He [Adam Back] said something about a revolution … ‘I was always mission-oriented.’ Seeking Satoshi: Mystery Bitcoin Creator: Docucast II: We Are All Satoshi, Gabriel Gatehouse reporting
But that’s not the point. Satoshi will get hurt. ibid. comment
It doesn’t matter which Cypherpunk it was. ibid.
All of our Satoshi suspect were part of this secretive group of hackers and cryptographers. They were obsessed with anonymity. ibid.
Just days after Bitcoin first appeared, Hal [Finney] downloaded the software. He was in touch with Satoshi fixing bugs in the code … And there’s more evidence that points to Hal. ibid.
What if Satoshi wasn’t one of these guys? What if Satoshi was a collective? ibid.
It’s a funny place: guns and kids and politics. Seeking Satoshi: Mystery Bitcoin Creator: Docucast III: Live Free or Die, Gabriel Gatehouse reporting from libertarian festival
There was this guy called Ian Freeman. I don’t think it’s his real name. And he tried to get shops to take Bitcoin instead of the dollar. But then the FBI came after him. ibid.
The Extropians had an almost blind faith in technology. ibid.
Stephenson’s books were like a blueprint for the future [viz Snowcrash] … In Stephenson’s Sci-Fi future, cryptocurrencies sap the power of the state. Seeking Satoshi: Mystery Bitcoin Creator: Docucast IV: Burbclave, Gabriel Gatehouse reporting
In Snowcrash countries have been replaced by corporations. ibid.
Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investor, who said he believes freedom and democracy are no longer compatable. ibid.
They want new systems fit for the modern world. ibid.
In the beginning Bitcoin was a project to claw back power from the state to put control of moneh into the hands of the individual. But since Satoshi has disappeared, Crypto has evolved. It’s morphed into a trillion-dollar industry. Power is being concentrated again. ibid.
The last person to communicate with Satoshi before he disappeared: Nick Szabo. Seeking Satoshi: Mystery Bitcoin Creator, Docucast V: Cruise Ship to the Fugure, Gabriel Gatehouse reporting
And then there is a guy who is nearly forgotten, and it’s Len Sassaman. ibid. comment
In April that year, Satoshi emailed: I’ve moved on to other things. ibid. narrator
10 weeks after Satoshi disappeared, Len killed himself. He was 31 years old. ibid.
In 2004, he [Len Sassaman] goes to Belgium and states working on a thesis in the areas of crytocurrencies and anonymity. ibid. comment
Len didn’t have the technical skills to do it. ibid. comment
Ben he knew someone who did. An old colleague. Hal Finney … But Hal couldn’t be the only one posting as Satoshi. ibid. narrator
We’re all Spartacus. We’re all Satoshi. ibid. comment
Invented in secret, it was a gift to the world. Bitcoin: Digital Gold? Amazon 2022
Breaking every government’s grip on money supply. ibid.
‘You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is.’ ibid. Alan Greenspan
I’m much more interested in why Satoshi created Bitcoin anonymously. ibid.
A quasi-religious movement is forming around Bitcoin – the maximalist. ibid.
The Bitcoin network replaces banks and bankers. ibid.
We are seeing the beginning of the end of fiat currency. ibid.