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There is much more for bitcoin than Satoshi. let’s celebrate!
Today is the disappearance of Satoshi, as Declared In 2011, on this day by early contributor Kiba.
“Since Satoshi has been confirmed not to return, the bitcoin community now (is) to whisk for themselves,” Kiba wrote.
“I propose that we create a bitcoin holiday in honor of our mythological anonymous founder and inspect the fact that the bitcoin community will be cured after the inventor of bitcoin leaves. Even if Gavin collides with the bus tomorrow, we can live.”
Gavin Andresen had exposure Their adjacent meeting with the CIA, both privately with Satoshi and publicly on the Bitcointock Forum, only a few days ago.
On this day – Satoshi missing days
What Kiba said came true. Ever since Satoshi left, other contributors have worked together to release 73 new versions of the software to become a multi-trilian dollar assets of bitcoin.
At that time, the developers have pushed large and small upgrades, reducing bugs and capacity. DisastersThe creator of bitcoin was otherwise only half a dozen or around it, even if they imagined and made the original version by themselves.
We cannot even pull a straight line between Gavin’s CIA visit and the disappearance of Satoshi. Gavin announced that he was to meet with the CIA, in an email, Satoshi had already mentioned for another early developer, Mike Hern, that he had “moved to other things.”
But considering Satoshi clearly never responded to Gavin’s email, very at least we can assume that this helped to confirm his decision.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin was attracting mainstream media with Andy Greenburg Article In Forbes, “Crypto currency”, running in the week, which disappears on the day of inauguration Satoshi.
This article is the ancestor of the “Super Shady Kodar” trop, which has since plagued the political crypto discourse. It accidentally describes bitcoin developers as Gavin’s “underground cadre of cypherpanks”, working on anonymous money, used to buy illegal drugs outside government inspections – an image against which Satoshi wanted to push back.
“I want you to talk about me as a mysterious shady figure, the press simply turns into a pirate currency angle,” Satoshi told Gavin. “Perhaps make it about the open source project instead and give more credit to your Dev contributors; it helps to inspire them.”
Gavin was not happy with the theme “Vesi Pirate Money”, and agreed that more credit for other contributors was a great idea.
“On a completely different subject: I did something that I hope will be smart, but could be stupid,” Gavin said. He was contacted by an enterprise capital firm, IN-Q-Tail, established by the CIA, which shows and invests in state-of-the-art technologies that will benefit American agencies.
IN-Q-Tail invited Gavin to his annual conference on emerging technologies, “money dynamics” about that year.
“He asked if I am ready to talk about bitcoin, and I committed to attend a 50 -minute performance and participate in a panel discussion,” Gavin wrote in her Email,
“I hope that by talking directly to ‘them’ and, even more importantly, he will think of bitcoin by listening to their questions/concerns, the way I do-as just a single-plane-winter, more efficient, less-subject-to-political-wealth-not to be used by the Arazaktistians as a omnipotent.”
Gavin found himself between a rock and a difficult place. “It can be really stupid if it only enhances the visibility of bitcoin on (CIA) radar, but I think it’s too late for it; Bitcoin is already on his radar,” he told Satoshi.
He was also transparent about the journey. Gavin shared her presentation on Bitcointock shortly after (full version is still available Arithmetic) And quickly appeared to discuss the meeting at Bruce Wagner’s The Bitcoin show.
“After thinking very difficult about it, I decided that I would do it because it is an open-source project. I thought, you know, going to the CIA and talking about bitcoins very openly and what he can do, it will not hurt the project. It’s not a secret,” Gavin said. podcast,
The conference itself was a three -day program with the first day’s disgrace, which meant that Gavin could discuss it, while the other two were classified. Gavin said that there were people of Payal and Facebook in attendance, as well as economists of the Federal Reserve.
Related to Why The CIA may be interested in bitcoin, Gavin can only speculate like the rest of us.
“I mean, of course, you know, individual payment is part of the CIA, and therefore a payment system that they can use to (pay), someone is secretly very interesting for them,” Gavin said.
For those people after more conspiracy, it can help: Gavin sold bitcoins to a CIA agent at the conference. “I had some people who later came to me and said he felt that bitcoin is really good. An interesting conversation: I really sold a bitcoin when I was there for one of the CIA people.”
“I showed Bitbills – I had a pair of bitbills in my wallet as an example of a physical bitcoin that you can catch. He said that it was very good and wanted to buy one from me so that he could show his boss. Bitcoin traded around $ 15 at that time.
So there you have it. If CIA “Lab Leakes” written Any weight about Satoshi (if there is a large “if”), then it took only two and a half years for your own to return to the headquarters with a real bitcoin (this is now about 6,500x more).
Happy Satoshi missing day!
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