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jack 1 year ago
i frequently imagine satoshi sitting back somewhere and laughing at it all

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I believe he is not alive. That does not mean at all that the early mined bitcoin may not be moved. I may be wrong.
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Mindaugas 1 year ago
We are quickly approaching the scenario from the movie "Idiocracy”. Funny and scary at the same time.
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OT 1 year ago
*in heaven
I find it doubtful. It seems infinitely more likely that the 21 in 21 million BTC is a reference to 7+7+7 (a jackpot), not half of 42. I'm not saying Satoshi wouldn't like hitchhikers guide, I'm just saying that part explaining how he came up with the number triggers my Spidey sense 🤙
The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled. Tao Te Ching – Verse 7 (translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)
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n0>1 1 year ago
What discipline it must take. The greatest gifts are the ones no one knows we have given.
I picture him at a beautiful mountain home in Montana or Colorado, working with his hands, raising a family.
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Sasha 1 year ago
But what else do you do in death 🤣
i frequently imagine him providing guidance and rooting others on. i’d bet he initially thought that ~15 years in would still be challenging times for bitcoin to gain consensus across the societal layers he was cognizant of. if so, I think he was right. we’re still slogging away trying to make this work. “I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume.” - Satoshi Nakanoto
I wouldn't doubt if they had a deep understanding of behavioral finance.
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BTC_P2P 1 year ago
Price would dump hard, plebs would buy it all over time, tick tock technology keeps working, another FUD removed.
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Rand 1 year ago
satoshi: always consider allways, shout out satoshi, gr8 day fren!
I remember that tweet actually. But also remember that earlier that day he wrote something would make the crowd go crazy. In fact I remember after reading that tweet I went in and turned on the tv just to be confirmed that I wasn’t reading it wrong.
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Faroaldo 1 year ago
Somewhere over the rainbow maybe. HF
Actually can’t seem to find that tweet I was so sure of made me go in and turn on the TV
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mahdieh✨ 1 year ago
what does he/she look like?! ask why smiling at all these?! & maybe asking more questions you have in ur mind!!!
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Bryan 1 year ago
I believe this as well.
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nobody 1 year ago
"Not really. This is a lot of fucking work."
To be fair, lots of people overestimate the value of money, so maybe the market cap could go that high I just don't think that's what Satoshi was sayin
No, I'm talking about actual money: scarce, fungible, durable, universal, etc. If I provide a valuable service for you, and you pay me in something that has those properties, why shouldn't that thing be equal in value in the future?
In this reply, you're overestimating the value of labor which is paid for in money and discounting all of the most valuable labor, none of which would ever be paid for in money
For example, as a child, you wanted to learn things, so you did labor such as figuring out how to read, and you were paid in knowledge. Another example: as an adult, you have probably tried to think of something comforting to say to someone grieving a loved one's death, for no pay at all. I posit that if you had to live in a world where, starting tomorrow, you will never see a child learn anything, and nobody will care how you feel if your loved ones die; you would prefer going without everything you've ever paid money for.
I get that. I think I just didn't fully comprehend your last bit about valuable things not ever being paid for in money, but Satoshi wasn't trying to fix these non-economic activities, which are mostly outside the purview of what the elites can control. So everything that can be transacted between market participants. 7+7+7 seems more arbitrary, but maybe there's some Satoshi jackpot reference I've never heard about.
If Satoshi meant 21 as half of 42 for the reasons you're explaining, I don't think that would be all there is to it. He seemed to just see money as a tool, so I don't see him designing a purely focused message of "money is half of the meaning of life." With the 7+7+7, mining bitcoin is a lot like re-rolling again and again on a slot machine. I assume that's at least part of the reference with the 21. It's also common for 21 to be used as a lucky number because of the 3x7 thing by my understanding
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satstacker 1 year ago
My kids talk about Satoshi and what they imagine he’s up to! Love this
I think he is facepalming all day. Because people call a completely transparent ledger which scales through custodial solutions "Freedom Money".
Or just shaking his/her head in disbelieve… This reminds me of the star trek movie “first contact” what was the guys name they built a monument for and he was just a drunken dude and freaked out and everyone admired him but himself
I'm thrilled to think about it actually, although I believe even if Satoshi is alive he could never do this. This time chain is like his child, the greatest kindness that a human could've done to his kind, what makes a man remembered for all future generations should naturally go down with history.