“just by chance”
the p2pkh address being awarded the coins from the genesis block starts with A1. How fitting for a genesis.
Yes, satoshi was already thinking in p2pkh as he showed one such address to Hal as an example with his initials in Jan 2009.
“just by chance” an address he had started with NS, the initials for Nakamoto Satoshi. And Satoshi said that that one could brute force initials to create vanity addresses. He “just thought” of it.
“Just by chance.”
all just by chance i’m sure.
nothing to look into or look at. just random
"If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry"
I’m not sure if you still look at twitter/X nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m . I think what i’ve found is quite compelling along with everything else. Surely bitcoin is what you were born to do either way. Respect to you.
Best and final answer nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
Satoshi Nakamoto’s decoded message
from HomeFTP (Cryptonomicon)
Jack I know i’m a little weird and you can say “no the jd is not me” but you are a big bitcoin fan and this finally explain’s hal’s hesitance to share his emails with Satoshi. The key was in them. Decoding the message it says:
By LS (Lake Street?) in the Heights, He’s JD, 1 DUDE from San Francisco, from HomeFTP (Cryptonomicon’s home FTP Server in San Francisco)
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m Surely you would appreciate this decoded message at the very least.
Satoshi gave the key to Hal Finney to Decrypt the code.
"I just thought of something. Eventually there'll be some interest in brute force scanning bitcoin addresses to find one with the first few characters customized to your name, kind of like getting a phone number that spells out something. Just by chance I have my initials."
1. Satoshi sends from 12cbQLTFMXRnSzktFkuoG3eHoMeFtpTu3S
which says HomeFTP (San Francisco from Cryptonomicon)
And then he sends 4 more transactions to the following addresses:
1DUDsfc23Dv9sPMEk5RsrtfzCw5ofi5sVW
1 DUD, SF
1 Dude, San Francisco
1LzBzVqEeuQyjD2mRWHes3dgWrT9titxvq
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13HtsYzne8xVPdGDnmJX8gHgBZerAfJGEf
Hts
The Heights
1ByLSV2gLRcuqUmfdYcpPQH8Npm8cccsFg
By LS
By Lake Street
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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.
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Heading to Ireland tomorrow to be on site for the launch party of the journal my Irish research paper is in!
Well that’s interesting nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
Decrypting Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon Solitaire Cipher gives you... Jack Dorsey as Satoshi Nakamoto?
Cryptonomicon Solitaire Cipher Opening
Top card: 53
Bottom card: 11 (a Jack)
Satoshi's first transaction: 1/11
Jack's mom's birthday: 1/11
Satoshi's last mined block: 5/3
Jack's dad's birthday: 5/3
The use of real innovative cryptography from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon was the introduction of the Solitaire Cipher using a deck of cards (look it up. It was made just for this book).
In the story, the author sets up the formula to decrypt the code by grabbing the Joker at the top of the deck with a value of 53, and he says to count down 53 cards from the top of the deck to the last card...
"And that card happens to be the Jack of Clubs, with a value of 11. Eleven, then is the first number in the keystream," the author says.
Thus, the introduction to the cipher is plain as day.
A value of 53 counted down to the value of 11 reveals a... Jack.