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Melon
@MelonBTC
Not an influencer. No reflinks. No bullshit. No sponsorships.
Andromeda Katılım Ocak 2018
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⚡️Hal Finney is Satoshi Nakamoto. Every piece of evidence points the same direction. Here’s why:
Finney was running a beta version of Bitcoin in January 2009 within days of Satoshi releasing the software. That’s not the behavior of an interested observer. That’s the behavior of someone who already knew the code intimately because they helped write it. Nobody else jumped in that fast. Everyone else took weeks or months to even understand what Bitcoin was. Finney was running it immediately.
The proof of work system at the heart of Bitcoin is a direct evolution of Finney’s RPOW system from 2004. RPOW stood for Reusable Proof of Work. It solved the exact problem Bitcoin’s mining mechanism solves. Finney built it five years before Bitcoin existed. The conceptual lineage from RPOW to Bitcoin’s mining is so direct that anyone reading both would conclude they were built by the same mind. The Bitcoin mechanism is not just inspired by RPOW. It’s RPOW with the trust assumption removed by adding a blockchain. That’s an iteration on his own work, not someone else’s.
He had been working on cryptographic digital cash systems for over a decade before Bitcoin launched. He was on the cypherpunks mailing list for years. He worked at PGP Corporation under Phil Zimmermann, the most important cryptography company of the era. His career trajectory was building toward something exactly like Bitcoin. The white paper was the natural conclusion of his entire prior body of work.
The geography is too specific to be coincidence. Hal Finney lived in Temple City, California. Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto lived in Temple City, California. They lived a few blocks from each other. The pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto was lifted from a man living in the same neighborhood as Finney. The probability of this being random is essentially zero. Either Finney chose the name because he knew Dorian existed nearby, or somebody who somehow knew Dorian’s name and Finney’s neighborhood happened to be the actual Satoshi, which is much less plausible than the first explanation.
The Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg analyzed Finney’s writing style against Satoshi’s writings using textual analysis tools. The match was significantly higher than for any other candidate. The vocabulary, the sentence structure, the punctuation patterns, the use of British spellings inconsistently which would be characteristic of an American who occasionally affected British style. All of it lined up.
The timing of Satoshi’s exit aligns precisely with Finney’s medical decline. Satoshi started reducing involvement in Bitcoin in mid 2010. Finney was diagnosed with ALS in August 2009 and his physical capabilities began deteriorating throughout 2010. By 2011, when Satoshi went completely silent, Finney could barely use a computer. He had to use eye tracking software for the rest of his life. The timeline of Satoshi’s withdrawal matches the timeline of Finney’s progressive paralysis with eerie precision.
The Satoshi wallets containing approximately one million Bitcoin have never been touched. Not a single coin moved in sixteen years. This is consistent with a Satoshi who is physically dead. Finney died in August 2014. The wallets remained untouched before and after his death. His body was cryogenically preserved. The keys, if he was Satoshi, were either destroyed, lost, or held by his wife Fran. She has consistently said she doesn’t have access to them and doesn’t know if they exist anywhere.
The fact that no Satoshi coin has ever moved is the strongest evidence that whoever Satoshi was, they’re either dead or incapable of accessing the keys. A living Satoshi who could move coins would have done so for any number of reasons over sixteen years. Tax planning. Charitable giving. Even just to demonstrate continued life. Nothing has happened. The simplest explanation is that Satoshi died and the keys died with him.
Finney’s behavior in the early Bitcoin community was strange in ways that fit. He was the most technically capable person involved. He clearly understood Bitcoin at a depth that exceeded everyone else. But he played the role of an enthusiastic outsider who happened to be very interested in the project. That’s a position someone takes when they want to participate in their own creation without admitting authorship. Other early contributors deferred to him on technical questions and he deferred back to Satoshi, even when his answers and Satoshi’s answers were structurally identical.
The other candidates don’t fit as cleanly. Nick Szabo has the conceptual fingerprint through bit gold but doesn’t match the implementation work. He’s also been publicly active in ways that someone trying to maintain anonymity wouldn’t be. Adam Back has the cryptographic background but his style doesn’t match. Wei Dai has the conceptual background but his style and timing don’t match. Craig Wright is a documented fraud who has been judicially proven to have forged evidence multiple times. Dorian Nakamoto is just an unrelated retired engineer who shares a name.
Finney is the only candidate where every variable lines up. The technical capability. The conceptual lineage. The geographic proximity to Dorian. The writing style. The behavioral patterns in the early Bitcoin community. The timing of withdrawal matching ALS progression. The wallets never moving matching his death. The family’s denial being expected regardless of truth.
There’s no candidate where this many independent variables converge. With Finney, basically every piece of evidence points the same direction. With everyone else, you have to explain away the variables that don’t fit.
With Finney, you don’t have to explain anything.
It just makes sense.
Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong
The Finding Satoshi documentary is the most thoughtful take on this subject I've seen out there. It's coming out tomorrow, but Coinbase users can get early access today. Open your Coinbase app to find out more!
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@Rajatsoni Thank you sir any other obvious insights you would like to enlighten us with?
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I really hope you're noticing a pattern here
When Peter Schiff sees gold go down, he sees it as a temporary pullback
When he sees Bitcoin going down, he starts claiming that it's going to zero
He is biased and he doesn't even realize it

Peter Schiff@PeterSchiff
In the early months of the 2008 GFC, gold crashed 32%, about 40% of its prior bull-market gain. After gold bottomed, it surged 178% over the next three years. Gold nearly hit $4,100 today, down 27%, about 40% of its gain since $2K. A 178% surge from that low puts gold at $11,400.
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@KingKong9888 @LukeGromen RMB can be used to purchase goods from China and balance trade. Doesn’t have to be converted.
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@MDBitcoin People bought in anticipation of a global turmoil. We are in global turmoil so they sold. Not sure what the problem is here it performed exactly as one would expect.
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Honestly, this should make gold bugs uncomfortable.
We just watched a real stress test, and gold failed it.
This is supposed to be gold’s moment.
Instead,
gold went from roughly $5,600/oz at the late-January high to about $4,354/oz by today.
that’s about $7.3 TRILLION erased.
A "safe haven" that breaks when the world gets more dangerous is not as safe as advertised.
I’ve studied this long enough to know the difference between a story people repeat and an asset that actually survives pressure.
Gold still has history.
But history didn’t save it from getting wrecked when the market finally mattered.
Where are the gold bugs?

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@s_m_marandi Maybe gulf arabs should reconquer you again and make you humble like they did in the past. You would be better off under their rule.
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@Simon_Ingari Entry level salaries are very low. Employees with seigniorage already received high merit increases and other benefits. Doesn’t matter now as most of these jobs will be obsolete soon.
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@MaxNordau Why are you always on my feed I don’t even follow you zionist piece of shit
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@s_m_marandi Ok propose a business deal and let’s work.
No point in continuing to be neanderthals.
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@LindseyGrahamSC We will not make our land a stage for a war we didn’t choose and have actively advocated against.
You are a disgrace and a traitor to the American people who overwhelmingly oppose this war.
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The American Embassy is being evacuated in Riyadh because of sustained attacks by Iran against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
It is my understanding the Kingdom refuses to use their capable military as a part of an effort to end the barbaric and terrorist Iranian regime who has terrorized the region and killed 7 Americans.
Question – why should America do a defense agreement with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is unwilling to join a fight of mutual interest?
Americans are dying and the U.S. is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime that threatens the region. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia seems to be issuing statements and doing things in the background that are marginally helpful, but unwilling to participate in military operations to end the reign of terror coming out of Iran. Hopefully Gulf Cooperation Council countries will get more involved as this fight is in their backyard. If you are not willing to use your military now, when are you willing to use it?
Hopefully this changes soon. If not, consequences will follow.
nytimes.com/2026/03/08/wor…
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@AlonLeeGreen You and your indoctrinated lunatic society keep voting for this with your clown ass “only democracy in the middle east”. Why can’t you just be a normal country and leave every one alone?
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I voted for Donald Trump because he felt like the lesser of two evils.
I didn’t want Joe Biden or Kamala Harris continuing what I believed was corruption and chaos.
Trump promised no new wars.
He promised to end wars.
He promised America First.
That’s why I supported him.
But now?
We’re watching conflicts escalate.
Billions sent overseas.
Military aid flowing to Israel and Ukraine.
Meanwhile Americans are struggling to buy groceries.
Veterans are homeless.
Families are drowning in debt.
Where is America First?
I didn’t vote for more foreign entanglements.
I voted for peace.
I voted for prosperity at home.
That’s why I’m disappointed.
That’s why I’m upset.
And that’s why I can’t support him anymore.
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