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The Satoshiness of Tominaga Nakamoto
Tom was basically a workaholic since he was a teenager. He grew up on his grand-daddies' knee, learning about computer code and human intelligence. His Grandfather had trained at the Marconi school of Wireless and their house had been one of the first to have Television in it.
By Richard Boase5 years ago in The Chain
The Mystery Of Bitcoin
In The End, Bitcoin Wins In The End, Bitcoin Wins By Roberto Alago Cryptocurrency are reproducing like rats. There seems to be a new one popping up, like a gopher, almost every week. With so many options, How can Bitcoin beat the competition?
By Roberto Alago5 years ago in The Chain
A Bit of Luck
Feb 14, 2021 Ever since I hurled that laptop through my boss's office window, I spend the first half of my day just prepping for the following half: Court-mandated therapy, medication, exercise, and meditation takes up a lot of time. I never knew someone could be sentenced to meditate.
By Garret Kane5 years ago in The Chain
SILENT COINS
It was an early afternoon, no different than the last one for Satoshi. Satoshi loved to walk, it was his favourite pastime along with drinking coffee and spending money on frivolous things. That afternoon he walked past a phone box which began to ring. “Strange,” he thought, as he looked around with no passer-by insight. Curiously he walked inside and lifted the phone to his ear. Silence. Staring blankly into the outside world he began to feel a chill down his spine. Silence. He swiftly left the box, began walking down the road compelled to look back at the box but with no haste to return to it, or to indulge in thoughts about it. Later that evening tucked inside the womb of his humble, but, lavishly adorned apartment, he couldn’t help but think about what transpired that early afternoon; “Why the call to no one?” he said to himself. Perplexed, he sat there, wondering why was he chosen to pick up the call, and why the silence. He couldn’t help but think this meant something, something far deeper than he could comprehend. “Stupid,” he said to himself, “What nonsense,” he uttered under his breath. Feeling his imagination running wild he decided the day had run its course and fell joyfully into his bed.
By James Green5 years ago in The Chain
Intercept
DECLASSIFIED AS OF 12 FEBRUARY 2021 The following was translated from Japanese. Some content may be incorrect due to language barriers. Additionally, the recording was received scrambled and the conversation was determined to have been intentionally muffled for secrecy. Our lingual experts, teamed with AI, did their best to fill in gaps.
By Claudia Coniglio5 years ago in The Chain
The Mystery of Bitcoin
Money or currency started out as a way to exchange tangible items between people. A goat for a equal amount of rice. A metal coin for an equivalent value of goods or services. It was a physically based platform. And it worked for hundreds of years. But the world of exchange and currency was ever changing and continues to evolve rapidly. We have been moving into a digitally based platforms for decades. Our fiat money is backed by no tangible or valuable assets, just numbers on a computer screen. We swipe plastic cards through machines at checkout instead of handing over physical money. We have a financial system that is backed by trust and faith in a government and corporate infrastructure that is eroding beneath the weight of empty promises, self-serving agendas, increasingly complex bureaucracy, and mismanagement of resources. At this point, digital currency seems the most logical next step in an ever intensifying shift from form to formless, from being governed to self-governance. But is it really a good thing for humankind or the next well-constructed system of control?
By Suyana Cole5 years ago in The Chain
Satoshi's Gift
“So tell me how this whole thing works again?” My roommate paced around our room like a mother with a pre-teen that missed curfew for the first time. Every few minutes he would lean in over my desk with three fingers over his bottom lip, possibly holding it in place to prevent it from trembling right off his face from anticipation. I’d spent all my money on a currency that he’s never heard of and a device to make more of it. All of my money including my half of the rent that was due in three days was riding on this.
By Nuwan Panditaratne5 years ago in The Chain
Quantum Computing & The Bitcoin Mystery
He sat there like a statue of carved flesh. I saw him blink occasionally, seriously once a minute or so, as he stared a hole through the two-way mirror. He'd been as docile as a doe since we came into his crappy apartment to slap cuffs on him, so now we let him sit silently at the cold bare metal table in interrogation chamber #4 with his hands folded demurely in front of him like he was front-row in an honors class. Those hands were the first thing that caught my attention about him. Long, pale, and thin. A pianist's hands. Or perhaps he spent too much time in front of a computer monitor.
By Emmanuel Motelin5 years ago in The Chain
The people's crypto
Some people speculated they were lizard people, shapeshifters or aliens, the unseen evil were humans, but with something missing a certain cold emptiness that you could see in their unfeeling eyes, I avoided their gaze out of some irrational fear that it would curdle my blood or cause my heart to explode. What was missing from these people that made them hardly human? a heart? Perhaps that is where the rumours of lizards began, with nothing to pump blood around their body they must be cold blooded beings, vampires devoid of actual life. What I thought was missing was a conscious a care for their fellow human, stuck in the swings of manipulation pulling the unseen strings of society like children with the world as their toy, no other motivation other than curiosity at what would happen if they pulled a certain thread, a war, a disease, a financial crisis, what couldn’t they manipulate, the weather? Who knows? Not me. Employed on a need-to-know basis, you might ask yourself how I ended up in this room with the superpowers of the world, the unseen elite, pale old men with money in place of their conscience and unquenchable hunger for power over the world and, sociopathic passions for manipulation of society. And that is why I was there, a computer programmer, with basic needs, no hunger for money and a passion for solving the problems society faced. I don’t belong here, I thought I was smart, not smart enough, I was here because I was useful, for my powers of manipulating the world with technology only I never saw it as manipulation, the room had no windows a round table I sat chained to the chair with every horrible scenario filling my head with terror, every second hope was shrivelling away I knew, with almost unfaltering certainty that I wouldn’t leave this room alive, the logical part of my brain knew but something, instinct maybe kept the flame of hope glimmering, how I got here I didn’t know 30 days ago I woke up slowly I hadn’t drunk much more than normal, but a my body was heavy and mind foggy like id drank a bar dry. Oh god the room span like I was inside a ball thrown around in a wild ocean.
By Richard Logan5 years ago in The Chain
The Mystery of Bitcoin
Why in this high-tech, Ai new world, is everyone is so blinkered and fearful of the evolution of our monetary system? It had to happen. There had to be a way for the people to take back control of their own finances, without being tied to the decisions and mistakes of the rich, who have no idea what happens as a butterfly effect by the time it filters down to the majority. And what compensation do we have? None, it's just 'tough luck' if the calculations don't quite add up... We (the non-millionaires) almost have to beg the banks to help us, and in return, we might get a few pounds or dollars interest every now and then. Gee, thanks guys!!
By Emma Baker5 years ago in The Chain
The history of Bitcoin
This story begins one afternoon back in 2001. Juggling between raising an infant child, attending college, and working most weekends I found myself with a day off to fall clean my home. As I went to clean out the drawers in my computer desk I noticed a CD I got in the mail for an online Casino. They were offering $1,000 free to try their games and awarded the proceeds after you spent the initial $1,000. So, I decided why not I had nothing to lose.
By Angela Pauline5 years ago in The Chain
What is the Future of Bitcoin in India?
With the passage of the Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021 on January 29, 2021 in the lower house of the parliament, i.e., Lok Sabha, investors in India might be quite uncertain about their move. What is the destiny of Bitcoin in India? PCEX Member, a leading cryptocurrency exchange in India, explains it and tries to answer many unanswered questions.
By vipin sahu5 years ago in The Chain
