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[–]edlund10 67 points68 points  (55 children)

On April 5th 1933 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.

[–]gwern[S] 13 points14 points  (18 children)

That's an interesting point. I skimmed right over that in WP since it's of no importance to me, but I guess it would be important to extreme libertarians; is Satoshi really that extreme to care about the gold standard? (The genesis block criticized bailouts, but an awful lot of people who weren't extreme libertarians criticized the bailouts too.)

Well, best alternate explanation so far definitely.

[–]jasondreyzehner 25 points26 points  (10 children)

One need not self-identify as libertarian to find Executive Order 6102 extremely concerning.

Progressives familiar with the intellectual theory behind their movement might be uncomfortable with the legal precedent set in creating an imprisonable offence ("hoarding" a yellow metal) without a democratic process.

Conservatives familiar with the intellectual theory behind their movement may be concerned by the usurpation of a political power not delegated to the Federal government in the US Constitution. Not even the Congress is granted the power to punish for the hoarding of gold; their power for punishment concerning currencies is for fraud (counterfeiting):

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current coin of the United States;

Those who adhear to the non-aggression principle (Libertarians) will find this executive order to initiate violence against non-violent parties (without a proper claim to aggressed-property).

And moderates, independents, or otherwise will almost certainly find it disturbingly Orwellian that the leader of an allegedly democratic government can declare a previously legal (and incredibly common) act to be imprisonable for 5 to 10 years, for allegedly technocratic reasons (to "stimulate" recovery), without an economic proof or study.

This was a landmark event in the history of the development of money, and it influenced a great number of thinkers to consider forms of money not under the control (or potential control) of political entities. Among these thinkers were the Cypherpunks, including Wei Dai (b-money), the very first reference in Satoshi's original whitepaper.

As /u/edlund10 mentions below, 1975 is the year this order was reversed and gold ownership was re-legalized for average US residents.

Satoshi's message in the genesis block is also relevant:

The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

It is extremely unlikely that Satoshi chose April 5, 1975 by coincidence.

[–]sjalq 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Dude, please introduce me to these concerned progressives and liberals. The only ones I know say "Print, print, print", holding up concepts like "maximum freedom for all" to justify taking away individual liberty.

[–]jasondreyzehner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

familiar with the intellectual theory behind their movement

The intellectual theory may not be sound, but at least it supports opposition to a decree of this nature.

Finding intellectually honest individuals who deliberately place themselves in one of these camps is a different matter entirely...

[–]gwern[S] 0 points1 point  (7 children)

One need not self-identify as libertarian to find Executive Order 6102 extremely concerning.

Yet in practice, I never see anyone bringing it up except libertarians; even if progressives/liberals mention it once in a while, it is still overwhelmingly a libertarian concern. Everyone else has almost completely forgotten about it, except when it comes up occasionally in historical economics discussions of the Depression (I wouldn't be surprised to see a Krugman reference, for example).

Among these thinkers were the Cypherpunks, including Wei Dai (b-money), the very first reference in Satoshi's original whitepaper.

All generally tending towards libertarian beliefs, even if they don't explicitly self-identify as such.

[–]jasondreyzehner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree. Unfortunately, it seems a number of ideologies are not so tightly bound to historical, praxeological, or epistemological knowledge.

[–]Dave_Aiello 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Dude, Szabo referenced this executive order on his blog. Get in touch with me ASAP.

[–]gwern[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, I know. Search 'roosevelt' and it pops up in a comment to a blogpost.

As far as contact goes: http://gwern.net/Links#contact

[–]jron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I assume this is the post you're referring to? http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/negative-rights-debate-continues.html

"Roosevelt's executive order was a culmination of the central bank gold hording war that greatly contributed to the Depression in the first place. Ironically, the order accused its victims of "hording." The Federal Reserve "won" the hording war and most other central banks went off gold altogether."

[–]kattbilder -3 points-2 points  (2 children)

American libertarianism is a very US-centric concept.

[–]sjalq 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Anarcho-capitalism is not an "US-centric" concept.

[–]kattbilder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True in the sense that it has an unambiguous meaning.

[–]lacksfish 2 points3 points  (6 children)

Do you think it is his birthday, or did he put this date there on purpose?

Well played, Satoshi, well played.

EDIT:

On another note, why would a President forbid his citizen to hoard gold? Also, enforcing such a law would not be possible with Bitcoin.

[–]gwern[S] 6 points7 points  (4 children)

Given edlund's explanation for 1975 gels perfectly, I'm now convinced this was a deliberate Easter egg.

[–]ESRogs 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Hmm, doesn't it seem more likely that if it were a deliberate Easter egg he would either put April 5, 1933, or whichever day in 1975 the new law went into effect?

[–]gwern[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I think it makes sense given the constraints. If he put in 1933, then the age displays really weirdly (he's 76?) and it's not a very good easter egg for being so blatantly fake; so he can only put in the day of the banning if at all. And if he goes with the day in 1975 gold was legalized, then he loses any direct reference to the banning since now he's referring only to one date rather than two. By combining the two dates, he gets a plausible age (so plausible that no-one noticed the easter egg for 5 full years despite intense international interest in him) and he gets in both allusions to the greed of government and capriciousness of its rules (the government giveth and taketh).

It's almost showoffy clever, especially if he came up with it on the spur of the moment.

[–]ESRogs 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I agree that it's awesome if true. Still not convinced that it's legit though. Maybe SN will see our discussion and chime in though? The odds must be pretty good that he at least knows who you are, right? ;)

[–]gwern[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, we'll see if it was right if Satoshi ever goes public. If he's the wrong age, then we know it was the Easter egg.

The odds must be pretty good that he at least knows who you are, right? ;)

Come to think of it, the odds are pretty good. Nick Szabo knows me from my comments on his blog & his criticism of my Worse is Better essay; Wei Dai & Finney know me from LessWrong; McCaleb knows me because I emailed him asking about MtGox; Andresen knows me because my crazy stalker got him involved in that blackmail thing; and the rest on my list don't know me. So half the list knows me, and if you figure at least 50% chance that the real Satoshi is one of the people on the list (as I would), then that suggests a 25% chance SN knows me.

I really doubt he's paying any attention to anything I'm doing, though. I'm just not that important or interesting. :)

[–]sjalq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because he followed it by debasing the money supply almost 2 to 1. A free floating gold price would have allowed the American people to side step his theft.

[–]Shuffle4 9 points10 points  (23 children)

https://blockchain.info/address/1933phfhK3ZgFQNLGSDXvqCn32k2buXY8a This bitcoin wallet is assumed to be satoshi's by some perhaps if it is then that year at least was in his mind when it was created if it so happened to be a vanity wallet and not just random coincidence. This wallet untill recently had only deposits

[–]lifeboatz 3 points4 points  (16 children)

This bitcoin wallet is assumed to be satoshi's by some

Not by anyone in the know.

Satoshi's fortune is spread among a bunch (~20,000) of 50 BTC coinbase transactions (not to be confused with Coinbase).

[–]ztsmart 0 points1 point  (15 children)

Satoshi uses Coinbase?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (14 children)

The coinbase is the content of the 'input' of a generation transaction. While regular transactions use the 'inputs' section to refer to their parent transaction outputs, a generation transaction has no parent, and creates new coins from nothing.

[–]ztsmart -5 points-4 points  (13 children)

Coinbase is an exchange

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (12 children)

Blockchain is an online wallet, and that doesn't make the blockchain an online wallet.

[–]BlackBroker 0 points1 point  (11 children)

also coinbase is a broker, not an exchange

[–]ztsmart 0 points1 point  (10 children)

So where does Satoshi keep his coins? on the blockchain or Coinbase?

[–]BlackBroker 4 points5 points  (9 children)

satoshis coins are on the block chain, as are everyone else's bitcoins. many of his bitcoin originated from coinbase transactions. the blockchain and coinbase transactions are not Blockchain.info or coinbase.com wallets/accounts they are integral parts of the bitcoin protocol and you should probably do some research into how bitcoin works

[–]davidshares 5 points6 points  (4 children)

The 1933 address belongs to DPR/Ross Ulbricht

[–]Shuffle4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I always thought that and iv seen more of a connection but I don't think that was ever proven was it.?

[–]Ancercopes[🍰] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

The 1933 address was recently split. I doubt DPR did that from jail.

[–]gwern[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yeah, it was linked to a big Mtgox account by an early adopter. A Redditor claimed to've figured out who it was and told us it wasn't anyone interesting.

[–]lavinator90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upvote for to've

[–]ninja_parade 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Good research. Definitely in line with the message in the genesis block.

/u/changetip 8 mBTC.

[–]edlund10 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Thanks for the tip. Another important thing about the year 1975 - it was the year in which gold ownership was legalized for the mere mortals in the US:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1975#January_6.2C_1975_.28Monday.29

After the sale of gold was legalized in the United States, for the first time since 1933, on December 31, the U.S. Treasury conducted its first auction of a part of its gold reserves, setting aside an unprecedented 2,000,000 ounces for sale, in individual 400 ounce gold bricks, valued at $70,000 apiece based on the European market price of $175 an ounce.

[–]gwern[S] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Impressive! That's a perfect fit: the date refers to banning gold, and the year refers to relegalizing gold. If this isn't why Satoshi chose 5 April 1975, it's the damndest bit of pareidolia I've seen in a while.

[–]howtovanish -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This might help you understand the greater context and how this potential easter egg might play into the larger role of things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9VBWmqrDaY

[–]changetip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The tip for 8.0000 milli-bitcoins has been confirmed and collected by /u/edlund10

What's this?

[–]ActualAdviceBTC 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bravo.

[–]Dave_Aiello 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Another anecdote supporting Nick Szabo as Satoshi Nakamoto. Szabo is extremely well versed in monetary history.

[–]surfer431 5 points6 points  (3 children)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_5 TONS of events, birthdays, and deaths happened on April 5.

This is cherry picking and likely is not why Satoshi picked this date.

[–]sjalq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, very likely a coincidence. But it is kinda cool to see Satoshi be elevated to mythical pre-cog status.

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    [–]markovcd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    This is the real reason why Satoshi picked this date.

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      [–]socium 2 points3 points  (20 children)

      That guy has got to be the real Satoshi.

      [–]typing 7 points8 points  (16 children)

      Hal Finny is truely a brilliant man, and if not satoshi, certainly a person of the group who makes up the character satoshi. I hope this man gets the all appreciation he deserves. May life become ever less difficult for Hal, for what he's been going through must be a living hell.

      [–]bobalot 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      if not satoshi, certainly a person of the group who makes up the character satoshi.

      The thing is, satoshi didn't really do anything that would require a group of people. Almost all the pieces for him were already built, he just had to assemble them in the right way. He was literally standing on the shoulders of giants.

      [–]typing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Hal Finny is a giant.

      [–]socium 3 points4 points  (13 children)

      And to think, lots of what he's going through could have been prevented by the use of stem cell technology.

      Religion truly is, a mindkiller.

      [–]goonsack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      To be frank, even if it weren't for the stem cell federal funding ban under GWB, I really don't think we would have had a cure for ALS by now. It's still not a very well understood disease, and stem cells are not a magical panacea. There's a great deal more work to be done.

      Although the federal funding ban was disruptive to a lot of ongoing research in the US, it wasn't as bad as it could have been (the research was not banned outright). In fact, performing such research was still possible in other countries, and in the US too provided funding means other than federal grants were used (private philanthropy, private research organization, state grants, etc.).

      For example, the State of California helped to ensure a lot of funding continuity for stem cell researchers. This did lead to a bureaucratic clusterfuck where researchers that received funding from both federal and other sources had to clearly demarcate (using stickers) which equipment was paid for with what money -- to ensure no federally-paid-for equipment was being used for stem cell lines that did not have a federal exception. So it was a headache, and a setback. But it could've been way worse.

      And although I don't share the same moral concerns as the lobbying bloc that pushed for the federal stem cell funding ban, I can totally identify with them. Their tax money was being used for something they believed was morally reprehensible, and they exerted their political voice to stop it. Of course, this sort of blanket ban wasn't really fair to all the taxpayers who were for federal support of stem cell research. But I guess that's democracy for you! Now if only this supposedly "pro-life" bloc had lobbied the federal government to stop blowing up brown kids in other countries... But I guess that's harder to do since so many war profiteers make money off of that.

      [–]typing 1 point2 points  (8 children)

      No need to bring /r/atheism in here, but there will always be people who don't have access to these such things.

      [–]socium 1 point2 points  (3 children)

      Those people then move to China, where they just get a simple stemcell injection which apparently does miracles (no pun intended).

      [–]typing -1 points0 points  (2 children)

      Because everyone can afford to just pick up and move to china, no.

      [–]socium 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      Not move, just temporarily visit. Also, because of certain policies, that wouldn't have to be necessary nor expensive in the first place.

      [–]typing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Temporary visit? Do you not understand poverty? Many people can not even afford to visit other parts of their OWN country.

      [–]Beetle559 0 points1 point  (3 children)

      Not necessarily, we have access to goods our great grandparents couldn't have dreamed of.

      [–]typing 2 points3 points  (2 children)

      Yes WE do, people living in small tribes in Ethiopia, no.

      [–]Beetle559 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      But even there conditions are improving. There's still a long way to go of course but the trend is heading in the right direction in the poorest parts of the world.

      [–]typing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Ok fine, jeez everyone nit picks to death.

      eventually everyone will have access to everything they need.

      happy?

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        [–]neosatus 2 points3 points  (1 child)

        No it's not. They can harvest the cells and they are replaced naturally. Nothing is harmed.

        [–]goonsack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        You're correct, in a way. It's possible to harvest stem cells from (umbilical) cord blood for example. This does not harm the baby.

        Back in the early days of stem cell research though, most of them were harvested from aborted foetuses, or from embryos created through IVF that were going to be discarded anyway. These are the practices that certain people objected to.

        But more importantly, there's ways around harvesting stem cells from foetuses nowadays. Researchers can harvest skin cells from adult patients and turn them back into stem cells through a process called "induced pluripotency". It's pretty neat. And for stem cells that are intended for therapeutic use, this may be a preferable technique, because the patient's immune system won't recognize these cells as foreign (they are genetically identical to the patient's other somatic cells in every respect that matters).

        [–]Circle_Dot 2 points3 points  (2 children)

        I thought so too until doing research over the past month. There are many coincidences or clues that point to Hal being Satoshi. For example: Hal's Bitcointalk account was created 13 days before Satoshis final post, one of Hal's early posts says he is "new to the code" when he was there 1 1/2 years earlier during the first week of bitcoin and well versed in pow and cryptography, admitting he had a lot of coins in a safety deposit for his heirs during a time when BTC was sub $100, his ALS starts to get worse during Satoshis final days........ And so on.

        What makes me not think Hal is Satoshi is that Hal had public correspondence with Satoshi on Sourceforge in the beginning and also private email correspondence too.

        I know lots of people create multiple profiles and use them as if they were someone else (see Reddit), but Hal would have had to decide to use the alias Satoshi and then plan out his correspondence with himself. The more I type this, the more I am starting to think Hal is Satoshi now. After all, Hal was into the cryptography which probably bread paranoia going back to the beginning and I could totally see someone in that field going paranoid and creating a false image while at the same time trying to establish an alibi or degree of separation for the real him. Hmmmm. I imagine, the only way we will know for sure is if Hal passes, which I certainly hope does not happen, and the "Satoshi coins" will start to be moved shortly after by his heirs.

        *spellings

        [–]gwern[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        one of Hal's early posts says he is "new to the code" when he was there 1 1/2 years earlier during the first week of bitcoin

        What do you mean? Hal wasn't hacking on the code or anything like that. Look at the early Sourceforge emails - Hal was running the precompiled binary and didn't even try to debug a crash he ran into.

        [–]davidshares 9 points10 points  (3 children)

        You can probably find a connection with lots of things, like

        1081 – Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, bringing the Komnenian dynasty to full power.

        As we all know, Satoshi has famously solved the two generals problem, or also known as, the Byzantine Generals' Problem.

        [–]Natanael_L 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Can you find a Merkle in there too?

        [–]its_sad_i_know_this 1 point2 points  (1 child)

        BG is a generalized case of of TG, TG remains not just unsolved, but provably unsolvable.

        While Satoshi deserves massive credit for the work done with Bitcoin, I can't help but think that people generally overstate his contribution to BG as well. Byzantine Fault Tolerance is the solution to BG. There were other implementations of BFT before Bitcoin for other applications. Satoshi found a way to implement it for verifying majority consensus of a shared Proof-of-Work chain.

        [–]blazes816 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        And Nick Szabo was the first known person to implement a solution to implement BFT by way to chain of proofs of work for BitGold, not Satoshi. He modified it heavily, but the idea was out there.

        [–]ztsmart 14 points15 points  (1 child)

        April is the 4th month.

        5+4 = 9

        Satoshi became a member of the p2p foundation on the 11th.

        Therefore, Bitcoin is responsible for 9/11

        [–]s0sh1b3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        What a wild and irresponsible conclusion. I must condemn this comment with the utmost contempt.

        Besides, if you'd been paying attention, you would have seen the real reason April 5th was chosen:

        Actually you got off to a good start. April is the fourth month, so

        4+5=9

        But then divide by three and...

        9/3=3

        SATOSHI IS GABEN! BIT-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED.

        [–]karljt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        If the real Satoshi Nakamoto ever revealed himself to the world I get the feeling it would be like the second coming of Christ for you lot!

        [–]GSpotAssassin 10 points11 points  (11 children)

        Holy shit, it's my birthday too, that's awesome

        [–]Senor_Ding-Dong 11 points12 points  (8 children)

        Satoshi?

        [–]xrandr 29 points30 points  (5 children)

        Somebody call Leah! We have forensic evidence here!

        [–]Senor_Ding-Dong 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        We haven't been able to say he is NOT satoshi yet, so we're practically able to confirm that he IS satoshi now.

        [–]goonsack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Pssssshh

        [–]luffintlimme 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        They're on /r/bitcoin, they have the same birthday as Satoshi, they're interested in technology. There's just so many signs pointing to them being Satoshi. They MUST be Satoshi!

        [–]lifeboatz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        More evidence: Frequently after typing two spaces, they follow it with a capital letter. Same as Satoshi.

        [–]GSpotAssassin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        lol

        [–]Natanael_L 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Nah, it's Dorian again

        [–]jprichardson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        TIL I share a bday with Satoshi Nakamoto and... GSpotAssassin.

        [–]shawnhi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        My birthday too!

        [–]TurnTheShip 8 points9 points  (9 children)

        5th of April is the end of the fiscal year in the UK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year#United_Kingdom

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          [–]ITwitchToo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

          Many countries still have strong ties to Great Britain from the colonial era. It could easily be somebody who grew up in Hong Kong and moved to the United States as a teenager or young adult.

          [–]gwern[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

          Why would Satoshi make his birthday the end of the UK fiscal year?

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            [–]gwern[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

            If so, then he would have been better off inserting a reference to a 'Tax Freedom Day' (note that none of the dates in the WP listings include '5 April', which is actually a little surprising given how the date usually falls in March-May).

            [–]PleasantGoat 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            Tax Freedom Day changes every year, and is different for each person if viewed on an individual basis.

            [–]gwern[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Tax Freedom Day changes every year

            Yes. I realize that. And specifically addressed that in my comment.

            is different for each person if viewed on an individual basis.

            And individuals generally cannot calculate their own day, and it would render it a meaningless bit of symbolism in any case.

            [–]Tenoke 3 points4 points  (5 children)

            Happy Birthday, Satoshi!

            (Although I believe it is plausible that he might've just clicked the 4th month and the 5th by making the same-length small down movement on both dropdown menus before clicking in order to have anything filled in at all)

            [–]drcross 8 points9 points  (0 children)

            We're entering the twilight zone in speculation here.

            [–]chris45215 0 points1 point  (3 children)

            Possible. But, for the sake of simplicity, I think we can assume he put in his actual birthday. It doesn't make any difference whether he put in a real or fake one.

            [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

            of course he didn't use his actual birthday lol. but we can still celebrate today, as it's as good as any.

            [–]keokq 5 points6 points  (1 child)

            Similarly, it's not like Jesus was actually born on the 25th of December.

            [–]Beetle559 5 points6 points  (0 children)

            This guy gets it. Satoshi is Jesus.

            [–]lajpatdhingra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            me too celeberating my birthday today :)

            [–]EyEmSophaKingWeTodEd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            youtube.com/watch?v=FBw-TSH-Z8g

            [–]WelpSigh 1 point2 points  (2 children)

            Dorian Nakamoto's birthdate is April 5th

            [–]gwern[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

            Cite?

            [–]ArisKatsaris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I don't think so.

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            [–]3dreamersrecords 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            Today is also my birthday

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Happy birthday!

            [–]FjornHorn 2 points3 points  (1 child)

            Satoshi is AI from the future, he's not born.

            [–]flitterio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            "Thou shall not violate causality in my historic light cone. Or else."

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            In Numerology, 5 is for Action - pretty ambiguous but I'll allow it.

            [–]romerun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Apparently, April 5 is my birthday, may I have my cake?

            [–]Rainbowologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            What a mysterious person Satoshi Nakamoto is.

            [–]nxqv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            You guys speculate on everything. If I were Satoshi I would just click a random date and get on with posting on the forum...

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Leave the poor billionaire alone.

            Edit: P.S. Thanks for bitcoin dude.

            [–]lucb1e 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I really doubt it. Why would he use his real date of birth when he is trying to stay anonymous? If I were him I'd either filled in January first or rolled with dice.

            [–]sn811 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            welcome to the quest. more to come :)

            [–]pozmu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            :)

            [–]gldtalk 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            Woot Woot! Happy birthday Satoshi (as bitcoin goes into the tank). lol

            [–]jzcjca00 2 points3 points  (0 children)

            In the tank? Some perspective here. I bought at $42 a bit more than a year ago. It's over $450 now. Just what kind of tank is this?

            [–]HypnoticGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            This sure is a lot of work to come up with Satoshi's age when we all know that the correct answer is 42.

            [–]CP70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Happy fellow cakeday!

            [–]andyrowe 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            It is believed that Kurt Cobain killed himself on 5 April. He was found 8 April.

            [–]cal1fub3ralle5 12 points13 points  (0 children)

            Maybe Kurt Cobain faked his death in order to devote more time to developing bitcoin.