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Bitcoin belongs to the world, no doubt.

But it was invented in Britain.

Evidence 1:


Evidence 2:


Just as the internet was invented by a Brit and then hijacked by the Yanks, so Bitcoin is slowly being hijacked by the Chinese and the Yanks.

I have no major beef about that, as such.

What I do have a beef about is having to correct the British spelling of words on this bloody forum.  

For example, the correct spelling of colour, is with a u. This forum has been set-up by Satoshi, a Brit (take a look at your posting times, they are European times), but I am forced to auto correct to the US spelling of color.

That spelling, among many hundreds of other vandalised words, was introduced as a 'fuck you' from the traitorous tail coats who went on to be the 'founding farther's' of America (founding, ha. it was never lost, ask the Native American Indians - see a bunch of thieves).

Satoshi didn't create Bitcoin or this forum so it could be hijacked by the Yanks.

It needs British English spelling by default.

Fix it.

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(if you can't see the funny side or take a joke, don't respond)

Where ever bitcoin was invented it is not a problem..the great thing is that bitcoin was invented and we are here in this forum are the ones received the benefit of bitcoin invention

That's hardly any proof. Plus we don't know the real nationality of the author or who he was anyway. No that any of this matters, what matters is Bitcoin is a transnational currently for the world, stop the nationalist bullshit.

This is silly and I'm not sure if you're trolling or not. Bitcoin hasn't been hijacked by anyone and it's free for everyone to use regardless of nationality. So far I've seen no conclusive proof that satoshi was 100% British either. He could have been just trying to throw people off his trail or just living in Britain. Bitcoin is borderless and belongs to the world and that's what's great about it.

We had to take it over because you Brits would just have a cup of tea and talk about crypto for two or three hundred years before doing anything. I always suspected Dr. Who invented Bitcoin. If you look closely at a printed copy of the first page of the database you see an ASCII image of the Tardis.

Typical Brit.  What fucking wanker-asshole.  (not 'arsehole')

You think Brit invented the internet - eh?  lol.   

Yep, its official: Sir Tim Berners Lees invented the internet

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/top-12-answers-sir-tim-berners-lees-reddit-ama/

The Yank mag Wired said so  :P

The title 'Sir' means the internet inventor is a Knight of the British Isles.

At some point Satoshi will be given a Knighthood too. Bookmark this post for future reference.

Unfortunately, my fellow countrymen are very good at inventing things and then letting others take things over and make all the money.  The work ethic does tend to stop at 4pm when the tea lady comes around with some crumpets. All very civilised, but not very productive for the GDP.

Hadn't considered the Dr. Who angle. Thanks, I'll research that right now. Just finish with the tea first. 

The proof is in the details. The version of the newspaper that is referenced in the Genesis block is one that you could only get from buying it in the shops, locally: like in the UK. I suspect that the newspaper printers people could tell which region the edition is from  :P

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block

https://i.imgur.com/R8g6G49.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/IEKoFwj.jpg

I beg to differ. Sir Tim Berners Lee invented the WORLD WIDE WEB. That is different from the INTERNET. The world wide web allows linking to sites and such. The internet on the other hand is the internetworking system that connects computers and servers to each other. The Internet and its protocols were developed from ARPANET which was created by the US Department of Defense. The Internet is the system by which all of our computers are connected, while the World Wide Web allows us to easily access the files stored on those servers.

If it that makes you sleep better at night, sure.

Just wanted to point out: Hut 8 is very clearly located in Britain :P

I've always been a firm believer in providing options or choice. It would make sense there was a dropdown to select your language, e.g. US English or UK English, similar to how timezones are handled.


Even Bill Gates was knighted, so it's not limited to just British citizens.

It was an "honorary" title: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/mar/02/usa.microsoft

You know, fake / pretend title, as a way to say thanks for going over and fixing the Queen's PC, personally.  

If you want a example of how British English is losing the war look to Canada who used to spell a lot of the words the same. Due to auto correct the British words are being lost. As more of the world adapts to the internet you will see the British wording lose out over time.

I hope you post is indeed a joke, as you say in smal letters... If it wasn't I'd like to know why were you so sure that Satoshi was British and why the American spelling of words is wrong :D

Nope you're wrong!
Internet was invented by French in 18th century. (You don't believe me? Check "telegraphy and internet basics".

You may search: "Telegraphy, the distant ancestor of Internet"

I went through Satoshi's posts a couple of years ago looking for exactly this, trying to find whether he used English spelling or the Americanised (Americanized) alternative (I was bored).

Unfortunately he switched between the two. Whether this means he was covering his tracks or is just bad at spelling, you'll have to decide for yourself.

I write and learn British English. However, I have to admit that sometime due to the internet, I'm used to type America English. I tried my best to write British English such as Colour and Learnt. I read that Satoshi Nakamoto uses both Englishes to hide his or her identity. I also read that Satoshi Nakamoto uses both Englishes because Satoshi Nakamoto is controlled by more than a person - some of them might use America English and some might use British English. Whatever it is... This forums should have both languages pack. And the default should be America English since I notice most people here use America English.

Well, thank you.

You have 100% proven my point.

The fact that he used British English spelling at all means he was British. Yanks just don't use British English spelling - full stop (none of that 'period' crap, its bloody well 'full stop').  

British English spelling is just not part of their education.

However, a yankee doodle dandy forum would have meant that Satoshi himself was being auto corrected by this bloody forum default language pack.

Have some respect for Satoshi, make the default language British English.

"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other options" Winston Churchill.

The OP has a valid point. I kind of do think of Bitcoin being focused on either America or China. Like the OP points out a British paper was used by Satoshi so we can possibly think Bitcoin was invented by a Brit....which I never ever hear, it's either that Nick Sazabo or some other American guy who people speculate who Satoshi is, and of course that poor Japanese guy. So some bias should be recognised in our assumptions at least.

Also I know quite a few Americans are on this forum but IF we are saying Bitcoin is for the world then please maybe don't assume everyone is from the U.S. The amount of times people have answered me assuming I was American and so have to worry about the FBI, the IRS, the CIA and what congress decides about Bitcoin etc...

I never get anyone say hey we need to worry about MI5 or how the UK National Tax service will process Bitcoin. The OP point was meant to be humorous but I think he has a serious point which is valid. i live in Asia, I'm a Brit and I am always having to explain British English to Americans while I know every damn colloquial of the U.S. We did invent the language after all...might be time to think a bit more globally.

Americans can't do that because they believe they're the center of the universe. Thinking globally for, let's say, a Texan means crossing the border into Mexico on the weekend to buy tequila. lol

I can't believe so many non-Americans come to this forum and contribute to discussions that are clearly meaningless to them. At one point half of the discussion threads were about Coinbase and the other half were about various actions taken by the U.S. Government. Why would a Chinese guy or an Aussie give a shit about some American exchange, American localbitcoins bust or American state making Bitcoin illegal?

Let's face it the Bitcoin foundation would better be called the American Bitcoin foundation with almost all members American and based in Washington.....It's the World Series in baseball all over again. Lol.

The reason is the main user of Bitcoins are American,you can find that info almost everywhere you look. If you want to ignore that and play in a secluded forum for Brits thats a choice you make. I am not American and find a lot of great info here,its just not the cup of tea you may be looking for. Ignore the biggest segment of Bitcoin users and I doubt many business ideas pan out.

Please no!  They do strange things over there, sausages are bangers, flashlights are torches, its just silly chaos!  I think the forums would spontaneously implode if we had to deal with British English here.

Bitcoin was invented for the Internet, a place without borders without countries. There is no need to say Bitcoin is American, British or Chinese it is just International

PS: I even can buy African Newspapers here in good old Germany. So the point with the British Newspaper is pointless  :D

Using your argument, this forum should be Chinese....we know they control all the mining and the trading that goes on.

Just asking to show some respect for the creator.....he didn't reference and article from the New York Times. No. The Genesis (you know, in the beginning) block refers to the The Times, from the UK.

We know the yanks like to take over everything, that's the point of the OP  :P


Actually, I'm a bit surprised that there isn't a British child board on this forum  ;D

The post was American English vs. British English,so adding Chinese into the mix is changing the borders of the argument to suit your points.

If Britain needs a forum then you should create one that gives you all the glory you feel you deserve.
Problem is you are trying to do what most Brits are famous for around the world. Looking to turn their vacation abroad into a little slice of Britain.
Any one that has traveled will know what I am talking about. You are also reinforcing a stereotype by making this post,but I am sure you know that.

Britain already created a forum for Bitcoin - this one. lol

That's the whole point.  ;D

This forum was created by Satoshi and Sirius. I'm pretty sure that Sirius is Finnish. It was then passed on to Theymos who I think is American. Satoshi created Bitcoin to be international. It doesn't matter what language you speak. If Satoshi did care and wanted to enforce such a rule for British English, then why did he allow non Brits to be admins of the forum?

Satoshi configured this forum. If he'd wanted it to use British spelling, he'd have configured it that way.

America's way of spelling things is often the original English spelling. British spelling changed over time, but America kept the spelling that was imported at colonization. (Probably because the original colonists were almost all literate, unlike the Brits. ;))


Not true. I use the spelling that makes the most sense to me. I write "grey" instead of "gray", and in a few words I use the British "s" instead of the American "z".

I always post in British English, on here and on other forums. The internet is multinational. No one is alienating us for our British English, and we shouldn't be to other members.


You can't force British spelling on everyone.  ;)
I am beginning to think you have your Windows and/or your browser installed incorrectly. My browser's spell check is in British English. Words like "color" and "favorite" are underlined red.

Anyway (another Brit word), my spelling is loosing the British touch. Words like "program", "meter", "center" are creeping into my vocabulary.  :-X


We seldom say "bangers", only referencing a particular dish "bangers and mash".


Satoshi is inconsistent himself  :D

As a British person, I alternate between American and British spellings pretty much at-will. Except with words such as colour. I also will purposefully make it my objective to spell everything in British English if anyone tries to tell me that American English is the proper way of speaking English and that I'm wrong (oh, how often this happens...).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E3-f8usdWg


Okay, that's good enough. ;)

Extra watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qNBk5BbmBc

Actually, I was waiting for someone to point that out  ;D (although, I'm sure there have been updates where Satoshi's original implementation was written out of history  :P).

Thanks to everyone who took the post in good spirits. To those that got hot under the collar  :P

The reality is that Bitcoin is international and culturally neutral.

As with the internet, our American cousins are, as has been pointed out, helping to drive adoption.

The biggest efforts are European and American:

https://i.imgur.com/X4HTh6P.jpg

So we all have a ways to go to make Bitcoin the gold standard.

However, when the corrupt lobby system in American tries to control Bitcoin, we might have to revisit our new special relationship and that's when we will really have a conversation about changing the forum language pack back to British English  ;D

There is something oxymoronishly subversive about your comment.

'You can't force British spelling on everyone....'  vs '....change your default browser language from American spelling to what suits you best.'

See, American language packs set to default: the thin edge of the wedge.  I fear the minds of our snapchat, 140 character, chewing gum attention span youngsters will eventually mean the war of our British words will be lost.

As someone who uses Snapchat (simply as an alternative to texting, I don't snap "selfies" and all that useless crap) to talk to people, the fact that everytime I type colour or another British word it tries to underline it in red or autocorrect it annoys me. I guess I'll need to get around to changing my language pack on my iPhone...

HaHa The joke thread went to Meta!

Here's a reason why the forum should be in American English. Brits are too proper and courteous. There was a British Bitcoin forum started long ago (in 2011 I think) by a guy named Vladimir Marchenko. Vladimir was a whiny little Nancy Mary that constantly bitched about the lack of strict moderation on this forum (probably because he was a proper limey). He went from thread to thread here telling everyone about his great new forum. It was strictly moderated so conversations there seldom became obnoxious or developed into anything useful. Because his members had to behave, his forum never grew and eventually disappeared. This proves loudmouthed, obnoxious, crude, judgmental American pigs are necessary to make a successful Bitcoin forum. Now, because Americans, for the most part, are lazy, ignorant Neanderthals they need the forum default language to remain the English that they finally learned in 12th grade. if you start throwing a "z" at them where they expect an "s" or use "re" instead of "er" the plonkers will end up in a sticky wicket and commit harry-carry.

what forum exactly sir? i'm curious

Clearly some people have the impression British men are like this.

     

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03162/bowler-hat_3162926c.jpg




When actually they are more like.


http://www.me-me-me.tv/images/2009/04/tattoo-stupid.jpg





So what have we learned by this thread? possibly that Americans can't recognise British humour or that Americans really do think the world revolves around them. Can I make the point IF we are going to be global then the biggest type of English taught today is actually Bristish English which is the preferred type in China and India. So actually if we did use a global English it would be British English not because of the British but because of MR Lee and MR Gupta.

Unfortunately as a rather normal British person, I have to say this is somewhat true. We call these kind of people "chavs", who live in "council houses" (provided by the council), usually have a family of about 10 children, and smoke around 200 cigarettes a day. The lattermost point is hyperbole, however I have seen a chav family in my area who meet the first two criteria. Two of their children became pregnant under 18, one later vanished probably to a different home. I didn't notice for about a year or two. That's how many children they have.

The comedian Devvo who I linked to before probably illustrates this "chav culture" the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E3-f8usdWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qNBk5BbmBc

More OT: Britainisation please.

That part is right. Satoshi is a Brit (and American for that matter). His name was his way of staying anonymous. ;)
If he was to create it this time around, he would have picked Kim Jing-urn etc. as his alias. Tom/Dick/Harry/Matt/Steve/Dan wouldn't work.

Before I began, I used to type in "colour" and "programme". Lately, whenever I write that I get a red bumpy underline and I, after a couple of years, was forced to switch to "color" and "program" instead all thanks to spell check.

At least I can save on keyboard depreciation. ;D

btw, I still use Biscuits (and Cookies), and Taxi (and Cabs) so I will get along with both. ;)

I don't remember what he called it. It closed long ago. He was trying to make his forum the "official" Bitcoin forum. He probably only did it because, at that time, this forum was monstrously popular. The ad revenue would have been substantial. He was a scammer/profiteer that tried over and over again to start some retirement level company with Bitcoin. He and MatthewNWright started Bitcoin Magazine only to fuck that up and sell it to someone that could make it work but not before he ripped off a bunch of people. He had a mining pool that closed down. He tried to get investors to start an ASIC company that would be listed as UK based PLC but by the time he set that up he was known by too many people as a fuck up scammer so that never worked. He always had some new vaporware he was pushing.