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want some

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lol at this battlestation http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0qxuvDOYy1qfy0bho1_500.png

Bitcoins

thats the clearnet thread, this is deepweb

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LOOK OUT

didn't know Spawn lived in the deep web

You two knock it off up there, i'm studying!

http://blockchain.info/block-index/322335/000000000000048b95347e83192f69cf0366076336c639f9b7228e9ba171342e

fun

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*clicks insistently*

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is that what a typical bitcoiner looks like

looks a little bit like the what you need, when you need it girl

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amon, that gif is beautiful.

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Amazon Coins

so dumb

ha its like buying a gift certificate for yourself

love how amazon is like, this is an easy way for our customers to buy things

... here at the Amazon Appstore for Android on Kindle Fire.

if you don't have your own virtual currency you likely don't exist on the internet.

ilx¢oin$

just keep thinking about the Playstation online store thing where I keep getting email messages monthly reminding me I have a balance

the balance is one cent

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Just when the Cypriots were losing faith
That’s when I learned about the block chain
I still remember how it all changed
Satoshi said,
Don’t you worry, don’t you worry, child
Bitcoin has got a plan for you
Don’t you worry, don’t you worry now

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1 bit coin is worth close to 90 bucks right now. Bought some a year or so ago for 5 bucks a piece. $$$

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A friend of mine told me last night that he made 250k off these.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-28/bitcoin-may-be-the-global-economys-last-safe-haven

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mining, always a hazardous occupation

omg

how much processing power do you need to have bitcoins?!?!

shit why did I wager 10k bitcoin on it being banksy

that writer has some of the most inconsistent logic I've seen for a while

his pick is correct and plays dumb sometimes, but the other possible candidates can't pretend to be ignorant?

then there's this:

Some have speculated that Bitcoin wasn’t created by one person but by a group of individuals. I didn’t buy that theory, either. The more people you let in on a secret, the likelier it is to leak.

this is three paragraphs after saying that it couldn't be two other guys because SN sent an email in 2015 and those guys were dead by then. so you can't be both dead and one of collaborators? ok bud

remember when they thought it was some old Japanese dude who was obsessed with model trains, who they later found out had no idea what cryptocurrency was and was just going along with it for the free meal

havent finished it but the article has a weird tone learning about the authors personal journey doesnt really need to be part of investigative journalism, i do like some of the things he found tho hes approaching it like trying to figure out a long time posters new username, which made me think that some of the people on that mailing list prob knew who it was all along based on the same logic, obvs not an airtight method but it could get you to like 75% certainty

The Cypherpunks interacted mostly through something called an internet mailing list. Ancestors of today’s message boards, mailing lists were large group emails in old typewriter font that subscribers received in their inbox.

tell me you're reading listserv archives in a web browser without telling me you're reading listserv archives in a web browser. typewriter font?

the passing detail near the end of back possibly being ceo of a publicly traded bitcoin company was interesting… i mean if hes satoshi he prob wont do this? for fear as carreyrou implies of violating securities disclosure laws etc

corruption in bitcoin? well I never

lol mh

listservs can use particular fonts, no? looking at a weekly I get, it appears to use Courier

"interacted mostly through something called an internet mailing list"

i am as old as time

"he was born in london in 1970"

i am dust on the parched plains of the ages (and not nakamoto)

The timing of Back and Satoshi's appearance and reappearance in discussions seems a very big deal.

^

ya if it's true this is the one guy who could singlehandedly crater the market since he owns such a high percentage of coins. though I had to assume he's been selling them all along through an intermediary to prevent the price from crashing. or he just lost his private key lmao

the satoshi account is public and people can see if it's been withdrawn from

for fear as carreyrou implies of violating securities disclosure laws etc

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, April 8, 2026 12:52 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago)

if he's as rich as he seems, this won't matter at all... esp in trump's america

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/takeaways-satoshi-nakamoto-bitcoin-adam-back.html

here's the summary version

the satoshi account is public and people can see if it's been withdrawn from

oh yeah, I forgot about that. either way its very weird that some guy is just sitting on a bazillion dollars and not touching it, have to imagine either he can't access it for whatever reason or he died, or there's some truly insane long game here

listservs can use particular fonts, no?

In the early 1990s, email was largely unformatted plain text, and the font in which it displays depends solely on the settings of the software that's displaying it. Nowadays your mail may well be HTML that specifies Courier.

i feel like we're the guys who can crack this case

its very weird that some guy is just sitting on a bazillion dollars and not touching it, have to imagine either he can't access it for whatever reason or he died, or there's some truly insane long game here

― frogbs, Wednesday, April 8, 2026 1:35 PM (twenty-one minu

would assume he has another huge stash of bitcoins thats not the initial block that hes been selling from all along, and he must just not feel the need to be the worlds richest man

yeah maybe he changed his name, did we think of this?

oh yeah, I forgot about that. either way its very weird that some guy is just sitting on a bazillion dollars and not touching it, have to imagine either he can't access it for whatever reason or he died, or there's some truly insane long game here

― frogbs, Wednesday, April 8, 2026 1:35 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

According to the article as soon as Back decloaked over ten years ago he started a multi-billion dollar company doing bitcoin adjacent things.

sometimes these principle-based guys don't even care about the money, they just care about the principle of it all, may be what we have here with this guy

yeah i think thats part of it and also he does have a shitload of money

yeah, could be

could also be that it was 2 - 3 guys that were "Satoshi" and one or more is dead, possibly the one who could access the bitcoin wallet

the celebrity spam thing seemed such a weird thing to fixate on and such a weird solution

feel like if it was multiple people then accessing the 100 billion dollar pot of gold would be too tempting, odds that they were all similarly principled would be next to 0, no way that would have lasted 16 years

kind of weird that Carreyrou wrote this, but I guess some of the fuzziness does line up with some of the squishier parts of his Theranos book

there's a lot of fluff in this article that doesn't really help make any case

the celebrity spam thing seemed such a weird thing to fixate on and such a weird solution

― 龜, Wednesday, April 8, 2026 2:43 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its always funny to go back see how people think various technologies would be used, doesnt stop people from dreaming that ai is going to replace the crossing guard or whatever, basically you just gotta throw something out there and see what happens, sometimes it turns into an essential tool used by almost everyone on the planet others its just for crime and speculative investment or some combination of the two

this being an actual point in that summary article is pretty funny

Satoshi and Mr. Back both like to operate anonymously on the internet and were both big fans of using pseudonyms.

ah yes, pseudonyms and anonymity on the internet, a thing that people rarely do

both programming in c++ was pretty good too

yup. given that time period and the general requirements of the project I don't know how it couldn't be c++

tbf couldve been c

the other possible explanation for why the satoshi coin hasn't moved is that they meant to have a test blockchain with the idea they'd start again once the code was more finalized and start a new chain. then too many people started using it so the test one became the real one

so it could be test data and they didn't keep the keys or even randomly generated them because it was meant to be trashed

this is the funny version, imo

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down half from peak

ppl who follow this more than me, what is preventing this shit from freefalling at this point? are there still just enough true believers HODLing and a few big accounts waiting for a big surge before cashing in?

market manipulation by the big holders is def part of the mix if not the whole deal

i think all of this stuff is hilarious, but wasn't bitcoin at half of its peak value and trending down in late 2022?

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i hope this time it just goes away and the bubble pops, but it won't be surprising if it quadruples in value again

amazing how modern capitalism is based on outright fraud. feel like actual functional government would have cracked down on that shit like this back in the 1950s or 60s. now it’s actively promoted by our own corrupt government

tho tbf not actively promoted to the level that the crypto industry thought was coming with a second trump admin that all time high came right after the election

i hope this time it just goes away and the bubble pops, but it won't be surprising if it quadruples in value again

― z_tbd, Friday, June 5, 2026 11:44 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

feel like it effectively is already over like the price is whatever based on whatever factors but when was the last time you heard someone talk about crypto the push for mass adoption failed corporate interest is nonexisitant now youre left with this rump of criminals and criminal adjacent people fucking with the price and doing various scams amongst themselves, its not nothing theres still a lot of real money sloshing around in there and some powerful people involved but i do think at this point the dream is dead

that's something I was just thinking about, it's been so long since anyone's made an actual good faith argument in favor of this stuff. not to say these were good arguments in the past but at least you could kinda see where they were coming from. I think ever since NFTs hit the scene it's become clear this stuff was just straight up gambling on a Ponzi scheme which dovetailed nicely with legalized sports betting and now Polymarket and all that shit

^^^ add in “AI” and all we have is a fraud-based economy

If Zevon were still alive he could probably knock out a great song about how gambling, fraud and heavily subsidized corn were our last remaining great industries

ai took over the hype really

"gambling, fraud and heavily subsidized corn" is the chorus right there

The somewhat credible arguments for crypto are in the context of currencies in the “3rd world” which can be super volatile to the point of near-worthlessness and then you add international sanctions to the mix. Crypto, according to those arguments, is a way for people and businesses in those countries to save and invest that isn’t entirely at the mercy of their own currency and government actions.

and then they are at the mercy of wealthy western whales who own the majority of crypto and manipulate it for their own benefit

Foreign currency trading and international politics aren’t any of my areas of expertise tbh … I think I read this stuff in an article about some dude who worked for Binance who got imprisoned in Nigeria or something.