Facts Referenced in This Fiction

This story is fiction, but it is built on the following documented facts and widely accepted historical details:

1. Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto

A real individual living in Temple City, California.

Worked as an engineer on classified defense projects.

Known to be private, reserved, and meticulous.

Publicly confirmed that Satoshi is his given middle name and Nakamoto his family name.

Known to enjoy technical hobbies, including model trains and precision engineering.

2. Hal Finney

A real cryptographer and Caltech graduate.

Active member of the cypherpunk movement.

Worked on early digital cash systems prior to Bitcoin.

Lived in close geographic proximity to Dorian Nakamoto in Southern California.

Was the first known recipient of a Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto.

Contributed code, feedback, and testing to Bitcoin in its earliest days.

3. Temporal and Geographic Overlap

Both men lived in Southern California in the mid-to-late 2000s.

Bitcoin’s whitepaper was released in 2008.

The timeline allows for plausible but unproven indirect encounters.

4. Bitcoin Terminology

The term “timechain” appears in early Bitcoin discussions and is conceptually accurate as a description of the blockchain as a time-ordered ledger.

Bitcoin’s structure enforces strict ordering of blocks through time.

Blocks are linked cryptographically in sequence.

5. Bitcoin Mechanics (Metaphorically Referenced)

Transactions are grouped into blocks.

Only one block is accepted at each block height.

Miners compete via Proof-of-Work to add the next block.

Nodes independently verify blocks and enforce consensus rules.

The chain progresses forward in time and cannot be altered retroactively without immense cost.

6. Pseudonym Use

Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym.

The true identity of Bitcoin’s creator remains unknown.

The name itself has never been cryptographically or legally linked to any known individual.