Finding Satoshi
Lance is an NSA agent mainly stuck to his desk job and tracking financials of suspected terrorist organizations. His boss comes in and tells him he has a field job for him. He's been getting a lot of slack from his higher ups to do something about this Bitcoin thing and they want to find Satoshi once and for all.
Lance has heard about Bitcoin but only from the news so he's not too familiar with it. His boss gives him a dossier on several prominent Bitcoin insiders and tells him there's a big get together after the annual Bitcoin convention in San Francisco, telling him to get into that party.
Lance flies to San Francisco and manages to work his way into the exclusive party. There he sees many Bitcoin bigwigs, Andreas, the Winklevoss twins, Eric Vorhees, Gavin, etc...a big party with all of the extravagance of a room full of high rollers. He moves about the party listening in on conversations, trying to get any clue as to who Satoshi might be. He brings it up a few times but nobody budges giving him several theories ("you mean Dorian?"...said with a grin, "I think it's a group of people", "It was Hal Finney"...) but nothing conclusive. As he goes to the bar to get a drink a young hot female with a bit of an edge looks over from her glass. "Why the interest in Satoshi?".
"No reason" Lance says. "Just curious about the man behind what made all of this possible"
"None of these fools know" she says with a grin "and he certainly wouldn't be hanging around at one of these type of things..." as she walks off with her drink before he can say anything more.
He inquires with one of the Winklevoss twins about the name of the girl as they both watch her walk out of the room. "That's Cassandra...she's been around the Bitcoin world longer than most of us"
The next day he's on a video call with his boss letting him know what his progress was.
"Get on that Cassandra woman, it sounds like she might have an idea on who Satoshi is. We'll have some information for you in an hour."
Lance is standing at the Fisherman's Wharf seeing Cassandra buying some fish at the market. He makes his way over to her as she's buying some fish.
"...do you take Bitcoin?" she says to the cashier has he casually greets her, a can of sardines in his hand, "I was about to ask the same thing..."
She smiles at him...
Awesome man! F****** awesome... wish this cassandra is an adopted daughter who takes care of the older satoshi..or are you going to say she is satoshi? |
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Very very nice I like it  and whole this idea of Satoshi keys that will save the humanity. EPIC. Thank you! Satoshi key is based upon what we believe today that satoshi has control of one million bitcoin! He has prophesised this sort a dystopian version in a world where bitcoin becomes centralized! hence has hidden all those million bitcoin which will save the world one day and bitcoin from the tyranny of police state and centralization |
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take Windows media player Vs VLC player..
no developer can contribute to improving or developing windows media player but only microsoft can do and hence it will not be freely available...
but VLC is open source and anyone can contribute to its development and have full access to its code..it will be free..
people can copy the code and create similar version..
in ourcase dogecoin, litecoin etc..
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@cuddaloreappu this is awesome. U created it yourself or got from elsewhere ?
just 10 min work in photoshop |
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Whether bitcoin goes to moon. or goes to dump I ain't going anywhere..becoz the truth is I am a Nerd and it feels home!, will hang around for life
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I agree that there are different kinds of people involved in the bitcoin sphere with a part of them being more libertarian and another part being more of the opportunistic investor type.
However I'm not sure that these two groups will necessarily have to be in a state of war. I think both con coexist. Being libertarian and pro-anonymity does not rule out endorsing profitability - and vice versa.
In my opinion Bitcoin is designed as a decentralized, pseudonymous, trustless system which will automatically lead to a shift towards more libertarian values, because controlling such a system is expensive and will have adverse effects on the system's efficiency. Opportunistic investors will certainly not support governmental control of Bitcoin if it hurts the system's efficiency and profitability.
Ultimately all parties will realize that there is much more to gain than to loose from the decentralization and full fungibility of Bitcoin. The wind of change that stems from Bitcoin is much too strong to build walls...
ya.ya.yo!
may be moderates on both sides can co exist...but extremes do not , if you look at the trailer for dark wallet on you tube you can see they state that the bitcoin foundation exist to compromise the core value of bitcoin.. How can you coexist with this sort of contrasting opinions |
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The first are some Anarchocapitalist, anarchist and some techno libertarians who want bitcoin to be away from banks and government regulations and be a product of the Darknet
The second kind is the Venture capitalist and industrialist who want to make bitcoin an Apolitical instrument or neutral technology thereby making it consumer friendly for grandma and kids.
Both categories of users benefit from the presence and growth of the other catagory. But they might not want to admit it. I think this requires some deep thinking, its ultimately a tussle between idealism and money.. |
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op check carefully again..the third one is not MT.gox collapse but the November price bubble..
the price and search volume is in correlation...
SO as price increases search volume also will increase
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Updated post with some pictures and edits based on comments by anarchists here
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Thanks for letting me know that I have to pick one of these two very specific choices. Here I thought all along that anyone could use Bitcoin for any reason they like. Gosh... silly me.
Bitcoin is a game with rules. They are very broad, but absolute. You don't have to play the game, but you do have to follow the rules if you do play. That's the whole idea of transparency. The OP probably didn't intend to form a dichotomy, but was trying to be broad and inclusive regarding general interests in Bitcoin. You don't have to pick sides, but it behooves you to see the nuances of blockchain assets. there it is... you clearly said my intentions... |
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You are on the right track, but it isn't yet a war. It is a paradigm shift where idealists and opportunists must learn that they are looking at different halves of the same coin. They must realize they have a common enemy and that Bitcoin needs them both to work together to defeat that enemy.
Thanks for telling me I am on right track..nice to get +1 from legendary... Can you please tell me who the enemy is.. State or FED or Greed or what? |
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 From my almost an year old observation and experience I feel there is a sort of cold war being waged between 2 kinds of people! The first are some Anarchocapitalist, anarchist and some techno libertarians who want bitcoin to be away from banks and government regulations and be a product of the Darknet and be used for buying drugs, childporn and whistle blowing and care much about anonymity.  No matter how hard you try you cannot hide the fact Satoshi is political and bitcoin came into existence as a political tool hence satoshi wrote
"Yes, [we will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography,] but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years."The second kind is the Venture capitalist and industrialist who want to make bitcoin an Apolitical instrument or neutral technology thereby making it consumer friendly for grandma and kids.  They have to take this positions since they have invested millions into the ecosystem and are waiting for the network effects to unfold big and they least care about anonymity or the principles of how and why bitcoin came in first place. There is a silent cold war happening and a clash is imminent! TLDR: For every app like Circle there will be a Darkwallet... The future in this path could be dangerous! may even compromise the security and foundations of bitcoin in the fight! |
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I must have missed this, but how did the FBI get to Ross's bitcoins? Did he voluntarily give them up?
 The FBI has a lot of $5 wrenches. That would be torture right!... how come torture is permitted |
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How are they able to auction off his coins when he hasn't been convicted of anything yet?
In the same way they did it previously with 30k btc..arrogant guys |
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The U.S. Marshal’s Service on Monday announced a second series of auctions to sell off thousands of bitcoins related to the seizure of the online criminal bazaar known as the Silk Road. The first auction, which took place in June, sold off bitcoins belonging to Silk Road, while the new auction will sell those belonging to the site’s mastermind, Ross Ulbricht, better known as “Dread Pirate Roberts.” In the second phase of the auction, scheduled to take place over six hours on December 4, the Marshals will sell off 20 blocks of bitcoins, in chunks of 2,000 or 3,000 at a time. To participate in the auction, bidders must pre-register and supply documentation by December 1. This time around, the U.S. government is likely to fetch less money for each bitcoin than it did in the first round in June, when it sold 29,655 bitcoins for around $18 million to venture capitalist Tim Draper. At that time, each unit of the virtual currency fetched around $600, but more recently the price has hovered closer to $380
https://gigaom.com/2014/11/17/feds-to-auction-50000-bitcoins-from-dread-pirate-roberts/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter |
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He will get the Noble prize, not for Bitcoin, but for the blockchain which is much more important.
I agree with you |
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