Probably theymos didn't know who Satoshi is till I told him.
I do believe Martti Malmi and maybe Soren Renner (
maybe Renner) might know or at least have very strong intuition.
In my case, I know my wallet address and what was happening with me in Tallinn when I received them from James.
By the way, the mining button wouldn't go on. That startled Satoshi, but I said-- I can see the blocks are being mined by various
people-- really, almost overwhelmingly his mask wallets by the dozens at the time I believe. It had taken some time to get the
wallet up, and I also expressed consideration for all that time he'd given me, so I just said "I've taken up enough of your time. We
can do it another time, or I can just buy them someday soon."
I think I read Hal had some trouble with his computer over-heating or had to reload the wallet-- something like that.
I just mentioned I'd buy later when they were on the open market for pennies. Had I known then it was my friend's coding, I
certainly wouldn't have been so seemingly cavalierly dismissive. Later, in the fall of 2012 when he did some work for me, he
mentioned they had hit around $10 or $13, and I was quite ecstatic-- just knowing the horizontal evening out for humans was
working. I remember well he was pleased and tickled I was thrilled with the success of Bitcoin. I knew the political implications.
Even then I didn't know for sure it was his academic work-- but I'd had a few suspicions, especially with his missile comment.
I have read two dates when Nick Szabo openly requested someone to "code up" some of his technical ideas. I believe James
answered the call. So Szabo likely knows too. These are wealthy guys. I don't expect Martti to back me up. Why would he?
It's all quite historic.
theymos, there are well over 90,000 words of James' writings via which you could fairly prove to yourself he is precisely who I say.
Search him at majorityrights.com , and under "Jim" with his surname. I am not being disrespectful to you guys or trolling or trying
to pull your chains. At least give it a try, sir. I am quite sincere and honest by nature.
One last thing for now-- a commenter on a Captain Altcoins Satoshi piece, I think dated Dec. 1st about 8 days after I began all this,
claimed to be Satoshi. Just give me a sec and I will explain the coincidental connections. It sound preposterous,
except for
two items. The story was, he'd kept his pvt. keys with the 1,000,000 Bitcoins (unencrypted I guess, yeah right!) in a
satoshinakamoto@gmx.com file (I suppose was that address) and someone hacked it via a dark web auction-- maybe Silk Road,
whatever. This guy specifically blamed Indian programmers at GMX for the dark web auction. This was in 2010. Then, in 2014, the
guy who bought it on the dark web auction got hacked and lost everything. But here came clue or coincidence #2: "Satoshi"
claims to now be living in Bali. Uh, yeah, right. It happens that in June or so of 2014 (shortly after I got out of jail) James said he
was thinking of taking a job in Bali. I encouraged him to do so. Even though I have been around the world three times (to India
and southeast Asia tropics many more times)...and I know people don't go to Bali for tech work, ha.
Lastly, I was reading the Hungarian Lazlo Hanyecz, the C++ coder who mined a lot and did "volunteer" work for Satoshi.
He sold his coins before he hit it big. Anyway, Lazlo had some semi-snarky, nasty things to say about Satoshi's demandingness.
Well, what would one expect from a man (James) who once had 400 skilled American coders working directly under him at a
major U.S. computer company?
theymos, I'd be willing to converse voice with you and some others who have exchanged PM's and emails with Satoshi. This would
be hard for you all, as you have a natural protectiveness. After all, you run the lineal Satoshi Nakamoto org in the form of this
forum. I am not lying to you. It's stunning to me, to see that wallet address from so long ago. You know how I was able to recall
the fore and aft word game? "VW" at the end, that part is obvious for a car guy like me. My father was a cultish 33rd degree
Mason. A potentate organ grinder's monkey in his fez. I was the first born. Anyway, from a very young age-- about 5 to a month
after turning 17 when I left for the military-- he would not
infrequently call me two names with his hectoring, moral-lecturing dinner table Masonic madness: "a bump on a log" and, as in the
three letters after the digit 1 in my Jan. 12th, 2009 Bitcoin address to which James sent me 10 Bitcoins, a "DUD".
Thanks for understanding or at least listening.
