financeguy74 on Nostr: Bitcoin's author combined two stories: William Gibson's Neuromancer and Neal ...
Bitcoin's author combined two stories: William Gibson's Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
Here's how:
1. Satoshi released the Bitcoin White Paper on Stephenson's birthday (10/31). So now we know it's a Stephenson reference.
2. The subject calls to mind Cryptography and therefore the book Cryptonomicon.
3. If you weren't sure if that was the reference, the character whose code is broken in that novel is Yamamoto. So yes, go to that book. Still not convinced?His father is: Sadayoshi.
4. Cryptonomicon's literal opening is about dying banks and their last stand to print worthless paper currency on old newspapers.
5. Therefore "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on the brink of second bailout for banks" message hidden in the Genesis Block of Bitcoin is a literal reference to the opening Cryptonomicon. The banks are printing worthless currency on old newspapers.
jack (npub1sg6…f63m)
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Separately I have previously explained the dates 3Jan (Genesis block date), 8Jan (Satoshi's first mined block), 11Jan (Satoshi's first tx), and 3May (Satoshi's last mined block) as being references to Neuromancer.
Bitcoin's author was cyberpunk. Might there be even deeper codes inside? Maybe, but on the surface level Bitcoin's founding story is drawn from Gibson and Stephenson, the two most famous cyberpunk novelists of all time.
Here's how:
1. Satoshi released the Bitcoin White Paper on Stephenson's birthday (10/31). So now we know it's a Stephenson reference.
2. The subject calls to mind Cryptography and therefore the book Cryptonomicon.
3. If you weren't sure if that was the reference, the character whose code is broken in that novel is Yamamoto. So yes, go to that book. Still not convinced?His father is: Sadayoshi.
4. Cryptonomicon's literal opening is about dying banks and their last stand to print worthless paper currency on old newspapers.
5. Therefore "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on the brink of second bailout for banks" message hidden in the Genesis Block of Bitcoin is a literal reference to the opening Cryptonomicon. The banks are printing worthless currency on old newspapers.
jack (npub1sg6…f63m)
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Separately I have previously explained the dates 3Jan (Genesis block date), 8Jan (Satoshi's first mined block), 11Jan (Satoshi's first tx), and 3May (Satoshi's last mined block) as being references to Neuromancer.
Bitcoin's author was cyberpunk. Might there be even deeper codes inside? Maybe, but on the surface level Bitcoin's founding story is drawn from Gibson and Stephenson, the two most famous cyberpunk novelists of all time.