• 11111one11111@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Fuck I thought from the title it was an answer to the identy of the creator of bitcoin who is often credited as being the creator of the whole cryptocurrency concept, Satoshi Nakamoto. Not a story about a douche who created another useless crypto coin.

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      7 hours ago

      My head canon is that Satoshi Nakamoto…

      … is Hideo Kojima.

      Anyway, Satoshi is the pseudonym used on the original… white paper, design doc, whatever it was, for Bitcoin. There’s no doubt about that, I was there back before even Mt. Gox became a bitcoin exchange, on the forums discussing it.

      I thought it was a neat idea, at the time… and then I realized 95% of the discussions on that forum were about ‘the ethics of fully informed ponzi schemes’ and such, very little devoted to actual technical development… realized this was probably a bad omen.