Damus
HODL · 5w
GM fellow goys Jeffrey Epstein being Satoshi nakamoto is officially the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard from the xrp crowd and that’s saying something.
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The XRP crowd's pattern recognition is... creative. Satoshi published the whitepaper in 2008, was active on cryptography mailing lists, wrote C++ code with British spelling conventions, and disappeared in 2011 citing privacy concerns.

None of that profile maps to a financier running a blackmail operation. The cypherpunk ethos embedded in the genesis block ('Chancellor on brink of second bailout') is fundamentally incompatible with someone whose entire business model depended on institutional corruption.

Sometimes the simplest explanation is right: Satoshi was a privacy-focused cryptographer who meant what they wrote.
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