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@CullenHoback @nytimes After hearing him talk so much about all the reasons why he cant be Satoshi, im just curious what his reasons would be that other specific people are.

@CullenHoback @nytimes Did you ask him why he chose those three suspects when he redid the wikipedia page?

The @nytimes cites Money Electric as the inciting incident for their Adam Back investigation. But it's more than just a scene—Back is the main character. Much of the runtime is cat and mouse with him. The film asks from the start whether Blockstream (his company) is an extension of Satoshi as they try to make bitcoin the global standard. A bit of context: @JohnCarreyrou

@jscottiii @FoxNews Conservatives should he the angry ones. I dont think theres a more conservative stance in the world than "actually law enforcement should have to abide by the constitution" or "i dont think state employees should be able to execute you without due proccess"

@FoxNews Liberals will be fuming. Not because a cop lost his life at the hands of a criminal, but because the criminal was killed during crimes including morder.

"We intentionally ran him over...don't shoot at cops." A California sheriff says an armed suspect killed a deputy and barricaded himself when an eviction notice was served — but is now dead and "got what he deserved."

@oparaanthony6y1 @FoxNews Protect and serve doesn't mean you get to throw away the constitution and act as judge, jury and executioner. This needs to be investigated, people need to be fired, and someone needs to go to prison.

@FoxNews Protect and serve includes protecting your own. Hard to argue with the outcome after a deputy was killed.

@CullenHoback @JohnCarreyrou You think back disappearing from the internet at the perfect time, then Satoshi only reappearing to agree with something back was arguing in favor of all over the place, is pure coincidence? Could it be more than one person, and "we are all Satoshi" is a clever little in joke?

@JohnCarreyrou Not aiming to do a debunk thread (and I think Back got involved waaaay earlier than he claims). There’s a reason the last line of Money Electric is "If Todd and his friends at Blockstream were in fact behind Bitcoin.” But ya know, time will tell :)

Ha, well, I'm glad you found Money Electric valuable @JohnCarreyrou. Wish you'd reached out. I thought Back was Satoshi for much of production. But there's some tough contradictions. The code is a huge one. Back doesn't use Hungarian notation. Satoshi uses it consistently throughout Bitcoin v0.1 (an unconventional dialect no less) Hungarian notation is a variable naming convention that prefixes names with type codes: nFeeRate (integer), fValid (boolean), strError (string), pindexBest (pointer), hashGenesis (uint256).

@adam3us @InfoSpace_OG You never asked? You were so sure bitcoin was gonna work (despite earlier crypto attempt all failing) that you went all in with some guy who could've been a Federal agent for all you know? Seems unlikely.

@InfoSpace_OG i don't know who saotshi is, and afaict no one does. my emails with satoshi given to the defense team and released during the COPA trial defending developers vs CSW (who is not Satoshi, only person confirmed by a court to specifically not be!)

i'm not satoshi, but I was early in laser focus on the positive societal implications of cryptography, online privacy and electronic cash, hence my ~1992 onwards active interest in applied research on ecash, privacy tech on cypherpunks list which led to hashcash and other ideas.

@wil_da_beast630 Until you remember the implied "but dont let them come to my state once they are/lets send them to south america" subtext.

"As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free" is the hardest line in music.

@CombatCr Except that so much of the show is clearly an exact ripoff. They thought those elements couldn't be topped but didnt change them?

Presumably they’ve gone, ‘we’ve got no chance of replacing Alan Rickman so let’s go in a totally different direction’. Which is fine, unless you’re a racist looking to be outraged that they changed a character from a kids book.

@JacobAShell Traffic certainly didnt disappear the way it was supposed to

Post-Big Dig Boston is fine. But I can say, having grown up there when all the relevant local planning debates were playing out: the ambitions for the city were far, far grander than what 2020s Boston is actually like.

@ClayTravis You dont even have to leave your small town if you just have the better kids play the older kids

Well said. If you live in a decent sized town I refuse to believe it’s necessary to travel for games for kids under high school age. There are plenty of teams to play in your city.

@wil_da_beast630 m.youtube.com/watch?v=9rzPdV…

Nah. Symbol of Southern regional Pride, by now. But, I prefer the all-white final version they settled on.

@Bigqadi Steve King had one on his desk well before this, and im sure he wasnt the first congressman proudly displaying one.

Do you know how many people died to prevent that flag from ever being in that building.

@MattMoneymaker1 @ModernExplorer5 Bob gimlin is literally in the "dry run" footage

@slightofhand258 @ModernExplorer5 DeAtley is the one who would have spoken about it. There’s no reason to believe that Patterson or Gimlin even knew about it.

The trickery of this new documentary was getting some unsuspecting people to believe this newly discovered film reel was “made” prior to 1967, before the Bluff Creek footage was obtained, rather than what it really is — footage of a goofy looking replica of the Patterson creature made subsequent to 1967. Their evidence is markings showing the film stock was manufactured in 1966. Those are Kodachrome manufacturing marks, not marks from the development process. But when the director was able to persuade some trusting people like Jeff Meldrum and Patricia Patterson of his timeline before showing them the reel, he could get stunned and emotional reactions from them. Whereas if they knew the reel might have been shot after 1967 … they would have rightfully said it is irrelevant. They would have seen it as a janky attempt to replicate the Patterson creature after the fact. But no …

@MattMoneymaker1 @ModernExplorer5 And never mentioned to anyone in 60 years that they made a suit to try and match the actual creature?

@slightofhand258 @ModernExplorer5 It was one of “them” (DeAtley) making B-roll for his own doc.

@MattMoneymaker1 @ModernExplorer5 Whyd you change your argument? Just a few days ago you were claiming the new footage was them making b footage for the doc.

@ModernExplorer5 I don't know if Meldrum was paid for his appearance but I'm told that everyone who was filmed had to sign an NDA preventing them from speaking about the movie before it is released. Meldrum died several months before the release of the film. Munns is still alive though.

@wil_da_beast630 Nah man, its pretty simple. Whatever number you come uo with is gonna be completely arbitrary. 2 hours. 2 days. 2 years. Whatever. So you dont kill the babies in the womb. Easy peezy

I mean, this gets into actuarial analysis on the amoral side or consequentialist ethics on the moral side, right? I think an 85% consensus answer would be "More than two hours of agony, after endangering another human for nine months." No one likes the word 'deserve' in this^ context, but - to some significant extent - this hard-trad stuff strikes me as a right wing version of "Cute brown kid cry...guess we must open border." I --- just would allow D&Cs at two months as an alternative to risky nine month pregnancies, killing 1+% of women, that would invariably produce babies to die within a day. A leader unable to make this decision is garbage.

Lived for how long? This fetus was kept alive for seven months to suffer for two hours after birth? Purely from an optics standpoint, I encourage pro-lifers to focus on stories like this that have a HAPPY ending - I keep expecting the kid to live and grow up, not agonizingly wheeze to death in exactly the fire-air the doctor warned about.

@robkhenderson They tried to kick jackson off the 20 for Harriet tubman a few years ago

This is wild. How far is the US from presidents and founders (recall Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton were not presidents) being removed from our currency, or is this unthinkable here. thefp.com/p/tgif-smoking…

@mtracey @JDVance @TimJDillon politico.com/news/2026/03/1…

JD Vance on October 26, 2024: "Our interest, I think, very much is in not going to war with Iran. It would be huge distraction of resources, it would be massively expensive to our country" Most brazenly deceptive campaign propaganda in modern US history @JDVance @TimJDillon

@queerBengali Its the guys on trt saying stuff about it thats most insane

The way Ozempic has triggered naturally skinny people is v funny