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| .p17 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox | Toggle the table of contents Mt. Gox ]] .p8 [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwords-wallets-fortunes.html | Stefan Thomas loses key to 7000 bitcoin ]] |
.p17 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox | Mt. Gox ]] .p18 [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwords-wallets-fortunes.html | Stefan Thomas loses key to 7000 bitcoin ]] .p19 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Andresen | Gavin Andresen ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin#Bitcoin_faucets | Bitcoin Faucet ]] 5 free bitcoins (0.5 cents) per captcha .p19 [[ https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Laszlo_Hanyecz | Laszlo Hanyecz ]] 10,000 bitcoins for 2 large pizzas, first buyer of good .[[ https://bitcoinpizzaindex.net/ | Pizza index ]] - 10K bitcoins $41 2010 May 22, or $600M 2021 Nov, $827M 2025 April .p27 satoshin@gmx.com p28 stylistically erratic C++, "windows guy" .p27 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back | Adam Back ]] author of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash | Hashcash ]] .p28 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum | David Chaum ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash | DigiCash ]] .p30 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hughes_(cypherpunk) | Eric Hughes ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_May | Tim May ]] inspired by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand | Ayn Rand ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge | Vernor Vinge ]] (died 2024 Mar 20 age 79) .p31 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie | Whitfield Diffie ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Hellman| Martin Hellman ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle | Ralph Merkle ]] .p32 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann | Phil Zimmermann ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy | PGP ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist) | John Gilmore ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation ]] .p33 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper | John Draper ]] Captain Crunch, 1972 1y prison [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen | Bram Cohen ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent | BitTorrent ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow | John Perry Barlow ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technolibertarianism | cyberlibertarian ]] .p33 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike | Moxie Marlinspike ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software) | Signal messaging app ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange | Julian Assange ]] . Jim !McCoy cpherpunk .p34 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip | Clipper chip 1993 ]] [[ https://bigbrotherinside.org/ | Big Brother Inside ]] [[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/gehoffman/ | Gene Hoffman ]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_life | Doug Barnes "meatspace" neologism ]] |
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http://http://wiki.keithl.com/MysteriousNakamoto
The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto
Benjamin Wallace 2024 Bvt. Lib.332.4048 WAL
- spoiler: Still mysterious - the author makes many guesses, but does not understand blockchain technology, money, nor inventors and coders. A quick read - not much to slow down for.
No index, so here are the first pages that a concept appears on:
p4 Elon Musk as Satoshi "intern Sahil Gupta - Yale"
p6 Fedcoin
p7 Luke Nosek b1975 1998 Paypal original goal bank-less currency
cryonicist, also Peter Thiel b1967
p8 Musk?? Dogecoin? no, Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer who called Musk "self-absorbed grifter"
p10 Wired editor Jason Tanz
not OSU alum, Lake Oswego financier Jason Tanz
- p11 The Economist "Bits and bob" 2011 June 18 paywalls
p13 Dustin Trammell
p14 Every 10 minutes batches of transactions bundled into a block then chained to prior block
p15 Maximum 21 million coins in 2140 19,846,746.875, 450 per day, 3.125 per 10 minute cycle on 2025/04/04
- 2024-8 3.125 BTC/cycle, 19.5/hour, 468/day, ~170937/year, 683748 2024-2028 ... about 1M more to mine.
more like 16M bitcoin actively circulating
- p16 author's conflation of "cost" with price and value
p16 Nash Equilibria
p17 Mt. Gox
p19 Gavin Andresen Bitcoin Faucet 5 free bitcoins (0.5 cents) per captcha
p19 Laszlo Hanyecz 10,000 bitcoins for 2 large pizzas, first buyer of good
Pizza index - 10K bitcoins $41 2010 May 22, or $600M 2021 Nov, $827M 2025 April
p27 satoshin@gmx.com p28 stylistically erratic C++, "windows guy"
p28 David Chaum DigiCash
p30 Eric Hughes Tim May inspired by Ayn Rand and Vernor Vinge (died 2024 Mar 20 age 79)
p32 Phil Zimmermann PGP John Gilmore Electronic Frontier Foundation
p33 John Draper Captain Crunch, 1972 1y prison Bram Cohen BitTorrent John Perry Barlow cyberlibertarian
p33 Moxie Marlinspike Signal messaging app Julian Assange . Jim McCoy cpherpunk
p34 Clipper chip 1993 Big Brother Inside Gene Hoffman Doug Barnes "meatspace" neologism