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Featuring research by Seán Murray @financeguy74 on twitter (X, not ecstasy)
Until anyone has a better guess on who created bitcoin, I'm sticking this this explanation
with I discovered on twitter.com/financeguy74. Personally I don't do blockchain. Why? Look at the
company the kid promoted 13 years ago: Mt. Grox In MY opinion, cryptocurrency is not secure. I even asked AI.
My situation is I might need my cash asap and I want to be 100% safe while current admin is making our economy eratic since
mentioning tariffs. - KaRi nUSPS.com How Did I First Come to Suspect That Jack Dorsey
Was Satoshi? Well it was a very long journey,
not something I cooked up overnight. Most people know Jack as the Twitter guy. I knew him as the Square guy. I started my
career working in payment processing and small business finance in 2006 and I launched deBanked in 2010 which covered those
very subjects. When Square's mobile phone card reader came out, it completely changed the industry I was in. I first wrote
about Square in May 2011 and watched their journey as they grew and added products along the way. Eventually they began offering
merchant cash advances which by then deBanked was heavily focused on covering. I read Hatching Twitter in 2014, the story about Twitter's founding and learned a lot of quirks about Jack's personality, namely that he
is extremely defensive about someone else getting credit for his ideas or work and finds it important to leave his personal
mark on anything he does. The author shared many examples of stunts Jack pulled to draw attention to himself as the face of
Twitter even after his colleagues successfully engineered his removal from the company in 2008. Twitter, which had originally
been conceived of to share one's status, was Jack's invention, even though his co-founders obviously helped build it into
what it became. Since my office in 2015 was on Wall Street, I was out front for the big hurrah when Square IPO'd. It was
a big deal in the context that deBanked would finally get access to Square's quarterly financials and I've been writing about
their merchant cash advance stats and figures ever since. I've seen Jack speak in person at a conference only once, many years
ago at Money2020. Despite Square's success, it let Stripe take over a market segment it should've been well primed to take
over itself. Instead, Square pivoted toward Bitcoin, something I had first noticed in 2014 when they debuted Square Market.
That was also the year I got into Bitcoin myself. Square's obsession with Bitcoin was very unusual for the space I was covering
and its final decision to rebrand the company as Block was viewed by me as almost pathological, that something was off. Since
then Block's bitcoin revenue has eventually climbed up to 50% of its business but its razor thin margins on bitcoin sales
has left me wondering if it's an ideological endeavor or if it's simply a moonshot play. I don't trade stock so this was more
of a musing. Square expanding crypto offerings is an obvious play that every other company has leaned into but Block has stood
firm on being Bitcoin-only. They were an outlier among outliers for the industry I knew them to be a part of. It seemed very
weird to me. The irony in Jack Dorsey financing the legal fight against Craig Wright's claim to be Satoshi caught my attention.
At a time when Jack seemed deadset on making sure that Wright did not get the credit of being Satoshi, he himself began to
regularly wear a Satoshi shirt, to the point where it has become his personal brand. Many people see this as a marketing stunt
or quirk about the guy's love of Bitcoin. I, however, could not reconcile the optics of Jack as Satoshi in a legal fight against a guy claiming to be Satoshi. Except that this parallels
what happened at Twitter. When his co-founders usurped him he made it clear to the world that he was the inventor and that
it was his vision and not theirs. In Q1 of this year, Jack went a step further, penning a letter to Block shareholders that
the company was following "Satoshi's vision" on crypto matters. For a company I had been following since 2011
I concluded that something else was going on here and earlier this year began to compile a timeline of whether or not Jack
had the capabilities of being Satoshi, the opportunities to create Bitcoin, and whether the timelines matched up. When I realized
circumstantially it was a great fit, at least comparatively so to every other likely candidate accused of being Satoshi, and
I acknowledge that this list of candidates could be quite long indeed, I became extremely suspicious. Recalling a quote
that Jack Dorsey said at a conference on October 27, 2023 that "Bitcoin and Satoshi in 2009 was a combination of my childhood
and my curiosity and everything that I aspired to be and everything I loved" for me sets the stage for Bitcoin's founding
story as having the mark of Jack all over it. Because if his personal mark is not there, as is his tendency, then it would
be a hard bridge to cross that he truly masked everything about himself. Jack's childhood curiosities and loves are pretty
public. 1. He loved his parents. He talks about them incessantly 2. He loved maps, plots, directions, and finding oneself
on them. He explains this during every interview about himself. And parents have said the same. 3. He loved music, especially
the 90s era music. 4. He loved coding/tech and cyberpunk novels. 5. He loved pseudonyms and Japan. Hence if we look at
some of Bitcoin's most famous story lines, we will see Jack. Jack's parents 1.
First Bitcoin transaction was on Jack's mom's birthday (1/11) 2. Last mined block by Satoshi (per Patoshi pattern) was on
Jack's dad's birthday (5/3/10) 3. Block 5353 mined by Satoshi (per Patoshi pattern) was awarded to a bruteforced bitcoin wallet
that starts with 4dby (for dad's birthday). His dad was born 5/3/53. Maps 1.
Satoshi wrote direction to Jack's Dorsey's apartment on the day of the first bitcoin transaction to Hal through a series of
bruteforced bitcoin addresses (which you can read about in my other tweets) followed by Jack making tweets about what the
best way to give directions to his apartment was. 2. A novel (Hacktivist) written in 2013 by Jack's best friend (Alyssa Milano)
about Jack living a double life under a famous pseudonym ends with Jack having hidden a message in the first few letters of
different words. Music 1. Satoshi's birthday is purportedly April 5 (per the date Satoshi
set on P2P Foundation). That's the date Kurt Cobain died and Jack has tweeted out that he drew a sketch of Cobain right before
he died. 2. The Satoshi shirt that Jack wears is a Nirvana (Kurt Cobain) shirt Jack 1.
Satoshi joined the bitcointalk forum on Jack's birthday 2. Square IPO'd on Jack's birthday 3. Jack released his TBD whitepaper
on his own birthday 4. The pre-release bitcoin software code from Nov 2008 appears to have a hidden message in it in case
anyone tried to steal authorship of it. The genesis wallet's public key resolves to a bitcoin address with the word "feed"
in the middle, which if this is accurate, would've been a backdoor way for the author to prove the inventor of the Twitter
Feed was behind it if it became necessary to do so. Square 1.
Satoshi's first post on P2P Foundation was on February 11 2. February 11 is Japan's National Foundation Day 3. Jack attributes
February 11 being the day Square was founded Cyberpunk There are numerous references
in Bitcoin's founding story to the novels Cryptonomicon (by Neal Stephenson) and Neuromancer (by William Gibson), two of Jack's
favorite authors. 1. The bitcoin whitepaper was released on Stephenson's birthday 2. The hidden newspaper headline in the
bitcoin genesis block is a reference to Cryptonomicon's opening about dying banks printing money on old newspapers 3. The
code that's broken in Cryptonomicon is the Japanese Yamamoto 4. Satoshi's first address he used to transact with was bruteforced
with the words (homeftp), which in Cryptonomicon, the Cryptonomicon cryptography bible is at home on an FTP server in San
Francisco 5. The 8-day gap between the genesis block and the first transaction is a Neuromancer reference to the 8-day wait
to start the mission 6. The 50 bitcoin block award is a reference to the main character in Neuromancer starting off with 50
New Yen 7. The character that holds "the secret password" in Neuromancer is named 3Jane. The genesis block is dated
3Jan. 8. Both books involve Japan and Japanese characters. All of the above is just the surface level information, so if you're wondering how I arrived at any of it, or if
this is all I'm basing it on, know that I have a lot more to support all the above. I understand that a much better written
summary with sources is warranted and I will get there, there's just so much material so it will take time.
I'm not done yet. Maybe I should sell advertising to bitcoin companies on this DO NOT USE bitcoin page!
Was the very first bitcoin transaction at a pizzeria? Who is the buyer and seller? Obviously there was trust there.
Buyer could have offered a snazzy pair of socks for the pizza. Seller wears then and now they have his DNA on them,
lol.
I admit I don't know how to code and I use deepAI.org from Northern California where you don't have to sign in.
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