Which satoshi are you looking for?

Which aspect of satoshi do you admire?

If one of them answered your thread, what would you do?

I like the intent of this message, but I do like to refine messages as well as myself, and that tendency guides me towards a flaw in the logic of this message. If getting beaten up is how we are refined, then why would beating myself up slow me down? Of course, when you focus on the intent, the message is clear, but it looks like this message is not quite a masterpiece yet.

If I were to take a crack at it, I'd go for the extended metaphor, and talk about annealing, cooling, dousing and setting temper in metal. did you know that in some forge techniques, there are periods were you literally let the metal sit, or "rest"?

since tilt of a symmetric figure means that tilt of one part of the figure to the left or right results in counter-tilt in another portion of the figure, wouldn't it be more accurate to refer to the tilt in a widdershins or deisul manner?

When people say things like "i like the idea of bitcoin" or "bitcoin is a good idea", its possible for people to be referring to different things, like "i like the idea of digital currency" or "using cryptography to protect financial transactions is a good idea"

So what does "the idea of bitcoin" mean to you? What is your understanding of what bitcoin is? There was enough complexity in bitcoin to write an entire paper about it, but I'm just asking what you would say to someone who wondered "what's so great about bitcoin?"

(also, to be clear, I feel like I understand bitcoin pretty well, so I'm not asking because I want an explanation of bitcoin, I'm asking because I'm curious about the ways that people are similar and ways they are different.)

when you say "the people" do you mean ...all people globally, perhaps?

you know, there is more than one idea contained in the creation of bitcoin. so when people say "where did you get the idea", the pretty clear completion of the question is "where did you get the idea for bitcoin" but there are various concepts within bitcoin.

where did you get the idea for a public ledger?
where did you get the idea for a cryptographically secure coin?

when people ask "where did you get the idea" it makes me wonder what "the idea" means to them.

That line of reasoning leads to something like this:

"A genius would always do the unexpected.
You did something new and unheard of? Just as I expected! Boring.
You did something bland and normal? I... wasn't expecting that... True genius."

It's the kind of reasoning that thinks that "cow tools" is genius, when it's just cow tools.

Or in other words, it seems like you're projecting an internal fantasy onto other people. It's something people do frequently, and in that sense it's not unusual. But if you want to function better around people you admire, some good advice is to treat them as though they also are "normal" people.

Because they are.

Wasn't that also one of the main messages of the Satoshi statue that got made? That in essence, each one of us is Satoshi? So, are you doing the unexpected? Are you fulfilling your grand plans?

...or are the answers that you would give for yourself something more like "I don't own much bitcoin" and "my current projects are mostly mundane"?

You might think it's unfair to hold you to the same standard as someone like Satoshi, but everyone started somewhere. They got where they are by moving to somewhere else, rather than staying where they started.

Hm. Those kind of sound like questions that would be interesting to hear an original satoshi answer, but might be boring to hear the answers from someone who merely knew an original satoshi.

"I don't own much bitcoin" and "my current projects are mostly mundane" are pretty bland answers, in my opinion. Even if they are the truth.

The idea mostly came from tcgs. Plenty of other people have had similar ideas. History is pretty clear on that.

Ultimate goal, huh? I mean, doesn't the white paper establish a pretty clear goal?

>"was BTC1 still worth it in late 2010 considering it was only $0.39 for BTC1 at the time"
the satoshi I knew thought so. They bought using fiat currency around that time.

>"would have you ever thought there would meme coins such as dogecoin?"
they didn't think of memecoins specifically in advance, but they did predict shitcoins in general. They came up with dogecoin specifically. That's why it's going to the literal moon, as far as I know.

>"was it liked, or hated, at the time?"
I think historical opinions are pretty known. Nobody really gave a shit about it, except for the people who really engaged in it at the beginning.

>"looking at crypto now compared to before, what's your opinion on it as well as the community with it"
That's a pretty broad question, so i'll answer it pretty broadly. Also tough because it's commenting on someone's feelings, you know? But I'll give it a shot. They would probably have mixed feelings. Proud of the accomplishments, sad over the bullshit. Knowing that it was a project that was always intended to be beyond a single person, they would probably be pretty stoked that there are people who are trying to put it to work.

distribution of wealth is a common concern, yeah.

say someone who knew one of the original satoshis appeared, and you could confirm their identity.

what would you ask them?

What would be the most important questions you would want answers to?