Topic: are there any ACTUAL compelling theories Satoshi could have been a time traveler (Read 221 times)

Which brings me to my conclusion:

1) EITHER Time-travel to the past or universe hopping is impossible or is never achieved by any descendants of humans (unknown possibility) OR

2) Bitcoin is irreparably flawed in ways we're not aware of that makes it unsuitable for a "divergence meter" and record of truth (very possible) OR

3) Bitcoin will be used by time-travellers to provide a point of reference for any effects they have on the planet and by their progenitors or trusted scribes to create a record of reality.

There are many companies combing the blockchain for interesting data, and perhaps one day they'll uncover some "news feed" in the blockchain left by an aspiring time-traveller, but in any case already there exists a technology that allows for careful, precise measurement of time-travel related activity.

TL;DR: If the universe is a spanning tree of possibilities, the blockchain is a trail of breadcrumbs left to track one particular subset of possibilities.

I welcome any further ideas about the possible conspiratorial uses of a permanent digital record.

Everything in the universe affects everything else, so any change will show up in the blockchain, but not necessarily immediately. Imagine stopping someone on the street to ask them the time. That person then goes on to do what they were going to do anyway, but they cause a chain reaction of change starting from the minute and very quickly ballooning into massive changes. Eventually, this will affect bitcoin mining by affecting the PRNGs inside of one or more Bitcoin miners (a miner is plugged in sooner, rather than later; a user logs in at a different time, timing from electrical circuits is affected, any number of things can change), causing them to either "miss" the winning hash, or find a hash where they previously wouldn't have.

Comically, this is not so far off from the plot of Steins;Gate, which leaned heavily on the story of John Titor, a time traveller who posted for some months on an internet forum warning us that CERN would develop time-travel technology and create a dystopia. In the anime, Rintaro Okabe (the main character) receives a "divergence meter" from another time-traveller that allows him to track his changes to the timeline (either further or closer to the original point of divergence and the original timeline)

Bitcoin is also extremely useful as a permanent, eternal record of truth.

If you start recording reality into a permanent distributed ledger, when you arrive to a new reality (and you still trust mirror-you not to lie to yourself), you can just read the blockchain to see an unalterable record of events, cryptographically proven and secure. Any information recorded into the blockchain cannot be edited or erased without an ever-rising cost. You can disrupt information from being written (and indeed, this has happened before), but once blocks start getting stacked on top, it's essentially permanent (a lot more permanent and easier than microfiche's, that's for sure)

From an old reddit post I found:

A change of pace: Bitcoin is an extremely important technology for time-travellers.
All of the below assumes time-travelling backwards in the same universe or hopping across to alternate universes that exist in the same state as our past is possible.

Anyone who ever invents time-travelling needs an anchor from which to gauge changes made to the timeline, among other things I'll outline below.

Bitcoin serves as a perfect tool for time-travellers. In case you're not familiar, every 10 minutes, Bitcoin creates a new block with part of the output of a previous block, plus a very special, very hard to compute number. In effect, this creates a chain (where the word blockchain comes from) of very improbable events (finding a very special number).

If you were to time-travel effectively, one of the first things you'd need is the ability to measure and track your changes. You don't want to go back, kill Hitler, and then come back to a dystopia worse than you had before.

What bitcoin does is make a series of permanent, distributed, unalterable points of low entropy. You can, in essence, track your timeline against a proposed timeline you're travelling to by where the blockchain diverges. If they match, the universe must be a match. If they don't, walk backwards through the blockchain to find the point of divergence, and there's where the change has affected the universe.

Interesting

But why? Why are they looking for him? Just curiousity?
I think the reason they called Satoshi is not what they couldn't explain. People seem to call me because they admire people like this. For some reason, I think of comments written to famous people on Instagram. They may be thinking the same in Satoshi.

As long as We have Bitcoin Which worked 100%, there is no need to Bother About someone who don't want anyone to know him let's Continue benefit from it, Also His is too let if he will appear By any means No one will Agree 

This isn't a theory, it's pure speculation. A theory is something that can be verified or debunked, but it's impossible to know if Satoshi is a time traveler or not, because you'd first have to find him, which is already unlikely, and then somehow question him, which is also unlikely. Plus, modern science has no idea if time travel is possible, and more theories suggest that it is impossible. So it's kinda a waste of time to speculate about it.

Lol not even a right time for me if we are talking about bitcoin now with the pandemic, coz if it is really available at this time then we should have using it since the beginning of the crisis. Perhaps you only mean is the time that we need a digital currency, well it does not fit that very perfectly tho.



The search for Satoshi won't stop anytime soon. Humans are naturally curious especially when it's about something they can't explain. We would see even more theories soon. Don't worry.
[/quote] It won't  be over as long as there are people who are curious about him, and until he comes out or be known by which I can tell is very impossible to happen now. I find this theory too odd, since it is very unusual and not ideal. It could be if time traveling was proven and is true with proofs and experiment but the case is that it is not. So might as well we should stick to the theory that Satoshi is dead.

Yes, Its crazy but yet, interesting. Even an ardent sci-fi movie lover would immediately agree because everything seems like it's true. I mean, Bitcoin is just available at the right time.

The search for Satoshi won't stop anytime soon. Humans are naturally curious especially when it's about something they can't explain. We would see even more theories soon. Don't worry.

OMG! This is the craziest theory I've ever heard about Satoshi.
Are you really serious? Time traveling is basically impossible. And I think if he could be the time traveler, he could make something different. We don't know who Satoshi is. And I don't think it helps to keep looking. I think it's time to let go of this search anymore.

To support the theory, i just want to say Satoshi Could be John Titor... Prove i'm wrong and i will discard the theory.

That way everything match with the time-traveling for software development.

The timing is really very good.As if someone already knows the course of history. But the question remains: what is Satoshi doing now?)

That hash was mined in 2018.

The last time bitcoiners got all excited over a block hash beginning with an unusually high number of zeroes was when Satoshi mined the genesis block. After the fact, once bitcoin had developed a community, the significance of block hash 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f was pondered in a Bitcointalk forum thread. There are a number of unusual things about this hash: for one thing, it contains two hex zeroes more than were required, and for another, as we explained in a previous article on the genesis block:

“It took six days to mine. As speculated in an old Bitcointalk forum thread, this may have been yet another deliberate trick on the part of Satoshi, to mimic the biblical account of creation. As we read in Genesis 2:2, “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested.

It has been estimated that it would take 2,500 years to create that hash, working at a rate of 1 exahash/second (which represents around 2.5% of the current BTC network hashrate). For this feat to have occurred deliberately, it would had to have been performed on a yet undiscovered quantum computer, or by a time traveler taking advantage of future advancements in processing power. As theories go, this one’s pretty tinfoil, but there are those who believe that Satoshi Nakamoto was a time traveler.

Went dark because Gavin went to CIA and didn't want them to dig too deep ?

Go into the past to gift humanity with the greatest financial invention in a century, have them mine for nearly 10 years, then when 2017 bull-run comes cash in?

How do we explain this hash?

00000000000000000021e800c1e8df51b22c1588e5a624bea17e9faa34b2dc4a

Proof of time-dialtion?

There are many, many more oddities in this story.

Bitcoin came into existence at the perfect time, almost like humanity needed it. Satoshi Nakamoto, the enigmatic and mythic figure seemingly disappeared without a trace, just as fast as he appeared, perhaps gracing the world with what little time he has left.


What are you thoughts/ theories?

"If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry" - Satoshi Nakamoto