An interview with Bernard von NotHaus, creator of the Liberty Dollar, suggesting that as early as 2005 he had received word via a third party that his private barter currency may have in some part provided some inspiration to Satoshi.

Just some additional context for how early Satoshi may have been puzzling through Bitcoin's creation.

A lot of broadcast television is basically local stations taking feeds from satellite downlinks and piping them out on local transmitters. I can't help but wonder if it would be possible to set up an industry-standard IRD (integrated receiver-decoder) to receive the Blockstream satellite data and just pipe it out via a sub-channel on a modern digital terrestrial television transmitter. I don't have as much experience with radio broadcasting but it might be possible there too.

Some benefits of utilizing terrestrial broadcast is that those facilities and signal plants take uptime seriously so there's usually backup power, capacity for redundancy, and tools like automatic failover to backup signal sources.

Imagine citywide radio-nodes. And signals that can more easily cover some rural areas too. 🤔

If anyone ends up reading this and wants to chat about it, hit me up on twitter I suppose

Been playing with this. Really nice interface. Did have some issues when trying out the fidelity bond feature. Everything else working really well so far. Can't wait to see this develop further!

The audio is hard to hear but here's the recording of the announcement: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1gqxvlroLEAGB