If I sometimes speak with an air of authority, despite now being almost a nocoiner—yes, I have been around for awhile.
Oh?
Are you satoshi, then?
or maybe you knew him?
If I were Satoshi, and I wanted to claim my old identity, then I would start by doing what Craig Wright doesn’t: Sign a suitable message with Satoshi’s PGP key or one of his known Bitcoin keys, and give you a copy that you can verify yourself.
If I knew Satoshi, then I probably wouldn’t brag about it in a totally unsupported, unevidenced way—right after publicly humiliating myself about how I lost most of my bitcoins.
Those are dangerous claims to make. Any unknown party who makes those types of claims should be, to put it delicately, approached with some extra vigilance. Objectively, if this discussion didn’t involve me, then your question would have me thinking quietly to myself,
What’s the next move? Where’s the scam? I want to make it clear that I didn’t say that, I didn’t claim that, I didn’t imply anything to suggest it—looking back at my prior post, I don’t know why you asked it.
I won’t deny it, either: I really do not answer these types of questions about my identity and personal history. If you were to ask me if I am Napoleon Bonaparte, or if I knew Napoleon—maybe I chatted with him on IRC; or perhaps I’m Talleyrand (no, nullius was Talleyrand; nullius was
definitely Talleyrand, which means that Lauda was Napoleon!)—then I would give you a similar type of response.
Beyond that, of course, I am Satoshi:
“We are all Satoshi.”
This brings to mind a new smart-contract chain I won’t name here, which is now being pumped with much fanfare. Its founders tout how they’ve been working on cryptographic money since long before Bitcoin. They say that as if it’s something to brag about—as if it gives them some sort of senior priority over Bitcoin. They are evidently too foolish to realize that it is a self-indictment:
You had failed projects, vaporware, or mere theories, while Satoshi built something that worked.Having known about cryptographic money since before Bitcoin doesn’t make one terribly special, in itself. Many people were interested in this—some with intense active interest; others with casual curiosity. Satoshi didn’t invent the concept: He fulfilled a widespread need. He made a dream come true.
It does give me a different perspective. A view than the meme crowd could not even imagine, much less people who just bought into Bitcoin in search of dollar-profits. n00bs, get off my lawn!
Aside, I must express my supreme contempt for the petty narcissists who think that the important thing about Bitcoin is for them to throw their weight around on an Internet forum. Ultimately, they don’t matter; in 20 years, it will be as if they never existed. But meanwhile, they are both annoying and disgusting: They don’t care about Bitcoin.
Are you referring to anyone in particular?
Asking for a friend.
My only friend in the whole world, aka suchmoon.Of course—
obviously—in one specific instance. But I wouldn’t bother with mentioning it, if the statement were not more widely applicable. It is a general problem. Unfortunately, types like that are a dime a dozen in “crypto”-land.
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