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Bitcoin's origin: is this all one big NSA/CIA pet project gone awry?
152 sats \ 8 comments \ @_stacktoshi 20 Jan 2024 bitcoin
I was at a meetup last night where I was the most knowledgable on bitcoin (not saying much) and someone there who has high school friends who supposedly work for the CIA found it very strange that when he brought up the this story chatting with them, mum was the word, and he typically doesn't have an issue getting them to comment on other sensitive topics, but I guess those topics mostly involve what's already in the news. Then the conversation devolved into possible motives of the state such as buying drugs, arms, etc. and then if not them, who? ...Craig Wright not being able to move Satoshi's utxos, yadda yadda.
I'll admit that "Tatsuaki Okamoto" sounds a bit like "Satoshi Nakamoto" and that '96 paper shared a few concepts with the Bitcoin whitepaper (so did a lot of other independent research over that decade), but it's going to take a lot more than a single paper, so whatcha all got?
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20 sats \ 5 replies \ @harrr 20 Jan 2024
Don't care. Adolf Hitler and Stalin could have made bitcoin together, I wouldn't give a shit. All that matters is what bitcoin is.
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @_stacktoshi OP 20 Jan 2024
That's like saying you don't care if influential people call bitcoin fascist money. There's a social layer around this tool that has a direct affect its utility, right?
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @harrr 20 Jan 2024
influential people
Please don't be a sheep, make up your own mind. Also, when you've been around bitcoin for long enough you've heard people say anything about it.
There's a social layer around this tool that has a direct affect its utility, right?
Social layer? Is bitcoin less useful because some people says it boils the oceans? Maybe, who cares, those people will pay higher prices when they finally understand bitcoin.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @_stacktoshi OP 20 Jan 2024
Please don't be a sheep, make up your own mind.
I've made up my mind. Unfortunately, there are people who have guns (financed by millions of sheep) that don't like this thing and might decide to use those guns to prevent us from using it. Influence can turn into force quite easily. There's a reason why anarcho-capitalism hasn't exactly taken off and people are still being oppressed the world over.
Social layer?
Yes. This tool serves a social purpose. You don't send bitcoin to yourself, do you?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @harrr 21 Jan 2024
there are people who have guns
Guns can't stop my transactions. That's the "censorship resistant" part. Anyway, it's your choice to live in fear or things that are out of your control, or to not give a fuck.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @987654321 20 Jan 2024
The saying goes, "If you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
The people who say that could not hit a nail without hitting their fingernail because they have no practical experience. Yet those people have the wisdom to judge a tool based on their perception of the users. Meanwhile they pedantically peruse the proletariat from institutions built by men with hammers. The gavel is a hammer, too! Who is judging, harnessing and trapping who?
Satoshi is the persona of Satori which gets its name from the Sanskrit word for truth. Satori is the awakening from the Zen koan. The Genesis Block is the number 7 "G" and it's the Generative principal with which the masculine and feminine come together and bear a male child that explores. This is the obelisk or the lingum or the Oracle of Delphi. Know thyself before entering.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @987654321 20 Jan 2024
I zapped this for effort but X or Twitter are a waste of time and energy as far as using that as a reference.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @_stacktoshi OP 20 Jan 2024
Yeah, it's totally flimsy but it's just as good as all the other theories about Satoshi. Entertaining to say the least. I figured it was okay to bring up again based on the other discussion. Hearing second-hand that CIA employees don't have an official statement on the matter was just a bit intriguing. How could someone just disappear along with the keys to spend hundreds of thousands of bitcoin?
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