On October 31, 2021, the mainstream crypto media will be abuzz with platitude-riddled nonsense about some version of “Satoshi Nakamoto” and what he gave to the world with BTC.
The very first response to Satoshi was from James Donald, and it sounds like it could have been leaked from Blockstream’s pitch deck to Mastercard.
In short, every user must run their own home node according to Donald.
Oh! And if you ever wanted to hear Satoshi Nakamoto sound a lot like Craig Wright, Nakamoto’s response to Donald contained this gem: “Only people trying to create new coins would need to run network nodes.
Solutions to the double spend problem, network governance, rule enforcement and proof of work in general were given as a perfect gift to implement a globally scalable cash system and an extremely flexible smart contract stack to boot.
About two and a half years after Satoshi’s first frustrating thread with a small blocker, he was mostly gone forever—at least by some accounts.
Apparently you didn’t configure Tor properly and your IP leaked when you used your email account sometime in 2010.
Side Note: the posts from this hacker on the P2PFoundation and SourceForge websites indicates that Satoshi may have reused passwords or stored passwords in his email—bad OPSEC that would presume hacks to come easier in the future.
Craig has admitted the help he received from various parties who worked on Bitcoin—most of whom are no longer with us, and Ian Grigg painted a question mark on the death of the most well-known among deceased Satoshi allies: Dave Kleiman.
This is unsettling enough, but Grigg also stated some of the risks of being a bitcoiner or a big blocker at all, stating, “…if you’re a friend of Satoshi, you’re marked.
That work culminated in the white paper 13 years ago today: one of the most misunderstood, maligned, misquoted and underutilized documents in the history of important ideas.
November 1 is recognized in Christendom as “All Saints Day;” the day after we mock death—a morning with a sort of resurrection as we enter a new season the day after All Hallow’s Eve.