Oddbean new post about | logout
 Top post in /r/bitcoin right now is numerology for nerds. 🙄

Moronic.
https://image.nostr.build/345775a537851b22aa22005634e28015d5a44c53c87e6ceadaad323c30ee71ba.jpg 
 This is 10,000 IQ shit right here 
 What happened to the second N 
 I read “tjrltdney” what do I win? 
 weebs 
 Can any japanese person verify this? 
 Mixing katakana and hiragana like this is not correct Japanese. To be consistent it should be: サトシナカモト.

But even then, names would normally be in kanji rather than "spelled out" like this. For example the family name Nakamoto is commonly spelled as 中本 
 creative transliteration 🤷‍♂️ proves nothing but it is fun. language is weird 
 🧐

nostr:nevent1qqs00kg893kmyxt50w0rax5lfzl880cx9g4247550vmazlwtwvd5v7cpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsyg8h9rv7decysdvwwzfs7h9xfvyhwuxe38xds6z5lescak5u3gupqcpsgqqqqqqsaz9t3n 
 reddit is v low on alpha these days, r/bitcoin especially 
 In kanji it means "Central Intelligence" 

SELL!!! 😄 
 I'd be up all night trying to eek Len Sassaman out of that methodology. 

But I've long wondered if Len passed the credentials for Satoshi ID to Hal Finney shortly before Len died... and Hal used it once for that enigmatic/empathetic "I am not Dorian Nakamoto" post in 2014.

Hmmm. 
 ひらがな・カタカナ混ざってて草だが妙に説得力ある
nostr:nevent1qqs00kg893kmyxt50w0rax5lfzl880cx9g4247550vmazlwtwvd5v7cpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzpaegm8nwwpyrtrnsjv84efjtp9mhpkvfenvxs487vx8d48y28qgxqvzqqqqqqy24tyga 
 It actually makes sense.
Satoshi Nakamoto was most probably not a Japanese person, so the nickname likely found its source in some English / Latin letter word.
So the actual path is from "Hal Finney" to the hiragana/katakana lookalike and back to the romaji (English character) equivalent.
It is 100% what a geek and cypherpunk of the 80's would do.
And Hal Finney always was one of the most credible candidates to be Satoshi Nakamoto.