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A SPLIT SECOND CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING

“The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant, the truth was revealed.” by Tesla

By Niloofar TehranianPublished 5 years ago 6 min read

The story is about the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin. I'll start with a quick overview of how Bitcoin works, before diving into the mystery of its inventor. Bitcoin is a new digital currency that can be transmitted across the Internet. You can buy bitcoins with dollars or other traditional money from sites such as or MtGox, send bitcoins to other people, buy with them at some places, and exchange bitcoins back into dollars.

To simplify slightly, bitcoins consist of entries in a distributed database that keeps track of the ownership of bitcoins. Unlike a bank, bitcoins are not tied to users or accounts. Instead, bitcoins are owned by a Bitcoin , for example, 1KKKK6N21XKo48zWKuQKXdvSsCf95ibHFa.

Bitcoin uses digital signatures to that the owner of bitcoins can spend them. The owner of a Bitcoin has the private key associated with the . To spend bitcoins, they sign the transaction with this private key, which proves they are the owner. (It's somewhat like signing a physical check to make it valid.) A public key is associated with each Bitcoin , and anyone can use it to verify the digital signature.

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Blocks and transactions are identified by a 256-bit cryptography hash of their contents. This hash value is used in places in the Bitcoin protocol. Besides, finding a special hash is a difficult task in mining a block.

what is hashing? In simple terms, hashing means taking an input string of any length and giving out an output of a fixed length. In the context of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, the transactions are as input and run through a hashing algorithm (Bitcoin uses SHA-256) which gives an output of a fixed length.

A transaction is a basic operation in the Bitcoin system. You might expect that a transaction moves some bitcoins from one to another , but it's more complicated than that. A Bitcoin transaction moves bitcoins between one or more inputs and outputs. Each input is a transaction and supplying bitcoins. Each output is an receiving bitcoin, along with the amount of bitcoins going to that . Yeah! You're right. Mind-blowing, isn't it?...

you might think that miners are solving mathematical problems, that's not actually true what they actually are doing is trying to be the first miner to come up with a 64-digit hexadecimal number (a hash) that is less than or equal to the target hash.

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Now that we kinda get the idea of how bitcoin works let's dive into the mystery of its inventor. What we do know so far, from Wikipedia:

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name . 's identity remains unknown. Blockchain analysts estimate that had mined about one million bitcoins before disappearing in 2010.

Paying attention to the mining of bitcoin reminds me of a famous saying from a genius mind of all time Nikola Tesla " If you knew the magnificence of 3 6 and 9, you would have a key to the universe."

Nikola Tesla was obsessed with numbers, but he loved 3, 6, and 9. He wanted the world to know the significance of the number 3 6 9, he claimed it as an invention that these were important numbers, but the question is, why?

There must have been at least some reason that Tesla was obsessed with equations and numbers. Don't you think so? Coming from someone who knows what obsession is! ...

For example, mysterious Tesla used to walk around a block 3 times before entering a building. Chose specifically those hotels’ rooms, which had their room number divisible by 3. He would wash his dishes with 18 napkins. Some said he had OCD and some believed he was superstitious, but I do believe that he was solving hashes but hashes in time...

I believe that Tesla was a time traveler. I theorize also that he has side effects that were caused by that jump in space-time; his “white flashes” before a sudden thought about inventions came to his brain. He had a photographic memory. Possessing the ability to read books and periodicals while simultaneously committing them to memory served Tesla well; he used all the information he acquired as an internal library, available at his beck and call. As a result, Tesla rarely made drawings of his inventions but worked from a picture or a memory in his head. Because he has an extreme case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, it caused him to have certain acts in the same specific way. Or maybe those were the time he was in his zone traveling in time. Likewise, the process of hashing, finding the key to the universe.

“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain,” Tesla said, in a 1926 interview with Colliers reprinted wired. Tesla predicted that wireless devices would eventually be simplified, with many transmitters and receivers operating without interference. He described live streaming and FaceTime, saying that in the future people would remotely witness events, such as a World Series game as if we were present. Always ahead of his time, Tesla described self-driving cars, drones, and autonomous robots. He imagined a vehicle that could operate itself and make its own decisions. Tesla believed that there would be remote-controlled machines in the future, in other words, drones. Tesla described our modern smartphones with vivid details. “A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket,” Tesla said.

His famous saying “One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature, and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.”

Some people describe Tesla as someone that has never achieved long-term financial success. Yet, I believe that he knew that he’s going to change the term money and transactions one day. Let him care less about the obvious and pay more attention to the unknown. As he always said innovation takes time. “The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of a planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation of those who are to come and point the way.”

Around the height of World War II, Tesla had claimed to have invented a powerful particle-beam weapon, known as the “Death Ray,” that could have proved invaluable in the ongoing conflict.

But, Tesla’s technology falling into the hands of America’s enemies.

Nikola Tesla died in January 1943 in his hotel room in New York City. Representatives of the U.S. government’s Office of Alien Property seized all the documents relating to the 86-year of his inventor’s work.

What happened to Tesla’s files from there, as well as what was in those files, remains shrouded in mystery and ripe for conspiracy theories. After years of fielding questions about possible cover-ups, the FBI declassified some 250 pages of Tesla-related documents under the Freedom of Information Act in 2016.

On the other hand, the bitcoin community was shocked when a digital wallet containing close to $1 billion in bitcoin, thought to be proceeds from the now-shuttered dark web drug marketplace Silk Road, was emptied by an unknown individual.

Silk Road was “the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace” on the internet, said the Department of Justice, operating between 2011 and 2013 before shutting down by the FBI. The US government estimates that the website generated around 600,000 bitcoins in commissions during this period. Around 175,000 of these were seized when Ulbricht was arrested and the website shut down in October 2013.

Back in 2008, our mysterious bitcoin's inventor published The Bitcoin white paper. A white paper is created by the founders and/or developers of a crypt to help sell the . But instead of pushing emotional buttons, they give facts, diagrams, statistics, and quotes.

Two years later, the mysterious figure is as " " disappears from the web. Doing a quick web search, you’ll find out that Satoshi is usually a name given for baby boys which means “clear thinking, quick-witted, wise,” while Nakamoto is a Japanese means 'central origin' or '(one who lives) in the middle' as people.

On April 23, 2011, sent Bitcoin Core developer Mike Hearn a brief email. "I've moved on to other ," he said, referring to the Bitcoin project. The future of Bitcoin, he wrote, was "in good hands."

White flashes or white papers

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.

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