some similarities or coincidences

Meet the Extropians
Wired
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/extropians_pr.html



Romana Machado - aka "Mistress Romana" - software engineer, author, and hot-blooded capitalist, showed up dressed as the State, in a black vinyl bustier and mini, with a chain harness top, custom-made for her at Leather Masters in San Jose, California, for whom she does modeling work. She was in all that garb, carrying a light riding crop, plus a leash, at the other end of which, finally, her Extropian companion Geoff Dale, the Taxpayer, crawled along in mock subjection. The couple embodied Extropian symbolism, the State being regarded as one of the major restrictive forces in the Milky Way galaxy. These people hate government, particularly "entropic deathworkers like the Clinton administration."

Early in the conference, Mike Perry, overseer of the 27 frozen people (actually, 17 are frozen heads, only 10 are entire bodies) submerged in liquid nitrogen at minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit (Cold enough for you?) at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation

Minor impediments like smog and earthquakes did not figure into his personal equation. But a change of name did.

"In Southern California, everybody changes their name: actors do, writers do. I knew I wanted to be a writer and become known, so that I could spread these ideas better, so I thought I might as well change my name," which until then had been Max O'Connor.

He spent a year thinking up a new name for himself, finally deciding on the word, More.

"It seemed to really encapsulate the essence of what my goal is: always to improve, never to be static. I was going to get better at everything, become smarter, fitter, and healthier. It would be a constant reminder to keep moving forward."

It would also be the start of a trend among Extropians: Mark Potts became Mark Plus; Harry Shapiro became Harry Hawk.

Notes:

Hal Finney, a very early supporter of Satoshi, has now been frozen.

Nick Szabo was an Extropian, and was a member at the same time as Romana Machado, Geoff Dale, David Gordon, and Russell Whitaker.

Nick Szabo is similar to Satoshi Nakamoto

Max More was Alcor CEO

Predictions in 1995 by Nick Szabo (and 6 other Extropians) on concepts including  
1,000,000+ People Using Anon. Electronic Cash and
Untaxable Economy Using Electronic Cash $100b/year.  
http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2003-December/002244.html



http://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=85281708903558&w=2

List:       cypherpunks
Subject:    Party with the Nextropians! at Nexus-Lite!
From:       plaz () netcom ! com (Geoff Dale)
Date:       1994-02-26 21:40:48
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         MEET THE NEXTROPIANS: WE ARE HERE AND NOW AMONG YOU
__________________________________________________________________________
Romana Machado - Geoff Dale - David Gordon - Nick Szabo - Russell Whitaker


Nick had a connection to Portland, OR in 1993
https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/?f=privacy_szabo.paper.txt

From: szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo)
Subject: How to protect your electronic privacy -- consumer pamphlet
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 03:20:30 -0700 (PDT)

Here is a handout I've written for our next Portland-area libertarian
meeting.   Comments welcome.  Feel free to distribute freely (you
can edit out Portland-specific stuff) with attributions.

http://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=85281708903558&w=2

List:       cypherpunks
Subject:    Party with the Nextropians! at Nexus-Lite!
From:       plaz () netcom ! com (Geoff Dale)
Date:       1994-02-26 21:40:48
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         MEET THE NEXTROPIANS: WE ARE HERE AND NOW AMONG YOU
__________________________________________________________________________
Romana Machado - Geoff Dale - David Gordon - Nick Szabo - Russell Whitaker

So Nick partied with fellow cyperpunks and Nextropians:

Romana Machado, perhaps https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanamachado
Geoff Dale
David Gordon
Russell Whitaker

Where are they now?

Satoshi Nakamoto is (probably) Nick Szabo
https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-nick-szabo/

Running similarity metrics on the whitepaper and Nick’s bit gold articles as well as his paper “formalizing and securing relationships on public networks”  indicated an excellent match over content-neutral expressions as well –so either Nick wrote the whitepaper, or it was written by somebody imitating Nick’s writing style.

• Repeated use of “of course” without isolating commas, contrary to convention (“the problem of course is”)
• Expression “can be characterized”, frequent in Nick’s blog
• Use of “for our purposes” when describing hypotheses
• Starting sentences with “It should be noted”
• Use of “preclude”
• Expression “a level of “ + noun  (“achieves a level of privacy by…”) as a standalone qualifier

There is also the remarkable lack of public reaction on Nick’s part when Bitcoin started taking off.

holy-fuck

"To protect our independance, we'll never run adds"

To protect my independance, I won't give you my name.

Geef uw mening over de mogelijkheid dat Hendrik Lenstra Satoshi zou kunnen zijn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Lenstra

So far, I have not found any statement from him on Bitcoin, which might be conspicuous in its absence considering his background.

He also has three brothers who are distinguished mathematicians.

So who are the known Dutch people in this forum?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=79.0
And which ones have considerable mathematical knowledge?

Looking at the hypothesis from the opposite direction, what comments has Hendrik Lenstra ever made about Bitcoin? 

It might be useful in comparing known Lenstra writings with the vocabulary and sentence structure used by "x".




For example, two posts end with elipses, two uses of the phrase "a kind of", three uses of the word "idea", in a brief sample of writing.

Not significant by itself, but may provide further leads, his public email addresses from May 2000

hwl@math.leidenuniv.nl.
hwl@math.berkeley.edu

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Both categories of users benefit from the presence and growth of the other catagory.  But they might not want to admit it.

If Satoshi was alive, functional, and had the keys, it appears likely that he would have been constantly dividing, sending, and mixing his coins into randomly sized, multiple, more diverse, and less identifiable accounts.  

That he did not do this suggests that he is either dead, not interested in money (even though he created a currency), lost the keys, or feels an obligation not to debase or discredit the currency by spending the early mining proceeds.

The totality of his actions, even when he was active, suggests that he feels an obligation to the currency that he created.  In other words, perhaps he has integrity, if you can imagine such a thing.

It counts.  But jewelry is at a higher risk of being stolen.  It is advertised wealth.

If you buy some, it will probably seem real.  The market for gold is much larger.  It has greater liquidity.

Despite the marketing advantages, it appears that operating a site named SilkRoad(x) attracts too many lightening bolts.

Something with a higher and more legitimate purpose.

Possible names:

• FreeTrade
• SelfRegulated
• HonorSystem
• CombatOrganizedCrime
• GoldenRule

Put the source code where the sun never shines.

They are two.

The best reason for Hawaii residents to buy Bitcoins now is for internet gambling.  Hawaii residents spend very large sums to fly to Las Vegas and pull the handles of slot machines, since there is no legalized gambling in Hawaii.  Buying Bitcoins locally can get them playing quickly on Seals with Clubs or other sites.

On the other hand, visitors who fly to Hawaii often wish to buy high quality "organic herbs" grown in the islands for local use.  Bitcoins might have a roll in that market, if a fast and anonymous distribution method is developed.  Avoiding an open exchange of goods for money has some advantages in that enterprise.  And it is a lucrative market.

Give the people what they want and can't get any other way.  Don't compete with Walmart.  Don't try to sell ice cubes to Eskimos.

What would be the attributes of a promotion for Bitcoin keys printed inside product wrappers?

• candy bars, food items, etc.
• most keys would be for fractional Bitcoin
• some would be for multiple Bitcoins
• links to wallets

Ideally a symbiotic relationship between manufacturer(s) and Bitcoins.