In 1942, my father was invited by Geoffrey Pyke to participate in the Habakkuk project. For personal reasons, he ended up not participating in the construction of the famous ice and sawdust aircraft carrier, but it was thanks to this that he met and befriended a Japanese-American cryptologist who was beginning to make a name for himself within American military circles. At the time, he was known only as “Little Grasshopper.” Later, he would adopt the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.

In 2005, when my father passed away, Nakamoto contacted me to pay his respects, and that’s how he discovered my interest in cryptography and distributed processing. At the time, he told me he was working on a personal project, but since his knowledge of distributed processing and P2P networks was limited, he needed help from someone with more experience. I suggested some contacts I had, but he insisted: “I need someone of extreme trust, someone who is practically family.”

And that’s the story of my Bitcoin journey!