Did you know Satoshi was a poker player?

[rbynxx]

He had no intentions of making it a store of value. He intended it for P2P payments/txs on a decentralized network, but after reading the article, I also have the same question. Does he really want to add a poker game, P2P marketplace, and a messaging app?

He definitely had a lot of plans according to this article, but I have not checked the code as I won't be able to understand it. But if they have said it, then I will trust it haha. But still bro, it really hints Satoshi had many plans for the Bitcoin project. Like, was he really able to work on that poker game built on the BTC blockchain? The rest are good projects in my sight, but I don't admire gambling haha.

I think Satoshi wanted to but I think that would have been a lot of workload and if just a one-man army, that will probably be too much or there has been some caveats along the way. I think gambling was the easy way to connect people especially when it comes to digital payments, so, probably Satoshi being a pokerhead think through a lot on that as a side quest.

Satoshi Nakamoto acted like a sculptor, cutting away all unnecessary elements. He focused on creating global, digital, decentralized money and created Bitcoin!

Focusing on one will definitely make a good difference than creating it all at once.

[SensitiveEyes]

Satoshi was most definitely a poker face.

I think I have heard something similar on this matter of him being a poker player previously but can't remember exactly where I saw it but seeing it again come up then there has to be soon truth to this stories and looking at all your evidence I couldn't agree more. First thing first, Satoshi was a human being like most of us here (since we have some bots among us) and as such he would have had hobbies he enjoys like playing poker games. And if he was human then I have no doubts as someone who was this intelligent to create Bitcoin should be at least good at playing poker.  Nevertheless, it's quit nice to see we are getting to see what Satoshi could have been interested in  and having to enjoy knowing he was like one of us.

Intelligent people like to spend the day doing things which are disconnected from their job. Satoshi could like poker or enjoy building castles with lego bricks or selling cherries online, Humans finds way to amuse themselves, Satoshi was a human with hobbies. He could have inserted the code because he liked to throw people off finding him with erroneous plans before stripping for later releases. People are discussing it 17 years later so Satoshi’s plan worked.

[Hamza2424]

I think Satoshi wanted to but I think that would have been a lot of workload and if just a one-man army, that will probably be too much or there has been some caveats along the way. I think gambling was the easy way to connect people especially when it comes to digital payments, so, probably Satoshi being a pokerhead think through a lot on that as a side quest.

He wanted a lot of things because, in the article, the term timechain is used for the blockchain. The messaging part, though, still works. We can send someone a small UTXO with a message, but it should be big enough to show the message.

I am even surprised that in the early stage, he called fractions of BTC cents instead of satoshi. Thank God he did not keep it that way.

The P2P marketplace idea was resembling the OpenBazaar style marketplace at that time. Mike said this, so maybe it was abandoned, so he was not alone. If he would have been alone and wouldn't get any more help, consultation, or suggestions, then maybe he would have created all that.

But the other developers, whom we don't even know the names of, helped him to give us a sophisticated system.

[HeatBit]

OP, did you know that majority of men does poker? Satoshi is just been a man ♂️, it this is ever true.

[wapwapwendy]

Interesting find. Never knew there was a poker framework in the early code. Satoshi definitely had some interesting ideas. 😄

[Lida93]

It isn't surprising to know this about Satoshi being a poker guy as every man outside his busy life must have something that interest him for fun or leisure. What we can't really know is if it was only poker he was into or there could be some other things we're yet to uncover.

Does this tells us that Satoshi isn't a group of persons but a single individual?

[Patikno]

There's never a boring day in Bitcoin, you always learn something new.

According to some old findings, the original 0.1.0 Bitcoin repository contained the framework for a virtual poker game, added on April 16, 2008, months before the white paper, alongside a peer-to-peer marketplace and an IRC client for bootstrapping.

Neither the marketplace nor the poker game was ever developed after launch. The scraps persisted through roughly v0.1.3, then were stripped out. You can still see them in mirrors of the original source.

Satoshi was most definitely a poker face.

As far as I know, poker has been around for a long time, and was widely known well before the advent of Bitcoin. So, I think it is reasonable to assume that Satoshi was a poker player. That said, I believe Satoshi was a prudent person, and I am convinced he was just a casual player who played for the sake of entertainment.

Beyond that, I think Satoshi might have intended to use poker as a starting point for testing transactions in Bitcoin, right? or, maybe he considered integrating it early on, but ultimately decided against it.

[YOSHIE]

Satoshi was most definitely a poker face.

I just found out that Satoshi Nakamoto is a poker player, but in Japan as far as I remember there are several poker players who could be said to be professional poker players, I have seen in several poker tournaments, such as the same names Satoshi Tanaka and Satoshi Kuriga, they are experts in the game of poker and have won hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In the Bitcoin book I once read about poker, Satoshi Nakamoto had the initial intention of creating Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto wanted to add game features such as peer-to-peer poker, which was linked to implementation on the network, but for some reason this idea was notaccomplished.

I saw the news you posted (Published: March 14 2019) it's been seven years, I think it's not a new discovery about Satoshi Nakamoto and poker.

[justdimin]

I am not sure what OP suggests is that he was a "poker player"; it just suggests that he wanted to maybe put something that could be a use case for Bitcoin, to make sure that it had some places that people could use it for, but then decided against it and removed it so that people could decide what they wanted to do with it. And we would never know for sure if SatoshiDice had no help from Satoshi either; maybe he helped them; we can't be sure. In the end, use case would have been a good idea in many other cases, so he wasn't on the wrong path; he could have done something that would have made sense, but at the same time we have to realise that we are not going to see that because he removed it.

But once again, I do not think that it was regards to him being a poker player, he was a crypto person and the one who created all of this, of course he knew how poker worked, that would be naive to think that he would not know the math behind it, but I am sure he just played it a few times or something, not like some big time poker player.