Did you ever stop and *really* think about what it means to "do a Satoshi Nakamoto"?

Context for my weird question: I have met many, many bitcoiners over the years. Many of them take a stab at keeping privacy by doing some combo of: not revealing name, not revealing location, not revealing face. Etc. So often, if I happen to meet them in person, they end up revealing the things that they were hiding online. Quite literally a mask came off (pre covid!) once we started drinking - a simple, funny anecdotal example of what I mean. Many complain about photos being taken, many focus on always using a pseudonym. I'm sure most people reading recognize these patterns of behaviour.

I can see the purpose, up to a point, so this is not criticism. It's a little like me doing coinjoin "here and there" - you don't expect to defend yourself against a hyper powerful aggressor, only against a casual criminal looking for an easy score.

But if you do want *real* defence against *strong* attackers, you have a huge problem. These half-measures will be useless, perhaps worse than that, if you get overconfident, because the determined investigator only needs *one* strand to pull on, and the measures I describe above, which are almost always rules only half-stuck to anyway, don't cut it, at all.

Which brings me to my point: is it even possible to "go all the way"? Clearly it is; Satoshi Nakamoto is not the only person who's ever done it, but it's pretty damn rare at the very least.

Imagine what it would mean. If you are engaged in a serious project, that takes let's say at least a year's worth of full time work, then you are going to do that for no reward. Not just, no money, people do that quite often when it comes to things they genuinely enjoy, but no recognition, no social context, not even "oh I won't bother you because I know you're busy with that project". Nobody will say that because nobody will know. Imagine doing a full, intense 8 hour day of work (more likely, split over many days) and knowing that there will *never* be a direct reward of any form, for that. And then doing it again, and again.

What's more, you don't just "not get a reward". You have to do almost double the work, to ensure that at every step, every pushed commit or technical discussion, does not expose anything at the network trace level, or the language, vocabulary etc. Managing tricky pseudonym accounts, handling the headaches of Tor etc. I'm not trying to say it needs super-genius level tech skills, I'm trying to say it's a massive amount of effort.

Could you do that? I daren't even ask the question of myself, because I'm almost sure it's a no. But to *imagine* where that kind of motivation would come from, that's what fascinates me.

Men will literally do 100 pushups a day and buy #Bitcoin and not need therapy.

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I can see the potential, but I need to find my friends if this is going to work

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Nostrich = You

Zap = lightning payment

GFY = Hi

PV = Cool

Odell = Ultra cool

Relay = data rebroadcast server

Client = App you use to interact with nostr

Npub/Public key = Username

Nsec/Private key = Password

GM = Good morning

GN = Good night

GA = Good afternoon

GE = Good evening

NIP = Part of a list of programming proposals

DM = Message in private

Boost = Repost

Note = Post

Purple = Color of nostr

NWC = A way of connecting your lightning wallet

PFP = Profile photo

NIP05 = Blue checkmark

Nostr. wine ≠ Alcoholic beverage

JSON ≠ Jason

Ugh, I’m not sure how long I can keep up this carnivore lifestyle. I’m only on day 4 and I’m already sick of meat and eggs. I’ve never been a steak eater and having so much now kinda puts me off. Chicken, pork, same story - I’m ok having some here and there but as a core part of the meal every time is kinda tiring. I can’t imagine doing this for a month.

I do like that I’m not eating all the other sugar junk. I feel like the health benefits are great but I miss variety of foods. I like salads. I like my breakfast skillets 😆

I’ll keep going for my goal of 8 days to see how it goes but not looking optimistic 😔

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Serious ?

Why do you (others) think Elon is making this blatant strategic blunder?

Misunderstanding?

Ego?

Holding out?

Government pressure?

???

If they did that why is it a problem to ask their balance then? Seems they did this to themselves? I may be confused.

Omg. Collaborative nostr posting!

I made a spelljng mistaek and someone proposed a correction to my post. I accepted it and boom - corrected! That's insane! I've never seen such a thing anywhere before.

My mind is blown. Kudos to the devs.

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Last lunch in Madeira

Very annoyed with myself that I lost the keys to my first #nostr account.

I got into nostr at ground level but then lost motivation...that is until I just heard @jack talk @BitcoinAtlantis.

700 followers gone.

But jack said it is a choice. I have made the choice to start again. It's worth it to me.

It sucks that guys often don't have anyone to talk to about the things they are dealing with.

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