For Satoshi Nakamoto - posing as a libertarian
Lopp does us a favor and rules out HALfin as Satoshi. This opens up a possibility Nakamoto was a libertarian. Since Hal definitely wasn't! Evidence for this theory includes avoidance of cypherpunks list. The finance clipping timestamping first release. SN was also actively avoiding conflict with the Wikileaks scandal. The inference is he avoided association with a notorious anarchist activists list. ( As cypherpunks was from 1995 onwards ) Then he pandered to a well known libertarian obsession with capitalism. Why they are sometimes called inverse-Marxists. The cowardice displayed over WL is a clincher. Almost every known libertarian is a chickenshit coward. Like Eric Hughes. And Tim May So its safe to treat this fraud as a political moron. Just as its safe to assume Karl Semich is a pig-cop and Gramps a Republican party stooge. Welcome to the revolution!
On 22/10/2023 01:38, pro2rat@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Lopp does us a favor and rules out HALfin as Satoshi. This opens up a possibility Nakamoto was a libertarian. Since Hal definitely wasn't!
Evidence for this theory includes avoidance of cypherpunks list.
I don't think he totally avoided the list, but posted here (and possibly still posts elsewhere) under a different nym. I don't think I would call him a libertarian though (whatever that means; in UK usage the word usually means someone who believes in the least practicable amount of Government). Hmmm, perhaps. A supposition: suppose Satoshi (who was or is English) worked for, I don't know, say GCHQ. Around the time that Bitcoin was introduced the patents on Chaumian eCash were running out (Chaum never implemented eCash properly), and if others then built on Chaum a real untraceable ecurrency might result - something GCHQ would dislike intensely. So in order to discourage that they introduce a blockchain-based "ecurrency" [1] which is fairly easily traceable - plus they don't even have to search the internet for the raw data, it is all in the blockchain and immediately and publicly available. They (Satoshi plus GCHQ colleagues) also write one of the best-written and most secure pieces of software ever, the Bitcoin Reference Implementation. Ne lesser entity could write something similar for Chaumian eCash which could compete with the Reference Implementation in terms of quality, reliability, security and usability. Satoshi and NSA got there "firstest with the mostest" - and so the battle was won. And so an easily-traceable blockchain-based "ecurrency" was widely adopted instead of a real untraceable ecurrency, perhaps based on Chaum or developments, or something else. It is interesting to compare this supposition with the history of TOR... [1] I put blockchain-based "ecurrencies" in quotes because they could never be widely used as actual ecurrencies, the technology doesn't scale. Peter Fairbrother
On 10/22/23, Peter Fairbrother
It is interesting to compare this supposition with the history of TOR...
Satoshi doesn't matter until he publicly signs with the Genesis Key and Speaks Freely at a conference or on any other venue. Even then, he has no authority to dictate to anyone the future of crypto. Not least due to him abandoning BTC and it subsequently failing. Most spectacularly in privacy, txrate, and storage-space, and thus in general as as to becoming an actual usable P2P Electronic Cash, and therein also a store of value. Bitcoin and Tor are the same... both being first, and ultimately weak implementations, of original ideals. Now those weak failures are held out as the new ideal, by psyop meant to cancel any attempt at moving beyond those failboats, back to the original ideals, which would in their first action immediately declare and obsolete them, and more importantly their corrupt cabals, and replace them with new nextgen competitors that will eventually overtake their psy-pumped artificial market lead. Far too many people relied upon BTC and Tor and the lying voices of their captured "maintainers", and the political corp funders upstream who took over and owned them (BTC), or originated them in Govt (Tor), instead of abandoning them and then continuing to forge ahead with the OG cypherpunk vision they knew was both true and the only valid way to be, as anything less is just GovPolCorpBanl. So now you have to scrap them both and go nextgen, you've lost a decade, but you can still win in time, because anything less than OG is just another word for Fiat and GovPolCorpBank, and people will eventually choose the superior freedom nature of OG. It is now possible to create better Overlay Networks. It is now possible to create better Cryptocurrencies. So again, as has been said by a few, and by far too few, people over the last ten years, get to it. "Tor Stinks -- NSA, vulns known since before 2012" "BTC Stinks -- Cypherpunks, vulns known since before 2013"
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