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Ted Nelson (inventor of hypertext) believes that Bitcoin should win the Nobel Prize.

I think it could potentially win 2 ... one for peace, and one for economics.  Bitcoin is *far* better than anything done by Nash or most other nobel winners, imho.

Maybe Gavin could collect the first, and satoshi the second

Would this give Bitcoin the kudos it needs to go mainstream?

If Barack Obama deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, then Bitcoin does not.

I would have a hard time accepting such a prize, given the likes of which have been given it in the past.

Bitcoin has to go mainstream and have real impact on global economy before anyone should even think about the Nobel prize.

Considering other recipients of the Peace Prize have been Obama, Kissinger, and Arafat, and not even Ghandi, it's pretty much an ironic award now.

Hayek thought the Nobel Prize in Economics was dumb, and would lead to society thinking Nobel Economists were somehow smarter than everyone else. (I'm sure that'll never happen, right?). Notable winners are John Forbes Nash (crazy guy from a Beautiful Mind), Robert Mundall (father of the euro) and Krugman (Non-partisan super genius).

There is no such thing as a Nobel economics prize. There is a prize from the Swedish central bank awarded at the same time in honor of Nobel that some people confuse with a Nobel prize.  

Since Bitcoin can't be printed ad infinitum and the Swedish central bank invariable laureates Keynesians that prize won't ever be awarded to anyone related to Bitcoin.
  

edit: yes, and the peace prize is now an anti-prize.  That's what you get when you have a board of politicians awarding a prize (which is what happens at Oslo for the peace prize against the guidelines in Nobel's will).

I don't think non-humans or anonymous humans can win the prize.

That's why I suggested Gavin?

maybe the bitcoin community should start their own awards/prizes, mainly for development and new coins/protocols/programs etc, recgontion for some of the best ideas from within the bitcoin community where there is presently lots and lots of people working tirelessly on their ideas and inventions to make this new economy of ours work/work better, maybe give them out at the conferences, maybe btcs as prizemoney too :), maybe bitcoin itself and satoshi could be given some "posthumous" award, or become the name for the biggest "breakthrough" achievement of each year, forget nobels, bitcoin should do its own thing !!!

The nobel prize is an outdated metric to partition the academic world into a hierarchy over betters. It serves no purpose nor benefit to the Bitcoin ecosystem. Instead market adoption and remove to central banks will be the final metric of success and validation for Bitcoin. Besides, they gave the peace prize to someone who strapped bombs on kids to kill israelis. The award is forever compromised in my opinion.


I like the idea of a Satoshi prize that awards some jackpot of money to someone for doing something the community needs. Like developing a P2P exchange or bringing a certain amount of people into the ecosystem. It could be community funded and have a list of objective criterion.

I think the nobel prized was compromized when hitler was nominated.

However it's still respected in certain pockets so may be educational.

Love the idea of a 'Satoshi Prize' too

Nobel prize is a joke these days.

EU won the nobel peace prize, EU is an organization, just like the bitcoin community.

Bitcoin does.

Would it be the first prize not to one/some individuals but to "the internet". That'd be great. I don't see any of the github coders getting the prize anyway. And giving it to the "maybe-unreal" Satoshi doesn't make a lot of sense.

Satsohi should be awarded the nobel prize, and if does not appear, then theprize money should be used to buy bitcoins and give them to????

well you could send them to Satoshi's address....i think but that's kind of pointless. There are already a million there.

Yes. Bitcoin should get a Nobel Prize.

My first impression after reading the source code was that Bitcoin was that was an amazing invention of historic proportions. I've thought the same thing about Satoshi being deserving of some prize or award. It is a multi-disciplinary invention however so I'm not sure there is an award that would do it justice.

I thought this too and is another reason I believe satoshi nakamoto is dead. Why not claim his prize?

It's nothing but a rubber stamp golden boy approval award. If someone receives the Nobel Prize you know they have sold their soul. "The Powers That Be" use the Nobel Prize to legitimize the agenda of the recipient.  To the gullible, misinformed, brainwashed, public.   

Exactly why it won't happen.

Why?

Nobel prize of economy is created and sponsored by swedish central bank, which is the oldest central bank in the world, so forget about it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences

Yes, Bitcoin deserves. Since, Satoshi will not come forward, the winning price should be shared with all the active members of Bitcoin Forum.

It might actually get it because think about how much money they would get. If Bitcoin makes it the price could reach $2,000. This is a big opening for a pump-and-dump for whoever decides on the Nobel Prize, Kim Dotcom is an expert in this: twitter@kim.com

Maybe Adam Back should get it for inventing proof of work.

Proof of work is becoming the reserve currency of the internet ...

They will probably not nominate guys like Assange, Snowden or Satoshi for Nobel Prize - this guys stand for everything that is against the establishment.
People who fight for liberty and the best of humanity dont need their approval, because millions of people already have awarded them in their heart.

Because USA will follow and arrest/kill him. Is that not enough for you?
He needs to stay anonymous.

yes and it should be the center point of the next TED talk

the most to hope for is a mashable award ...   :-\???lol

BTC will need to prove itself first by surviving and becoming a bigger part of the economy. Most of the Nobels, at least in science, are awarded many years after a discovery.