First post published. This feels different. Posting on social media you don’t really put much thought in it. At most, I just re-read it once and click the send button. I don’t truly edit, re-write, re-read, re-write again.
I’m happy to get back in it again.
Now on to the next one! 
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I remember this used to be an old tradition in Twitter, #followfriday just want to bring it here on #nostr
Suggest interesting accounts to follow here for #followfriday 😁
Thanks! Wrapping my head to the fact that Nostr is not a service nor is it a software. It is a set of protocols.
Protocols that anybody can choose to implement.
I just read this on X from Sean Murray:
WHY JACK DORSEY IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO
Jack Dorsey was:
1 of ~1,300 confirmed cypherpunks in 1996 (his UMR email)
Wore an Adam Back t-shirt in the UMR yearbook
UMR students were called Miners
Was a CompSci & Math major with an interest in crypto
Member of ACM in 1997 to at least 1999
Created academic research paper submission & review software for Mira Digital Publishing
Known to use: OpenBSD, Windows, Mac, Linux
Confirmed to code in: C, Python, Java, Perl, PHP, OCaml, JoCaml, Lisp, ObjC and more
Still on the cypherpunk mailing list in 2000 under his dnet .com email
Wrote a manifesto about making a mark without leaving a trace in 2001
Subscriber to cryptome .org in 2001
Made a blog post where he jokingly says he is working on a network for drug traffickers
Posted a bio in 2003 that says he is into crypto, pseudonyms, 4am hacks, and more
Posted in 2003 that he is ending his dependence on the US dollar and creating a barter network
Referred to himself as Jak instead of Jack. Jak was his pseudonym.
Jack, who was a sailor, tweeted on 8/17/08: Around the horn and home again, for that's the sailor's way". Bitcoin .org was registered the next day.
Jack's twitter profile from Sept '07 - Jan '09 said he was a sailor.
The original Bitcoin source code included an old sailor's adage. "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three"
The original Bitcoin source code documents are all timestamped as being created at exactly 4AM, just like Jack's bio
The original Bitcoin source code documents contain a brute forced example vanity bitcoin address that starts with NS17 (Nakamoto Satoshi 1/7 ). The documents were created 1/7/09.
Satoshi accidentally logged into IRC on 1/10/09 using a real IP, revealing he was in California (where Jack was)
The first bitcoin transaction took place on Jack's mom's birthday (1/11/09)
Satoshi joined the bitcoin forum on Jack's birthday (11/19)
Satoshi's last mined block was on Jack's dad's birthday (5/3/10)
Satoshi told Hal in an email about vanity bitcoin addresses and showed him a SECOND one beginning with NS.
Jack sends bitcoin to 4 addresses after Hal, including one that has jD2m in the middle.
Jack lived at 2 Mint Plaza in San Francisco. Jack Dorsey 2 Mint (jD2m).
Satoshi tells Martti Malmi that he is really busy with work. Jack was busy launching his next startup, Square (now Block)
Satoshi tells people on the forum not to donate Bitcoins to Wikileaks on 12/5/10
Twitter is hit with a secret court order with a gag requirement to turn over everything it has about Wikileaks on 12/14/10
Satoshi stopped logging into the forum on 12/13/10 and never returned
Jack is made Executive Chairman of Twitter while remaining CEO of Square on 3/28/11 and he tweets that he is very busy with both
Satoshi sends his last email on 4/23/11
Twitter's tech lead suggests that Twitter might integrate bitcoin payments on 5/23/11
Jack Dorsey calls Bitcoin an Amazing Movement in September 2012 and said that Square would accept it if it became huge and accepted.
Jack's best friend Alyssa Milano writes a novel (Hacktivist) in the Summer of 2013 about Jack, in which she places him as living a double life behind a famous pseudonym
Square announces Bitcoin acceptance on 3/31/14.
Satoshi's gmx email is hacked on 9/8/14 and the hacker attempts to extort Satoshi by sharing that he knows about his connection to St. Louis, Missouri. Jack is from St. Louis.
Alyssa Milano writes a 2nd novel about Jack (Hacktivist). In this one, Jack's famous pseudonym is hijacked and his software developed in a way that was not intended. The hijacker has a logo that looks almost exactly like Gavin Andresen's Bitcoin Faucet logo. It was released in installments with the first one going out on 7/29/15.
Two weeks later on 8/15/15, Satoshi reappears on the bitcoin mailing list to address the bitcoin block size debates. People are shocked about Satoshi's return and some doubt it is really him but could not disprove it.
On 10/15/15, Jack is made permanent CEO of Twitter, officially making him CEO of two companies.
The last installment of Milano's novel about Jack is published, in which its ends by him returning as head to his social network.
Square publishes a children's book in January 2018 to explain the "Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto" in which it makes its Satoshi character look like Jack.
On 4/20/20 Lex Fridman asks Jack if he is Satoshi, to which Jack tells him that he wouldn't admit it to him if he was. This is in contrast to Nick Szabo, Adam Back, and Hal Finney all saying explicitly that they were not Satoshi.
On 5/25/20 - 145 very old bitcoin addresses signed a message stating that Craig Wright was not Satoshi and that he was a liar and a fraud. The oldest bitcoin address that signed the message started with 1jak (Jack's old pseudonym) and the oldest that signed it contained HiSQ in the middle. SQ is the ticker for his company Square.
In February of 2022 Jack starts wearing a Satoshi shirt, first on a Michael Saylor podcast and then at the Super Bowl.
On 10/27/23, Jack said at a conference that "Bitcoin and Satoshi in 2009 was a combination of my childhood and my curiosity and everything that I aspired to be and everything I loved."
Craig Wright's attorneys argue in early 2024 that if Craig Wright was not Satoshi "then the real Satoshi would have been expected to come forward to counter the claim." It did not dawn on them that the person countering the claim was Jack Dorsey, who was the basis for the COPA v Wright legal challenge to begin with. Jack Dorsey came forward to counter the claim.
On 7/21/24 Jack wrote on Nostr, "I frequently imagine Satoshi sitting back somewhere and laughing at it all."
On 8/28/24 Jack went on Nostr and thanked Hal Finney (now deceased) for his help.
Jack parades himself around in a Satoshi shirt.
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The belief that Satoshi never wanted to be found is something that other people invented about Satoshi. Satoshi chose pseudonymity, not anonymity, as Jack so pointed out in a podcast with Lex Fridman. The reason why Jack would do all of the above, while not directly admitting it, is because Satoshi and bitcoin are his art. And it's a masterpiece. nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgstw3r3l
⚡️👤 A new theory claims that Jack Dorsey (nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgstw3r3l) is Satoshi Nakamoto.
This theory highlights his background in cryptography, his timestamp habits, and the surprising connections between the launch date of BTC and his personal life.
Here are some troubling arguments presented:
🔹 Jack Dorsey was one of ~1,300 confirmed cypherpunks in 1996 (his UMR email).
🔹 He wore an Adam Back t-shirt in the UMR directory.
🔹 UMR students were called "Miners."
🔹 He graduated in computer science and mathematics and had an interest in cryptography.
🔹 He was already on the cypherpunk mailing list in 2000 under his dnet.com email.
🔹 He wrote a manifesto about leaving a mark without leaving a trace in 2001.
🔹 He subscribed to cryptome.org in 2001.
🔹 He wrote a blog post joking that he was working on a network for drug traffickers.
🔹 He published a biography in 2003 stating his interest in cryptocurrencies, pseudonyms, and hacking at 4 AM, among other things.
🔹 In 2003, he announced he was ending his dependence on the US dollar and creating a barter network.
🔹 The documents of the original Bitcoin source code are all timestamped as having been created exactly at 4 AM, just like Jack’s bio.
🔹 The first Bitcoin transaction occurred on Jack's mother's birthday (1/11/09).
🔹 Satoshi joined the Bitcoin forum on Jack's birthday (11/19).
🔹 The last block mined by Satoshi occurred on Jack's father's birthday (5/3/10).
🔹 Jack's best friend, Alyssa Milano, wrote a novel (Hacktivist) in the summer of 2013 about Jack, portraying him living a double life behind a famous pseudonym.
🔹 Satoshi's gmx email was hacked on 08/09/14, and the hacker attempted to extort Satoshi by claiming he knew his connection to St. Louis, Missouri. Jack is from St. Louis.
🔹 Square published a children's book in January 2018 explaining the 'Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto,' where the character Satoshi resembles Jack.
🔹 On 04/20/20, Lex Fridman asked Jack if he was Satoshi, to which Jack replied that he wouldn’t confess even if he were. This contrasts with Nick Szabo, Adam Back, and Hal Finney, who all explicitly state they are not Satoshi.
🔹 On 10/27/23, Jack stated at a conference that 'Bitcoin and Satoshi in 2009 were a combination of my childhood, curiosity, and everything I aspired to and loved.'
🔹 On 07/21/24, Jack wrote on Nostr: 'I often imagine Satoshi sitting somewhere laughing at all of this.'
🔹 On 08/28/24, Jack went on Nostr and thanked Hal Finney (now deceased) for his help."
Is Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, the #bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto?
There are theories that say he is. You can read what other people had written about all the coincidence that lead them to think that Jack Dorsey is Satoshi. But here is what I find to be interesting.
During late 2008 and 2009 the time when the Bitcoin white-paper was published by Satoshi and the development of the initial Bitcoin network, Jack Dorsey was at that time the co-founder and CEO of Square, a new point-of-sale service that accepts credit and debit cards.
Imagine the CEO of a traditional POS company, traditional in the sense that it is using VISA / MasterCard and conventional banking facilities, is secretly working on a new p2p payment system that would challenge the conventional financial institution system.
It is as if the CEO of the centralised microblogging social media platform, Twitter, had initiated an initiative to create a competing decentralised protocol.
Imagine the CEO of Twitter, while being the CEO of Twitter, starts working on Bluesky.
Actually, that was exactly what happened. Jack Dorsey, was at that time the CEO of Twitter, when he announced the Bluesky initiative to explore the possibility of a decentralised Twitter.
That is crazy, it is like someone who is a board member of Bluesky, donated 14 Bitcoin — over a quarter million dollars at that time — to fund a competing decentralise social network protocol, #nostr .
This time, technically it didn’t exactly happen that way, if my research is correct, Jack Dorsey stepped down from Bluesky board of directors before making that donation to Nostr. But these two events happened in the same year, though.
“Never let them know your next move” ...... 
DeepSeek,
Deep Research,
Deep State.
We need to go deeper.
Nostr veterans help me understand how #nostr is censorship-resistant. Correct me if I get this wrong.
When you post, you are posting to relays, multiple relays perhaps. What is stopping relays from censoring you? To drop any post coming from you?
But then again anybody can run their own relays and anyone connected to that relay will be able to see your post. Hence this is what makes Nostr censorship-resistant, correct?
Technically you don't have to agree to any terms and conditions when you want to participate in the network.
Is my understanding correct?
The bones were not natural to him. His mutant power was that he can heal fast, so they operated on him and replace his bones with adamantium.
Did I get the lore correct #comic fans? nostr:note1l2pjv9pdthvp25cwzeds7nuk8zreqjls2lh32gfwexd9pghlkcts7x5m0a
Been thinking about this myself, and thought about a scenario where there is a freak large scale cosmic event that causes a permanent EMP-like effect, and all modern electronics are disabled, forever. 😱
The AI reasoning model outputs several paragraphs of its "thinking", only to give its final answer in a single short sentence, is me when I answer work emails. #ai
We are all so busy being the main character of our life story,
that we forget to be the supporting cast in other people's stories.
I just realised this, on #nostr sometimes your “2 cents” might actually worth 2 cents. I should post more here! #zapatr 
51 - Canada
52 - Greenland
53 - Panama
And now...
54 - Gaza ?
Dude is making bold opening moves. Perhaps this is The Art of the Deal. Let's see how it will play out. #politics
I had written about both Neuromancer and Snow Crash and how the futuristic stuff and concepts mentioned in both novels, are not too far off.
#cyberspace #metaverse #cyberpunk
https://jshamsul.com/essays/2024-07-19-cyberspace-and-metaverse
Did #deepseek get high-end Nvidia chips through #singapore The answer is no.
But it is crazy to think about the prospect of an actual GPU chip smuggling ring. It is like living in William Gibson / Neal Stephenson #cyberpunk novel. 
Cool! Thanks will definitely check this out!