Topic: Ted Nelson really reavealed Satoshi Nakomoto's identity (not Shinichi Mochizuki) - page 2. (Read 8588 times)
June 21, 2013, 10:57:04 PM
Very intrigued. I watched it and enjoyed his artful story telling, but, I did not pick up on a subtext (other than he's been having futuristic thoughts for a while).
June 21, 2013, 10:20:47 PM
Remember where you were at twilight on the seventeenth of May, 2013.
Sorry to tell all of you Shinichi Mochizuki fans, but he is not our Bitcoin overload. Ted Nelson very clearly revealed to the world who the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin actually is... in fact, he revealed it at least two dozen times in the video. Shinichi Mochizuki was... certainly a huge influence on the project.
In addition to the mathematical aspects Mochizuki almost certainly influenced (far beyond anything I would ever even attempt to comprehend) he was the inspiration for the character Satoshi Nakamoto... created by Ted Nelson and the Xanadu Project.
Bitcoin is just one of the first types of those "files flying around us" that aren't based on a printed sheet of paper like everything else we have.
Listen to the video again, carefully this time. Don't listen for the reasons he says Shinichi Mochizuki is the most likely person to truly be Satoshi (we all knew most of those a long time ago). Listen to his words... and who he actually reveals to be Bitcoin's chief architect.
I will let the community dissect this confession over the years rather than spend all night writing down all of the times he revealed it myself. I probably picked up on about 5% of them... my brain simply does not function on the same level as people like Shinichi Mochizuki, the inspiration for Satoshi, or Ted Nelson... the real Satoshi.
At least I feel slightly better about my personal intelligence compared to people like that knowing that Bitcoin has been in development for 30 years.
I suggest that we the community name Bitcoin's next denominations Mochizukies, and Nelsons.
Sorry to tell all of you Shinichi Mochizuki fans, but he is not our Bitcoin overload. Ted Nelson very clearly revealed to the world who the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin actually is... in fact, he revealed it at least two dozen times in the video. Shinichi Mochizuki was... certainly a huge influence on the project.
In addition to the mathematical aspects Mochizuki almost certainly influenced (far beyond anything I would ever even attempt to comprehend) he was the inspiration for the character Satoshi Nakamoto... created by Ted Nelson and the Xanadu Project.
Bitcoin is just one of the first types of those "files flying around us" that aren't based on a printed sheet of paper like everything else we have.
Listen to the video again, carefully this time. Don't listen for the reasons he says Shinichi Mochizuki is the most likely person to truly be Satoshi (we all knew most of those a long time ago). Listen to his words... and who he actually reveals to be Bitcoin's chief architect.
I will let the community dissect this confession over the years rather than spend all night writing down all of the times he revealed it myself. I probably picked up on about 5% of them... my brain simply does not function on the same level as people like Shinichi Mochizuki, the inspiration for Satoshi, or Ted Nelson... the real Satoshi.
At least I feel slightly better about my personal intelligence compared to people like that knowing that Bitcoin has been in development for 30 years.
I suggest that we the community name Bitcoin's next denominations Mochizukies, and Nelsons.
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