is that all of this was an NSA or DARPA project…
DARPA … DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY
The Agency, under the control of the Department of Defense, will be organized independently of the military research and development community. Her mission over the next few decades will lead her to develop and provide unconventional technological applications for the defense of the United States, expanding the technological frontier in favor of a reduced number, but flexible, free of constraints and staffed by elite scientists. ARPA will be responsible for much of the innovative computer and communications research in the US over the next several years.
NSA : National Security Agency :
The agency is dedicated to maintaining the security of the systems of the American state. The operations of the NSA have been the subject of criticism and controversy after discovering the espionage and surveillance to which it subjected prominent figures in the protests against the Vietnam War and its economic espionage and various leaders. The program documents secret surveillance brought to light by Edward Snowden in 2013 showed that the NSA intercepts communications around one billion people worldwide and monitors communications of mobile phones of hundreds of millions of people, situating it as one of the main people in charge of the mass surveillance network . In the United States, collects and stores the call records of all Americans.
What's more...this nefarious organisation not only collaborates with the so called 5 Eyes club...it employs a helluva lotta people to do secret shit...like crypto transactions that solve america's problems… of transferring large amounts of cahs across continents… so yes… crypto is good for the good guys and the bad guys and right now the line is pretty blurred in the global surveillance state…
The Office of Operations Individualized access (known by the acronym TAO of the English Tailored Access Operations), created in 1997 and belonging to the NSA, its mission is to gather information on foreign targets by sneaking into their computers and telecommunications systems, decrypting passwords, disarming the computer security systems that protect them, stealing stored data, monitoring the data traffic… The TAO is also responsible for developing the techniques that would allow the Cybercommand to carry out its functions, focusing its objectives on the basis of the information collected by the entire NSA. It appears that the TAO is today the largest department dedicated to SIGINT in the NSA. It is made up of more than 1000 hackers, information analysts, target selection specialists, computer and program designers, and electrical engineers, both civilian and military.
ETHOS
The internet was created to be a decentralized information platform to empower and enlighten the world from darkness and ignorance. To make things better for all of us.
The HOLY GRAIL of global electronic currency achieved by the breakthrough of the blockchain is a result of many minds collectively working together as it was with the hyper link. It wasnt just one man. We say it was but in truth it wasnt. The compilers were done by a friend of mine by the name of ROB. His ethos came from the grateful dead concerts and particularly from the rainbow gatherings. The blockchain when it first came out had to be re-coded and hard forked. The concept for these things takes years. Finney and Back did part of it... Chaum the other...but they were all for privacy and all for the right to remain private. They realised big tech and big government would use this tool like the internet to centralise authority and DISempower the people as we are seeing with google and facebook now and their censorship stories. This was NEVER the intention of the pioneers of the internet. NEVER.
So this was really well thought out by the Wizard of Oz ...he didn't want Dorothy opening the curtain ...he wanted people in the poorest regions of the world to dream of a better life for their children free of the dictates and the dictators of religions and political ideologies... he wanted freedom for the people...and that is what true anarchy or pan anarchy truly is. Decentralisation is good when it empowers and bad when it disempowers.
Now there is a chance for everyone..
so why say... it was me... why say..I DID it for the money? for the power? for the fame" for the legacy" ? No. It was a gift to all of us to receive and to use... and remember..this new digital economy of money is just beginning. We are only 10 years in..we are in the year 1999. We still have 20 years of growth that will revolutionise the entire world. The blockchain is almost like inventing the wheel and as important as inventing the hyper link... and the smart phone. It is only a matter of time when the 70% of the worlds unbanked will have a chance to save and use their money without greedy banksters and wall street wankers ... and centralised dictators ... we don't need a demon-cratic dictatorships anymore...
We need a REAL freedom where the people in power listen to the people they govern. And we do that with our money.
OUR VOICE.... and our sovereignty!
That is the ethos of the man behind the mask... or the woman... yes... by now you may have some suspicions who this person is... but keep it to yourself...
… YES… I've worked it out. I know who Satoshi is… but you know what… I am a believer in his right to privacy… and I m not going to tell you … BUT… IF YOU REALLY REALLY WANNA KNOW… read through this blog again and come and attend on or off line the next CRYPTO MONDAYS CLUB …
and the secret will be revealed…ONE TIME ONLY !!!
WHO IS SATOSHI?
WE ARE ALL SATOSHI!
WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR...
THE FUTURE IS TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY AND TO EMPOWER THE DISENFRANCHISED BY A SOVEREIGN , AUTONOMOUS AND DECENTRALIZED ECONOMY. AND THE FUTURE IS A RAINBOW!
I thank you
ASLAN LA VEGA
PS The BIG problem is when BIG money starts investing and pushing the prices up... that is our challenge..to make sure...EVERYONE benefits form this new economy.. and to that end... Satoshi will be creating a new coin soon. One that will be able to benefit ALL of humanity..not the 1 percent.AWOOSHA!
https://bitcoin-takeover.com/dear-barely-sociable-heres-why-adam-back-isnt-satoshi-nakamoto-video/
https://bernardmarr.com/what-is-the-difference-between-blockchain-and-bitcoin/
https://youtu.be/XfcvX0P1b5g
https://www.managingip.com/article/b1kcgtthrvp6r7/john-kernick
https://hrf.org/devfund ( for human rights )
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cypherpunk-manifesto.txt
welcomehome.org ( oldest running website on the net)
HERE IS THE MANIFESTO OF THE CYPHER PUNK
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world. If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to. Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must _always_ reveal myself. Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy. Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature. We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor. We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do. We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money. Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down. Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible. For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals. The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace. Onward. Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu> 9 March 1993
FINAL NAIL...
FROM INVESTOPEDIA...
A British man took up Hanyecz's offer and bought the two pizzas for him in exchange for the 10,000 Bitcoins. Even then the recipient of the Bitcoins got himself a bargain, paying $25 for the pizzas, while 10,000 Bitcoins were worth around $41 at the time.
Was it British or American... or all three?
https://www.investopedia.com/news/bitcoin-pizza-day-celebrating-20-million-pizza-order/
Even if this is bad reporting... the forum was the source of this chatter and all parties would have seen it. Its strange however that a respected journalist would make this Freudian error. There is evidence that the guy who delivered the pizza was actually working there and had a connection with the bit chat forum. This is the only article I could find that mentioned a British man...
