Don Michael

[jack @jack]

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[Seán Murray @financeguy74]

THE NEWEST WHY JACK DORSEY IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO

C++ for Bitcoin source code
Now confirmed Jack coded in C++ as far back as mid-90s

C in the White Paper
Now confirmed Jack coded in C as far back as mid-90s.

Satoshi pseudonym
"Satoshi" was the first tweet Jack's best friend (Crystal Taylor) made on the beta version of Twitter in 2006 in reference to DJ Satoshi Tomiie. Jack revealed this on Tumblr in March 2011.

Bitcoin Miner
Jack's college mascot at University of Missouri-Rolla was the Miners.

Adam Back, the first person that Satoshi emailed
Jack wore an Adam Back code t-shirt in his college yearbook photo and linked to Back's website in the 90s from his own with the note "Very good."

Hal Finney, the first person to really help Satoshi
Jack linked to Hal's website in the 90s from his own with the note "essays, explanations, and challenges".

Ecash (What Satoshi originally called Bitcoin)
Jack linked to David Chaum's Digicash (ecash) website and to a page that contained Cypherpunks' C library-based ecash-lucre in the 90s. Jack noted this page as being "The best."

Cryptography
Jack is confirmed to have been obsessed with cryptography, dedicating his personal website to it in the 90s

Cypherpunks
Jack confirmed to be one of ~1,300 subscribed cypherpunks in the world in 1996, and made the list a central focus of his website while promoting its mission. Another one of his emails is confirmed to have been on the list in 2000.

Bitcoin White Paper
The White Paper cited a 1997 ACM Research paper and Jack was a confirmed member of ACM in 1997.

Research Paper Production
Jack ran a team of programmers in the 90s at Mira Digital Publishing that wrote academic research paper production and distribution software. Such papers were formatted like the Bitcoin White Paper.

St. Louis
In 2014, a hacker tried to extort Satoshi after breaking into his email by publishing a doctored Invoice with a St. Louis address. Jack is from St. Louis.

Windows (what Satoshi first coded Bitcoin for)
Jack is confirmed to have coded for Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux, and Blackberry all prior to Bitcoin's release.

Numerology
11/19 - Satoshi joined the Bitcoin forum on 11/19 (Jack's birthday)
1/11 - Satoshi's first transaction to Hal Finney was 1/11 (Jack's mom's birthday)

California
Satoshi's IP is widely believed to have leaked on 1/10/09, placing him in California. Jack was in California at the time.

Sailor's Adage
The bitcoin source code contained the phrase "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three." Jack was obsessed with sailing.

"Denials"
2020 - Jack tells Lex Fridman that if he was Satoshi he wouldn't tell him.
2023 - Jack tells a conference interviewer in an odd denial 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."

British Spellings
Satoshi occasionally used British spellings, but not all the time. Jack in 2009 shared that he sometimes changes the language settings in his phone. So UK English settings would have therefore auto-corrected his American English to British.

Craig Wright
The COPA lawsuit that disproved Wright as Satoshi was financed primarily by Jack.

Jak
Wright claimed to own thousands of Bitcoin addresses in a lawsuit but this was thrown into doubt in 2020 when 145 of them signed a message claiming Wright was a fraud. The oldest address, from May 2009, was 1JaKriNjceGmggKYQkURmatQv6LXyvUiAB. "Jak" was how Jack spelled his name for about 7 years and was also his online pseudonym. Satoshi had previously written about brute forcing the first few characters of a Bitcoin address to spell out one's name.

Novels
Jack's friend Alyssa Milano wrote 2 books (Hacktivist 1 and 2) about Jack, that claimed that he had been living a double life under a famous hacking pseudonym. The first was written in 2013. Jack is godfather to her child.

First
Jack's company Square was the first publicly traded company to talk to the SEC about Bitcoin.
Jack's company Square was the first publicly traded company to sell Bitcoin.

Web-based Payments
Jack's company Dnet first contemplated web-based payments without a bank account starting in 1998. Jack's company Square revolutionized retail POS payments (founded in 2009).

Self-control
Jack is already a twice self-made and publicly famous billionaire. Satoshi's "wealth" of Bitcoins would hardly be enticing, especially given his philanthropic attitude and behavior.

Reasons to hide in the beginning
In July 2008, E-Gold Ltd. (E-Gold), an Internet-based digital currency business, and its three principal directors and owners, pleaded guilty to criminal charges relating to money laundering and the operation of an illegal money transmitting business.

Reasons to keep hiding in 2010-2011
Twitter was in the hot seat with the US government over WikiLeaks' usage of twitter to distribute information.
Twitter's board was planning to bring Jack back into a day-to-day role.
People were using Bitcoin to fund WikiLeaks.

Visa was planning to invest in Jack's company Square.
Visa had banned payments to WikiLeaks.
Visa announced its investment in Jack's company a couple days after Satoshi announced his goodbye.

Wei Dai, Nick Szabo
Adam Back testified in the COPA lawsuit that he did not think Satoshi was familiar with Wei Dai's "b-money" because he had to tell him about it. Meanwhile, the cypherpunks had to tell Satoshi about Nick Szabo's "Bit Gold." Jack's cypherpunk fan page mentions several cypherpunks including Adam Back and Hal Finney, as mentioned before, but did not mention Wei Dai or Nick Szabo, as if he perhaps he wasn't aware of them either, just like Satoshi.

Open Source Track Record
Jack's commitment to open-source software is well established and can be traced going back to the mid-90s. From Dnet to apps he wrote, to statements he made, to forums he posted on.

Time Period
early Aug '08 - Jack finds out he's going to be fired from Twitter
8/18/08 - Bitcoin .org is registered
8/20/08 - "Satoshi" emails Adam Back
9/8/08 - Jack tweets he has a plan in his back pocket
10/5/08 - Satoshi registers account on SourceForge
10/15/08 - Jack fired from twitter
10/30/08 - Jack takes his blog (gu .st) that's been running for 7 years offline
10/31/08 - Bitcoin White Paper released

2/11/09 - Satoshi announces Bitcoin on P2P Foundation.
2/11/09 - Jack launches payments company named Squirrel, later Square.

12/5/10 - Satoshi tells people not to donate Bitcoins to WikiLeaks.
12/7/10 - Visa bans payments to WikiLeaks.
12/13/10 - Satoshi stops logging into the Bitcoin forum.
12/14/10 - Twitter receives secret court ordered demand over WikiLeaks.

3/28/11 - Jack returns to Twitter as Executive Chairman while remaining CEO of Square.
4/23/11 - Satoshi sends goodbye email ("I've moved on to other things").
4/27/11 - Visa invests in Jack's company Square.
5/23/11 - Twitter's tech lead suggests that Jack's company Square might integrate with Bitcoin.

Attempts to disprove
The only attempt to disprove the Jack is Satoshi theory was debunked by the likelihood that Satoshi could have and likely did post to the internet from a cell phone, thereby eliminating perceived time conflicts between Jack and Satoshi.

Denials from others
Nick Szabo, Adam Back, Hal Finney, Peter Todd, Wei Dai, etc. all deny being Satoshi.

Who Finances Bitcoin Development Today?
In the Fall of 2024, 1A1z released its report that revealed that Jack Dorsey was the primary financier of Bitcoin's development today.

SEC Disclosure
Jack filed a shareholder letter with the SEC in early 2024 stating that Square (now Block) is following "Satoshi Nakamoto's" design when it comes to cryptocurrency. The implication is that the company is simply following the CEO's design.

Today
Satoshi shirt, JackjackBITS username on github, release of BITchat, Block/Square is bitcoin-integrated payments company with $1B of Bitcoin on balance sheet

Jack Dorsey is Satoshi Nakamoto.

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[Seán Murray @financeguy74]

Satoshi registers for bitcoin forum - Nov 19 - Jack Dorsey's birthday

Satoshi's first bitcoin transaction - Jan 11 - Jack Dorsey's mother's birthday

Satoshi's last mined block - May 3, Jack Dorsey's father's birthday

While the odds of these coincidences occurring naturally are extraordinarily low, what's actually notable about them is that they align with Jack's personality.

Jack makes a huge deal about his parents. He cites them frequently in his founding story, he had them present at Square's IPO, he told reporters that he calls his mother every day and he weirdly shouted out his mother in his resignation letter to twitter. He wanted everyone to know when their birthdays were and he publicized it on twitter every year. Square's IPO was also timed to coincide with his birthday just as this year's Investor Day is also on it. Jack's parents, particularly his father, are major numerologists, with his father obsessed with the numbers 53 because he was born on May 3, 1953 (5/3/53). His X name is tim535353. May 3, 2010 is believed to be when Satoshi mined his last block.

Square also shares its founding date with Japan's National Foundation Day (February 11) which is the same date (February 11, 2009) that Satoshi publicly announced Bitcoin outside the cryptography community and on to public peer-to-peer lists.

And all of this is notable not just because Jack likes bitcoin (and imagine if!) but because Jack was also one of the first cypherpunks in the 1990s. His now confirmed passion was cryptography, ecash, programming (including C++), and publicly following Adam Back and Hal Finney. We know this from his old website which has now been recovered and nobody knew about. He wore an Adam Back code t-shirt in his college yearbook photo. He was a member of ACM in 1997 and Satoshi cited a 1997 ACM paper.

And not just this but because Jack is the primary financier of Bitcoin's development today, was the financier of the lawsuit that undid CSW's claim to being Satoshi. Jack showed up when CSW's lawyers argued that if CSW was not Satoshi then the real Satoshi would be expected to appear to challenge it. Jack appeared.

And.... not just this but because Jack revealed his connection to the name Satoshi in 2011 on his blog just as Satoshi was exiting for good.

And not just this.... but much much more.

A common critique of Jack that I've seen among early bitcoiners appears to be that he is a UI (useful idiot) in that he is just some rich dude who got lucky with twitter and has little understanding of bitcoin but that people are happy to take his money and receive his support for as long as he is interested in the subject. It seems that few of these people know much about his background even if they know him in person. What a shame.

Perhaps it's hard to imagine that Bitcoin and the founding story is not just computer science or math but also poetry and art. There are two books published by Jack's best friend (from 10 years ago) that claim he was living a double life under a famous hacking pseudonym. There's the book that Jack's own company published about the Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto in which it drew Satoshi in Jack's likeness. That Satoshi has been right there in front of us the whole time, telling us, showing us, wearing his name on his shirt, is a level of plain-sight that we don't want to admit we didn't see. It would be too obvious. The birthdays, the name, the style, all fit his modus operandi.

“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” – Jack Dorsey, October 27, 2023

The quote above from this well publicized video on youtube at a conference is now being alleged as AI, lol.

Bitcoin is poetry, it's art, it's everything he ever loved. Jack Dorsey is Satoshi.

[Seán Murray @financeguy74]

1 in 48 million odds without any other context.

Now consider that this particular individual is a cypherpunk, obsessed with Bitcoin, has a special relationship with his parents, is the primary financier of Bitcoin's development, and says his company is following Satoshi.

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So, let’s see from 2013. So, my accounts—like, this is after tax and after commissions and after living expenses—so my accounts were actually 9K in May 2013. That was the turning point for my trading. May of Fannie Mae happened in 20—I was down like 50% on the year, and that was the turning point.

So, May 2013, I had 9100 in my training accounts. And let’s see when I did hit one million here. January 2018, I hit 1.4 million.

So, somewhere in December 2017, my account reached 1 million. So, about three and a half years to get from 9K to 1 million.”

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