nah, he was american, but he was studying at a belgian (flemish, northern) university at the time. and cryptography and security were his subjects. and he was known to be part of the cypherpunk mailing list, under his real identity.

anyway. meh. the superstition that has built up around bitcoin is starting to get tiring to me. i think it's important, and i use it all the time as money, but i don't have a lot of faith in the majority of software projects working with it, or the increasing financialisation and paperification that is going on. these people are obviously doing it wrong because otherwise, why is self custody still so rare? and why are so many of them building sidechains or bank integrations?

i'm more interested in stacking survival skills and good friends now than anything else. bitcoin is part of that but the people are much more important.