The human race is clinging to mysteries which are bordering on obsessions.
The moon landing — did we actually go, and if we did, is the footage real? And what about the pyramids — built by laborers and farmers, or were those 80-ton granite blocks actually set in place by ancient alien technology?
Satoshi’s real identity is a strange cultural anomaly that hasn’t stopped.
Craig Wright led this particular media circus over many years until the courts took legal action against him. Wright’s error has been proved, and now we are all doomed.
Over the past six-month period, there have been multiple new attempts to revive the Nakamoto narrative. Cullen Hoback’s Money Electric, The Bitcoin Mystery was the first documentary on HBO. A new Channel 4 documentaire lacked any compelling evidence or tangible theories.
It is worth reading my take on HBO’s conclusion, which was that the longtime Bitcoin contributor Peter Todd, who had been hiding in plain view, was actually Satoshi.
Between those releases we also received threads about X. One of them was from Matthew Sigel who is head of VanEck’s digital asset research. He suggested tech billionaire Jack Dorsey as the person behind the Nakamoto name.
Veteran Bitcoiner Jameson Lopp shared his method of debunking the Dorsey theory during a premiere episode of Supply Shock on Thursday — a brand-new Bitcoin brand and podcast hosted by Bitcoin Historian Pete Rizzo.
Lopp busted a previous suggestion that Hal Finney is Nakamoto, by proving Finney competed in Santa Barbara in the 10-mile race at the time Nakamoto emailed early developer Mike Hearn.
Lopp eventually found that after combing through Dorsey’s older Twitter posts it was almost impossible for Dorsey coordinate a dual life as Nakamoto. This led him to dismiss the theory.
“I think a lot of the people who are accused of being Satoshi candidates are Bitcoin legends in their own right,” Lopp told Rizzo.
“Like they don’t have to be Satoshi — they have contributed in a variety of different ways to being Satoshi in the way that we are all Satoshi, right? It’s like anyone who contributes to [Bitcoin] is essentially building upon the legacy where Satoshi, you know, left the project open to the world so that anyone who cared could contribute to it.”
It’s obvious, but here is the truth: No one can prove a theory. The only legitimate proof would be to sign a transaction with one of Satoshi’s keys — but even if someone did, we would likely never know for sure how those keys came into their possession — sending us on a never-ending loop of inconclusive proof.
The Satoshi debate should be relegated to boring normie talk points like the Apollo moon landing or the Pyramids.
You won’t be seeing me around Empire much in the near future. It’s time to go on a quest of the spirit. I want to know more about Bitcoin, which I heard is a huge deal. It has been an honor.
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