SJ:From wired book: Steve Jobs may have come from Silicon valley, but he belong to the world. For much of the past 3 decades, Jobs set the agenda for not only the Technology industry, but also the culture at large. The mac ipod pixar iphone u can debate which one is more significant, but u cant argue that they affect people or the world broadly. WIRED: Steve Jobs, Revolutionary
1984: Apple revolution started with anti-IBM commercial. 1994 Steve jobs . its in apples DNA that technology alone is not enfu .. married with liberal arts married with humanity…
society was there to be reshaped~ was a view of his //////////////////did LCD
Think different ~1998
“Mac will be the digital hub of our emerging digital lifestyle” ~ 2001
On the importance of software to the computer industry from 1995 on: "There hasn't really been a revolution in how we created software, at least not in the last 20 years. [But] software is infiltrating everything we do these days. Software is going to be a major enabler in our society."
Xexox had 3 things ( insipired remade in the future. Foraward thinking products)says Jobs:
1:Graphical user interface window menu system panels crude didn’t work right. All there tho .
2: Objectss oriented language small ltalk object oriented software.
3: Networking: Ethernet email servers
Death is the invention of life.
Died Wednesday OCT 5th 2011
SN: quotes: feb 14 2010 im sure there will
\june 21 lost coins make every ones worth more
July 10 2010
July 20th bitcoin is an implementation of Wei Dai’s b money proposal on cypherpunks in 1998 and nick szabo bitgold proposal. July 29th extremely busy if u dnt get it I don’t have time to convince u march 6 2014 last post.
Kaminsky wasn’t alone in this assessment. Soon after creating the currency, Nakamoto posted a nine-page technical paper describing how bitcoin would function. That document included three references to the work of Stuart Haber, a researcher at H.P. Labs, in Princeton. Haber is a director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and knew all about bitcoin. “Whoever did this had a deep understanding of cryptography,” Haber said when I called. “They’ve read the academic papers, they have a keen intelligence, and they’re combining the concepts in a genuinely new way.”
Haber noted that the community of cryptographers is very small: about three hundred people a year attend the most important conference, the annual gathering in Santa Barbara. In all likelihood, Nakamoto belonged to this insular world. If I wanted to find him, the Crypto 2011 conference would be the place to start.
Gray areas, however, are dangerous, which may be why Nakamoto constructed bitcoin in secret. It may also explain why he built the code with the same peer-to-peer technology that facilitates the exchange of pirated movies and music: users connect with each other instead of with a central server. There is no company in control, no office to raid, and nobody to arrest.
Nakamoto’s extensive online postings have some distinctive characteristics. First of all, there is the flawless English. Over the course of two years, he dashed off about eighty thousand words—the approximate length of a novel—and made only a few typos. He covered topics ranging from the theories of the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises to the history of commodity markets. Perhaps most interestingly, when he created the first fifty bitcoins, now known as the “genesis block,” he permanently embedded a brief line of text into the data: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”
Zen economics Money is a measure of wealth, and we invent money as we invent the Fahrenheit scale of temperature or the avoirdupois measure of weight… By contrast with money, true wealth is the sum of energy, technical intelligence, and raw materials.
This is a reference to a Times of London article that indicated that the British government had failed to stimulate the economy. Nakamoto appeared to be saying that it was time to try something new. The text, hidden amid a jumble of code, was a sort of digital battle cry. It also indicated that Nakamoto read a British newspaper. He used British spelling (“favour,” “colour,” “grey,” “modernised”) and at one point described something as being “bloody hard.” An apartment was a “flat,” math was “maths,” and his comments tended to appear after normal business hours ended in the United Kingdom. In an initial post announcing bitcoin, he employed American-style spelling. But after that a British style appeared to flow naturally.
Michael Clear.= possible satoshi baton taker
The next morning, Clear sent a lengthy e-mail. “It is apparent that the person(s) behind the Satoshi name accumulated a not insignificant knowledge of applied cryptography,” he wrote, adding that the design was “elegant” and required “considerable effort and dedication, and programming proficiency.” But Clear also described some of bitcoin’s weaknesses. He pointed out that users were expected to download their own encryption software to secure their virtual wallets. Clear felt that the bitcoin software should automatically provide such security. He also worried about the system’s ability to grow and the fact that early adopters received an outsized share of bitcoins.
But this is about more than whether you can get a sexting app for your iPhone. We don’t know what is in the code of Apple’s operating systems, because no one but Apple can check it — and no one but Apple can fix it. This has led not just to security failures, which in today’s computing systems are nearly inevitable, but to sometimes long delays in fixing those problems. Despite all this, many users continue to trust Apple, in part because of the image of a steady hand projected for many years by Steve Jobs.
In this way, Apple and Bitcoin are mirror images of each other — we know almost nothing about Bitcoin’s founder, but everything about its substance. We know a lot about Apple’s founder, but very little about its code.
Fast Company's investigation brought up circumstantial evidence that indicated a link between an encryption patent application filed by Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry on 15 August 2008, and the bitcoin.org domain name which was registered 72 hours later. The patent application contained networking and encryption technologies similar to Bitcoin's. After textual analysis, the phrase "...computationally impractical to reverse" was found in both the patent application and bitcoin's whitepaper.[2] All three inventors explicitly denied being Satoshi Nakamoto
Nakamoto has claimed that he has been working on Bitcoin since 2007. In 2008, he published a paper on The Cryptography Mailing List at metzdowd.com describing the Bitcoin digital currency. In 2009, he released the first Bitcoin software that launched the network and the first units of the Bitcoin currency.
Version 0.1 was for Windows only and had no command-line interface. It was compiled using Microsoft Visual Studio. The code was elegant in some ways and inelegant in others. The code does not appear to have been written by either a total amateur or a professional programmer; some people speculate based on this that Satoshi was an academic with a lot of theoretical knowledge but not much programming experience. Version 0.1 was remarkably complete. If Satoshi truly only worked on it alone for two years, he must have spent a massive amount of time on the project.
Nakamoto was active in making modifications to the Bitcoin software and posting technical information on the Bitcoin Forum until his contact with other Bitcoin developers and the community gradually began to fade in mid-2010. Until a few months before he left, almost all modifications to the source code were done by Satoshi -- he accepted contributions relatively rarely. Just before he left, he set up Gavin Andresen as his successor by giving him access to the Bitcoin SourceForge project and a copy of the alert key.
SJ announces 6 month break 6 month before code is bitcoin officially launched
Buddhist Economic:
~Consumerism wealth and the value of giving ( DANA )
~The socially engaged Buddhist critiques consumerism as the commoditization of culture and religious values.
Does not reject accumulation of wealth. Attatchment of wealth is blame worth. Acquiring wealth is acceptable if it benefits society.
Craving hoarding accumulating to much Dana critiques
Amount of wealth possess and distribution is less important than attitude and the way one uses it
~Balancing generous giving duty and social responsibility
~Poverty and duty of the King
~DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND THE LAW OF NATURE
1999-2000
1: principles of Buddhist econ:
Sufficiency econ approach to life applicable interconnerted indvi family nationevery level community
2 promotes middle path in era oof econ globilization
3 require sound judgement of planning and implantation of development theory
I think it's actually very commonly realized that personal coding style preferences are quite distinctive. For this reason, if this is a single individual trying to conceal their identity, it would seem quite obvious that they'd pick a coding style which cannot immediately be associated with other things they did in the past. Comment from Fast Company article
Neil King and Charles Bry very like SJ was in contact with these two just before creation. And/or passed the baton to.
