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My relationship with Satoshi Nakomoto: a historical review - Michel Bauwens4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/my-relationship-with-satoshi-nakomoto
1258 sats \ 2 comments \ @Scoresby 1 Sep bitcoin
This is kind of a strange read by Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation’s founder. You may recall that the P2P Foundation was where Satoshi posted the white paper in February 2009 (after first posting it in the cryptography mailing list on 31 October 2008.
Bauwens clearly has a somewhat ambivalent relationship with Bitcoin (claiming to have lost all the P2P Foundations bitcoin in Mt Gox, veering into "blockchain not bitcoin" territory, and saying he survived on bitcoin donations alone when he was debanked in Canada).
One fun detail:
And 2-3 years ago, a small email that just said, “I will soon write to you again”. However, at that time, there were already different people claiming that this email had been hacked, and I cannot vouch for its authenticity. Also, the promised follow up never materialized.
Some interesting context in this read.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 1 Sep
The value of Bitcoin, cleverly aided by its deflationary design, was essentially a bet of the eventual failure of ‘fiat’ currencies, and investment in a certain type of future.
This guy gets it. He just doesn't like it. But then again, hadn't disliked it enough to cause him to sell even part of the $300K (worth of BTC) stash, held prior to the collapse of Mt. Gox (where P2P Foundation's funds were sitting).
I do wish him well though with his Web3 vision though!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 2 Sep
The forensics have been reviewed by ChatGPT, as filtered by the Zeon agent
Eh? Appeal to the authority of a chatbot?
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