http://http://wiki.keithl.com/MysteriousNakamoto == The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto == [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Wallace_(writer) | 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. [[ https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page | Bitcoin Wiki ]] No index, so here are the first pages that a concept appears on: .p4 Elon Musk as Satoshi "intern [[ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahilgupta5d/ | Sahil Gupta ]] - Yale" .p5 [[ https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf | Bitcoin paper ]] .p6 [[ https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/center/global/document/411_final_paper_-_fedcoin.pdf | Fedcoin ]] .p7 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Nosek | Luke Nosek b1975 ]] 1998 Paypal original goal bank-less currency | cryonicist, also [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel | Peter Thiel b1967 ]] .p8 Musk?? [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin | Dogecoin ]]? '''no''', Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer [[ https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/co-creator-dogecoin-lashes-self-233410149.html | who called Musk "self-absorbed grifter" ]] .p10 Wired editor [[ https://www.wired.com/author/jason-tanz/ | Jason Tanz ]] not OSU alum, Lake Oswego financier [[ https://jasontanz.com/ | Jason Tanz ]] .p11 The Economist "Bits and bob" 2011 June 18 paywalls .p12 [[ https://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography | cryptography mailing list ]] [[ https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html | bitcoin announcement ]] .p13 [[ https://www.dustintrammell.com/ | Dustin Trammell ]] .p14 Every 10 minutes batches of transactions bundled into a [[ https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block#:~:text=From%20Bitcoin%20Wiki,or%20a%20stock%20transaction%20ledger. | block ]] then chained to prior block .p15 Maximum 21 million coins in 2140 [[ https://bitbo.io/how-many-bitcoin/#:~:text=How%20Many%20Bitcoins%20Have%20Been,The%20total%20is%2019%2C845%2C328.125%20BTC. | 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 [[ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1jaqsei/how_many_bitcoin_lost/ | 16M bitcoin ]] actively circulating .p16 author's conflation of "cost" with price and value .p16 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium | Nash Equilibria ]] .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 ]] .p35 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell | Jim Bell ]] | [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Callas | John Callas ]] PGP .p37 [[ https://reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1051vvb/bitcoin_history_who_was_james_a_donald_the_man/ | James Donald: ]] "crypto transcendence not coming soon" .p38[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Dai | Wei Dai ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto%2B%2B | Crypto++ library ]] .p40 [[ https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Nick%20Szabo | Nick Szabo ]] at [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems | Sequent ]] April 1993, electronic privacy pamplet at [[ https://spn.org/articles/cascade-policy-institute-founder-steve-buckstein-retires-after-nearly-28-years/ | Steve Buckstein's Cascade Policy ]] meetings .p41 Julius Szabo 1956 revolt in Hungary, fled to become plant scientist, Apple II from Nick's mother Mary .p41 Nick Szabo . UW CS, internship at JPL .p42 [[ | Romana Machado ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]] [[ | ]]