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 Tim May inspired by Ayn Rand and Vernor Vinge (died 2024 Mar 20 age 79)