Philip Mascherino

cubicle worker to world traveler to investment advisor @megaannum

[Tom Brady @TomBrady]

Yeah so that might top 28-3 🤯

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

@joeroganhq TC

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

@sciencegirl GREED

[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.

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

@pudgypenguins Would like to what Pengu Morning will do.

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

Starting to think Taylor Swift really is an Eagles fan… she’s out here running the ultimate distraction play on Kelce & the Chiefs so the Birds can fly. 🦅💚 #GoBirds #TaylorSwift

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

What's more painful than watching people in front of you exit the plane?

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

If you thought sleazy salesmen were good, just wait till AI starts selling you things left and right and you don't even realize it before it's too late!

[Rissa @clazzell]

@DOGE @IRS has a backlog of about 1.4 million ERC claims that have been submitted but have not been paid. When will small business owners get their COVID RELIEF FUNDS? @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @BoLoudon

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨 ROGAN: “Nancy Pelosi has never made more than $175,000 a year. She’s worth 100 something million dollars now. It’s corruption. It only happens through corruption. It’s transparent, legal corruption. It’s very strange.”

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

People are creating shock value (mostly sexual) for themselves all over the world in an attempt to succeed in life. This and AI is what's going to change the world completely.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I can’t wait. There is a lot of waste and needless regulation in government that needs to go.

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

Our country has messed up our water system, food system and healthcare system. Our people are both physically and mentally unhealthy and getting worse. Yet, the stock market is at an all-time high. Would you rather a strong economy or a healthy mind and body?#whealthy

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

The company with the most toys wins. One's effort to open up a smaill business will prove to be futile as they can't compete with the convenience offerings of the big boys. Genrally speaking. Be unique and/or provide value to give yourself a chance.

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

When slavery rears its ugly head again in about ten years but not with race but with wealth. Don't be left out in the cold hungry. https://t.co/vKzyWSMY2a

American cardholders paid a record $130 billion in interest and fees in 2022, according to a new CFPB report.

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

As long as more and more people make 'one thousand million' a year ,aka "a billion", our people can't compete or otherwise survive. Stay smart with your money. Buy low, Sell high. #smartinvesting #Survivor #survivalofthefittest, #beepbeepbeep #buylowsellhigh

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

Two consecitive negative years for the stock market? Real Estate collapse in August? 🤔

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The conflicts of interest that are out there by people not disclosing their affiliation with the company or products they talk about is concerning.

[Philip Mascherino @philmasch]

Wonder what it would be like get the World Cup referees to run our country. #WorldCup2022