The Church of Satoshi and Latter Day Coins

[crazy_rabbit]

Before this goes further, can we just establish that there will be no dietary restrictions? Because if you try and make me give up bacon, I WILL switch to Litecoin. Oh, and we need more holidays. Getting to use one "diversity holiday" to miss work every four years for Halving Day just isn't gonna cut it.  

Pizza Day?

It was a miracle- that the faith in the coin could be exchanged for real world goods.

[Bitcoin Oz]

Before this goes further, can we just establish that there will be no dietary restrictions? Because if you try and make me give up bacon, I WILL switch to Litecoin. Oh, and we need more holidays. Getting to use one "diversity holiday" to miss work every four years for Halving Day just isn't gonna cut it.  

EDIT: Just thought of two more.
1. No church teaching against the use of intoxicants (let's face it, if we force a split with the Silk Road contingent, we're gonna end up on the losing side of that one).
2. No weird sex stuff (and of course, by that I mean that the church should be totally cool with weird sex stuff).

Sounds good!

Everything is  better when it contains bacon.

[MysteryMiner]

Scientology is huge and powerful. Bitcoin has a far more philosophically sound background.

Religion is believing in BS. Bitcoin is knowing hard science. The complete opposites of spectrum. But why not, Bitcoin can be very successful mock religion like FSM or Church of Subgenius.

But I'm sure the thought of being a "Pope" to this new movement has occurred to him. He is obviously a smart man, I'm sure this thought has occurred to him as has the thought of what place in history he will occupy if Bitcoin succeeds and endures for thousands of years.

And our grand kids then will have a religious paintings with Gavin's stupid smile holding white laptop who is radiating holy light lol! We must have visual depictions of Satoshi and Gavin forbidden.


The source code is more important than the code writer!

I suppose the Bitcoin Foundation (from now on referred to as The Foundation) is analogous to the Catholic Church as it's the most codified edifice of Satoshi's will and undoubtably will end up the richest and most powerful

They might mutate and cripple Bitcoin original message and meaning like catholic church did with christianity.

1. No church teaching against the use of intoxicants (let's face it, if we force a split with the Silk Road contingent, we're gonna end up on the losing side of that one).

We must have some religious rites like rastafarians have. We must observe the divine and secret process of ordering holy substances from Silk Road to ensure that the work of Satoshi the bitcoins does not lose the market value! And this is not superstition, there is good reasoning behind that!

No weird sex stuff (and of course, by that I mean that the church should be totally cool with weird sex stuff).

Bitcoin religion is all forgiving! The pedophiles of Freenet introduced the sinner MisteryMiner into religion of Bitcoins.

Oh, and we need more holidays. Getting to use one "diversity holiday" to miss work every four years for Halving Day just isn't gonna cut it.

We could have the sad day of July 2011 remembered when Bitcoin bubble crashed. And we could have apocalyptic prophecy of end times when hashing power reaches so high that all blocks have hashes of only zeroes. Then there will be second coming of Satoshi who will come with new algorithm and start mining on new blockchain. He will separate the righteous bitcoiners from those who harm the cryptocurrency!

[benjamindees]

Pizza Day?

Thank Satoshi this pizza doesn't cost 10,000 bitcoins.

[crazy_rabbit]

Scientology is huge and powerful. Bitcoin has a far more philosophically sound background.

Religion is believing in BS. Bitcoin is knowing hard science. The complete opposites of spectrum. But why not, Bitcoin can be very successful mock religion like FSM or Church of Subgenius.

But I'm sure the thought of being a "Pope" to this new movement has occurred to him. He is obviously a smart man, I'm sure this thought has occurred to him as has the thought of what place in history he will occupy if Bitcoin succeeds and endures for thousands of years.

And our grand kids then will have a religious paintings with Gavin's stupid smile holding white laptop who is radiating holy light lol! We must have visual depictions of Satoshi and Gavin forbidden.

\

Saint Gavin as seen by Caravaggio.


 

[crazy_rabbit]

Scientology is huge and powerful. Bitcoin has a far more philosophically sound background.

Religion is believing in BS. Bitcoin is knowing hard science. The complete opposites of spectrum. But why not, Bitcoin can be very successful mock religion like FSM or Church of Subgenius.

But I'm sure the thought of being a "Pope" to this new movement has occurred to him. He is obviously a smart man, I'm sure this thought has occurred to him as has the thought of what place in history he will occupy if Bitcoin succeeds and endures for thousands of years.

And our grand kids then will have a religious paintings with Gavin's stupid smile holding white laptop who is radiating holy light lol! We must have visual depictions of Satoshi and Gavin forbidden.


The source code is more important than the code writer!

I suppose the Bitcoin Foundation (from now on referred to as The Foundation) is analogous to the Catholic Church as it's the most codified edifice of Satoshi's will and undoubtably will end up the richest and most powerful

They might mutate and cripple Bitcoin original message and meaning like catholic church did with christianity.

1. No church teaching against the use of intoxicants (let's face it, if we force a split with the Silk Road contingent, we're gonna end up on the losing side of that one).

We must have some religious rites like rastafarians have. We must observe the divine and secret process of ordering holy substances from Silk Road to ensure that the work of Satoshi the bitcoins does not lose the market value! And this is not superstition, there is good reasoning behind that!

No weird sex stuff (and of course, by that I mean that the church should be totally cool with weird sex stuff).

Bitcoin religion is all forgiving! The pedophiles of Freenet introduced the sinner MisteryMiner into religion of Bitcoins.

Oh, and we need more holidays. Getting to use one "diversity holiday" to miss work every four years for Halving Day just isn't gonna cut it.

We could have the sad day of July 2011 remembered when Bitcoin bubble crashed. And we could have apocalyptic prophecy of end times when hashing power reaches so high that all blocks have hashes of only zeroes. Then there will be second coming of Satoshi who will come with new algorithm and start mining on new blockchain. He will separate the righteous bitcoiners from those who harm the cryptocurrency!

You make a valid point though- the source code should be more important then the writer, AND perhaps we should be careful about making individuals omnipotent while still alive. There are a great number of end users who consider Satoshi to be such a terrific genius that his idea was perfect at it's very inception. Looking to the Catholic church should inform us as to what to be careful for, so that no one individual or group becomes the right hand of Satoshi and thus an unassailable bearer of ultimate truth.

[DoomDumas]

Weird idea, but if it can protect BTC from being legislated, why not...

Maybe relevent or not, but I wish to post this pic
(from the last bitcoinmoney article about october)

[Phinnaeus Gage]

The Gavin is pope?

Would Bruce I be considered an earlier Pope before he self-excommunicated himself, leaving the fold with his beloved and spending a well-deserved holiday in Pattaya, whereupon they exercised lads via an unsanctioned gospel, preaching the three-pronged anti-missionary approach?

[MoonShadow]

The Gavin is pope?

Would Bruce I be considered an earlier Pope before he self-excommunicated himself, leaving the fold with his beloved and spending a well-deserved holiday in Pattaya, whereupon they exercised lads via an unsanctioned gospel, preaching the three-pronged anti-missionary approach?

Bruce was a heratic. 

[Bees Brothers]

So why doesn't someone just do it already- and register the Church of Satoshi?
 

I would hope the Church of Satoshi would not bow down to the dark coercive powers of the State to seek legitimacy.

[Spekulatius]

Saint Gavin as seen by Caravaggio.


 

Awesome!

BTW: it does have some theological sounding anagrams in english:
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=satoshi&t=1000&a=n

Other then "Ass Hot I" there are not many that make sense. If you search for possible anagrams of "Satoshi Nakamoto" however, there are at least 100001 that http://www.wordsmith.org finds. It may be the holy task of our religious researchers to browse through them till eternity..

2. No weird sex stuff (and of course, by that I mean that the church should be totally cool with weird sex stuff).

Too bad, I was just about to introduce the sacred act of holy prostitution into our religion (SFW)

[Roger_Murdock]

Who is the anti-Satoshi? I was gonna suggest Bernanke, but he strikes me more as just a low-level demon.

[MysteryMiner]

Who is the anti-Satoshi? I was gonna suggest Bernanke, but he strikes me more as just a low-level demon.

Real Solid can be the Devil of Bitcoin. And anti-Satoshi.

[crazy_rabbit]

Who is the anti-Satoshi? I was gonna suggest Bernanke, but he strikes me more as just a low-level demon.

Real Solid can be the Devil of Bitcoin. And anti-Satoshi.

But maybe the anti-Satoshi has yet to come. At the end of Bitcoin Days. When the Anti-Satoshi is able to find the private key of all possible public keys. But the believers who believe in the one true Satoshi will follow him/her into the blockchain afterlife, the one and true crypto.

[MysteryMiner]

Who is the anti-Satoshi? I was gonna suggest Bernanke, but he strikes me more as just a low-level demon.

Real Solid can be the Devil of Bitcoin. And anti-Satoshi.

But maybe the anti-Satoshi has yet to come. At the end of Bitcoin Days. When the Anti-Satoshi is able to find the private key of all possible public keys. But the believers who believe in the one true Satoshi will follow him/her into the blockchain afterlife, the one and true crypto.

At the end days the Real Solid will come disguised as Satoshi and will start selling ScamCoin 3.0 and do fractional reserve banking.

[beekeeper]

Guys, your are definitely crazy, and I do love seeing people which actually read the Book..

[firefop]

I'm going to think about this --- and get back to you =P

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Would SA trolls be considered Infidels?

[evoorhees]

The main difference between Bitcoin as a religion and normal religions is that Bitcoin is real, and it works.

While one might say that I worship the blockchain, I can show you instantly that it does what it's supposed to do. I can prove the validity of the system. Normal religions have no such evidence, and rely on "faith" which is a euphemism for "belief despite a lack of evidence."

Bitcoin may be the first "utility-based" religion as opposed to being faith-based.

[FLHippy]

So why doesn't someone just do it already- and register the Church of Satoshi? There is certainly enough philosophy here.

Um? Why not? Certainly you can come up with a million reasons why not.

Granny always said... You can fuck up a perfectly good thing, or make a bad thing worse by getting the church (or the government) involved in your life.

So... Granny would say FUCK NO