Topic: The Church of Satoshi and Latter Day Coins - page 4. (Read 7537 times)

Saint Gavin as seen by Caravaggio.


 

Thank Satoshi this pizza doesn't cost 10,000 bitcoins.

Religion is believing in BS. Bitcoin is knowing hard science. The complete opposites of spectrum. But why not, Bitcoin can be very successful mock religion like FSM or Church of Subgenius.And our grand kids then will have a religious paintings with Gavin's stupid smile holding white laptop who is radiating holy light lol! We must have visual depictions of Satoshi and Gavin forbidden.


The source code is more important than the code writer!They might mutate and cripple Bitcoin original message and meaning like catholic church did with christianity.We must have some religious rites like rastafarians have. We must observe the divine and secret process of ordering holy substances from Silk Road to ensure that the work of Satoshi the bitcoins does not lose the market value! And this is not superstition, there is good reasoning behind that!Bitcoin religion is all forgiving! The pedophiles of Freenet introduced the sinner MisteryMiner into religion of Bitcoins.We could have the sad day of July 2011 remembered when Bitcoin bubble crashed. And we could have apocalyptic prophecy of end times when hashing power reaches so high that all blocks have hashes of only zeroes. Then there will be second coming of Satoshi who will come with new algorithm and start mining on new blockchain. He will separate the righteous bitcoiners from those who harm the cryptocurrency!

Everything is  better when it contains bacon.

It was a miracle- that the faith in the coin could be exchanged for real world goods.

As usually I'm in, and guess what, I bring rum for the rabbit.

Sounds good!

Ha, I love it! Seconded.

Pizza Day?

Before this goes further, can we just establish that there will be no dietary restrictions? Because if you try and make me give up bacon, I WILL switch to Litecoin. Oh, and we need more holidays. Getting to use one "diversity holiday" to miss work every four years for Halving Day just isn't gonna cut it.  

EDIT: Just thought of two more.
1. No church teaching against the use of intoxicants (let's face it, if we force a split with the Silk Road contingent, we're gonna end up on the losing side of that one).
2. No weird sex stuff (and of course, by that I mean that the church should be totally cool with weird sex stuff).

I see a market for payment apps for churches. Churches are usually supported by passing a collection basket around their church on sunday. The problem with this is that none of the congregation know exactly how much is collected and sometimes dishonest priests steal some of the collection, for their own profit.

If, instead of that, the church were to pass round a QR code, then the parishioners would be able to see exactly how much was collected each sunday, by monitoring the payment address, thru some kind of church payment app.

Matonis tweeted about a catholic church in New York that is accepting bitcoin donations
http://www.stjohnsgoshen.com/bitcoin

Satoshi is a fairly common Japanese male name.  That doesn't preclude the possibility that it's an anagram.


1) Satoshi isn't actually gone.

2) He could definately prove himself, if he cared to, simply by openly signing documents with one of the first 10 bloack reward addresses; particlularly the genesis block address.

3) Satoshi is still al*** and...

4) he'll definately be aware of it the next time he does a search on this forum for his old nomDePlume, thanks to you.

I suspect that's because he's still around. For some reason names stick better once the person is actually gone and can't mess up any longer.

But "Satoshi" does have a nice mythical ring to it already. And if I'm correct although it kinda sounds japanese to westerners, isn't it not actually a Japanese word? It would be funny if it turned out to be an anagram in some language.

BTW: it does have some theological sounding anagrams in english:
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=satoshi&t=1000&a=n

I think because this idea is so bat-shit-crazy we probably can't make the church officially with Gavins support. Because it's crazy. And that would carry over with the real worlds impression of us as already being crazy. However it could be done anyway. Satoshi is gone, and I doubt even if he could prove himself (some message in the block chain?) many people would not care and would prefer the mythical Satoshi (Which if he is still alive, i suspect he is aware of himself).

Well, not sainted, but in the thread a couple years back wherein many of us were discussing what the denominations of BTC shoudl be called; I (yes, I personally) suggested that we should name them after the most important people in the movement at that time, starting with the most important person lending his name to the smallest demonomation.  Like how the US bills have Geoprge WAshington on the $1, Thomas Jefferson on the $2 bill, etc.  I'm the first person (I think; but the recodrds of this forum would know) to suggest that the smallest BTC denom (0.00000001) be called a Satoshi and the next significant order of  magnitude (three decimal places, or 0.00001) be called a Gavin.  Satoshis stuck, and have been used by both membership of this forum an a number of articles; but it seems that Gavins didn't stick, as I've never seen the term used in print/text since.

Perhaps there will one day come a great doomsday Cult of Deflation that will attempt to hoard as many coins and possible, only to send them all to address with no known private key.

I suspect that would seriously weird him out. :-)

But I'm sure the thought of being a "Pope" to this new movement has occurred to him. He is obviously a smart man, I'm sure this thought has occurred to him as has the thought of what place in history he will occupy if Bitcoin succeeds and endures for thousands of years. It is quite possible it is not a minor thing that is happening here on these message boards.

Its true, while it's funny there is no reason why Bitcoin can't (and dare say won't) end up as a religion. Scientology is huge and powerful. Bitcoin has a far more philosophically sound background. The mathematics behind the cryptography in it's own right touches on the origins of the Universe in the sense that many enlightenment thinkers considered Mathematics some element of god.

Indeed you are correct that the 'faith' in the value of the currency reflects faith in a deity itself.

So you want to canonize his dead body?
Go tell him.

Undoubtably. Although perhaps he's more like St. Peter, although I guess since he's still alive he can't be Sanctified yet. So yes, I guess that makes him Pope.