A Secret Message in Bitcoin's first ever Transaction

Satoshi is in San Francisco

The first ever bitcoin transaction sent from Satoshi to Hal Finney on January 11, 2009 has a secret code embedded in Satoshi's address. Specifically, Satoshi tells Hal hours after he sends the coins that one can brute force addresses to get vanity messages. He uses an example address that includes his initials "NS" in the address. While most people interpret that to mean Nakamoto Satoshi or as a hint that it was really Nick Szabo, I've previously said it was further tribute to Neal Stephenson (since the White Paper came out on Stephenson's birthday) and it's not the message itself that was even supposed to be relevant, it's supposed to be the key to Hal (and the world) to look for the message in the first transaction itself! Hint hint.

Specifically Satoshi sends 10 btc from

12cbQLTFMXRnSzktFkuoG3eHoMeFtpTu3S in block 170

Which indeed has a vanity message. It says HomeFTP.

Which could mean anything or be a coincidental alignment of characters which would be even more coincidental since Satoshi literally just told Hal about vanity addresses. Except it's not coincidence because like so many other Bitcoin references I say came from Stephenson's Cryptonomicon novel, HomeFTP comes from Cryptonomicon.

"Another thing he did this morning was to download the current version of the Cryptonomicon from the ftp server where it lives in San Francisco," is a quote and information presented in the novel itself that the Home FTP Server of Cryptonomicon is in San Francisco.

Satoshi lived in San Francisco.