Libertarian hero: 'Satoshi Nakamoto', government funds, the NSA and the DHS It's more than a little odd seeing the world hail their libertarian hero, mourn that he was "arrested for inventing Bitcoin”* (as is being claimed on Twitter), and find that he ate government money like a horse. The Register can't and won't pull out a cheque-book for the inevitable exclusive with Wright. However, we can look …
>I'm not sure a gaijin living there would call it "Chiba City",
Do you think maybe the Chinese, Filipino etc "gaijin" would have a different opinion to the European, American "gaijin" considering their bokokugo is different?
(fyi people that use the word gaijin when they should write foreigner because they are writing in English usually only know 4 or 5 words of Japanese and write blogs about how it's sooo horrible here being an English teacher.. so in the future I would avoid it)
>Chiba-shi is more likely.
Just Chiba is more likely. Unless there is a -shi and a -cho or whatever with the same name in the area most people drop those suffixes.
"Chiba City", described that way and part of greater Tokyo, is a frequent location in William Gibson's Neuromancer, sequels, and connected short stories. "The Sprawl" is another frequent location in these same writings, but is a location in North America - also referred to as the "Boston Atlanta Metropolitan Axis". So "The Sprawl, Chiba City, Japan", is clearly a William Gibson reference, but an oddly anachronistic one. "Tessier-Ashpool" is a fictional Swiss-Australian family owned corporation in the same set of books, so the Gibson references are clearly fairly deliberate.
Who created bitcoins is a riddle wrapped within an enigma borrowing Churchill. It is also a game that many will continue to play probably for many, many years. Unless the creator(s) come forward with unambiguous proof, it will probably be a parlor game like the real identity of Jack the Ripper with many inane theories being proposed and a few very plausible candidates being mentioned.
@a_yank_lurker; "Unless the creator(s) come forward with unambiguous proof, it will probably be a parlor game like the real identity of Jack the Ripper with many inane theories being proposed"
Yeah, I bet you're only saying that to discredit the truth- that Prince Albert Victor, the grandson of Queen Victoria, invented Bitcoin.
Some people might claim this highly unlikely given that he was borderline mental defective, died in 1892, and if he were alive today would be 151 years old. But that's what *they* want you to believe.
It's all a cover-up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3w027x/dr_craig_steven_wright_alleged_satoshi_by_wired/cxslii7
Nice bit of detective work... Basically, the PGP key used on the evidence emails (as used by Wired & Gizmondo) uses cipher-suites that weren't in PGP at the time the emails were supposed to have sent. Theories vary, maybe he's a time traveller, the co-creator of PGP, or both?
But we can say that it's odd to find someone currently touted as some kind of libertarian hero is so fond of government and queued up for it cash on so many occasions.
Why not. People glom on things they can get. Which ain't much nowadays.
Hell, some "people" with proven track records of mass murder, antidemocratic behaviour of the worst sort, doing nothing of consequence and a strong whiff of narcissistic personality disorder have "progressive" credentials.
I would say that most of the information contained is fictitious, taken from Gibson's Neuromancer (and therest oof The Sprawl trilogy):
* Tessier-Ashpool is the name of the (fictional) super-rich family that owns the space station where a big part of Neuromancer takes place and also the computer that contains the AI (Wintermute).
* The Sprawl is the colloquial name for BAMA (Boston- Atlanta Metropolitan Axis), so this is at the east US coast.
* Ciba City is in Japan.
These references might reflect his real location, but they might also mean that he just really likes Neuromancer (which is obviously the case for me, since all these references immediately rang a bell).
Oohhh, where is my Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7?
I'm surprised that the conspiracy nut-cases haven't come out of the woodwork to claim that the bitcoin creator was working hand in hand with NSA, and they are able de-anonomize the blockchain or some such nonsense.
You mean like this post I made yesterday?
Even got some down-votes from the non-believers - which of course by the rules of conspiracy logic makes me even more right!
It's worth pointing out that whoever invented BitCoin undoubtably has millions of dollars worth of the things. It need not be a libertarian anti-government type. It could just be some really smart person who realized that they stood to make a fortune if they could successfully create a new currency.
Me? Cynical? Why do you say that?
"It's worth pointing out that whoever invented BitCoin undoubtably has millions of dollars worth of the things. It need not be a libertarian anti-government type. It could just be some really smart person who realized that they stood to make a fortune if they could successfully create a new currency.
Me? Cynical? Why do you say that?"
Not in the slightest. It's what I've always thought. I kind of imagine the first ever operation of a BitCoin rig (well, a pretty average PC actually) with millions of the damn things being churned out every second. Now stick them in a wallet, drop onto a few forums and start getting everyone else interested and Bingo, the gravy train slowly starts to chug into life.
A decade later and either BitCoin didn't take off, and you've lost nothing, or it did and your little wallet is worth $Millions$. Never mind revolutionising internet commerce, never mind sticking it to the man, this is a fantastic money-making scheme. All you have to do is be prepared to wait out the Long Game. It's the ultimate pension.
Whoever Nakamoto is, if he* is clever enough to think up BitCoin, then it is 100% certain that this occurred to him right at the very beginning.
(*or they)
The punched card ... The big B ... I'm getting flashbacks ... To the old Burroughs Medium Systems operator's console, the lights on which would display a big B for Burroughs if the input-output and the CPU were optimally balanced, please see here and particularly here, 200 megabytes of head-per-track vertically mounted 1 metre diameter disk, 128 kilobytes of core memory, ... Is there a doctor in the house?
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