First up, from the
Nakamoto Family Foundation, June 29:
Announcing the first excerpt to a literary work consisting of two parts.
The excerpt is provided. I wanted to include it as a brief glimpse of
history. Even for those that can't read the full book, I wanted to make
this available to everyone. A short story if you will, with some of the
most brought up questions and answers. I wanted the people and the facts
to be known. Or as much of it. I'm still saving most for the books, the
best parts hopefully.
It's currently just a possibility for now. In the meantime the excerpt
is included.
Links with information about the book (if it comes to frution) will be posted here on this site in the coming month.
Names to both are in this puzzle to solve, for those who want spoilers head down to the excerpt: cryptopuzzle
- Convert letters to numbers
- Numbers like 1 represent the letter B, it is in mixed order
- Title of book broken into two parts is revealed at the end
The two part series is still alpha and experimental. There's no
guarantee the book will ever come to be, unless it becomes necessary and
people want to know about me personally.
In order to figure out the names for them, I have created a simple
cryptogram. It is ridiculously easy for anyone to solve, regardless of
age. No bruteforce needed. I also will provide the approximate release
dates later on in the case they do get made.
I would like to maintain that there were many who contributed to this
project, many names of which were not included, individuals who for
whatever reason have chosen not to go public and therefore out of
respect, I did not include them. Once these conversations are in the
public domain to include them in the possible series, I will do so. But
to be certain, there are countless conversations I found to be
enlightening that I hope make it to be part of the story. There will be
many new names and individuals appearing throughout the book in any
case, as it is a story about my personal life. Those willing to share
these conversations should, for the public
29 June 2018
Paper: Duality: An excerpt
Satoshi Nakamoto
nakamotofoundation@protonmail.com
And from Wired, July 1:
Years have gone by since any new piece of writing
has appeared by Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin.
But on Friday night, someone claiming to be Nakomoto published 21 pages of new material—a sneak preview, allegedly, of a book about the cryptocurrency’s origins.
The
excerpt appeared at 11:45 p.m., on a website,
NakamotoFamilyFoundation.org, anonymously purchased three days ago via
Amazon’s domain registrar. A proxy also established contact with WIRED
on the self-proclaimed Nakamoto’s behalf.
Ever
since bitcoin’s anonymous creation, numerous people have come forward
claiming to be Nakamoto; online conspiracy theories and journalistic
investigations have fingered one Satoshi after another. A widely
debunked 2014 Newsweek magazine article pointed to a Japanese-American
man in California; in 2015, WIRED
reported
that Australian academic Craig Wright “was either the inventor of
Bitcoin … or a hoaxer.” Wright continues to push that he’s Nakamoto,
even tweeting Friday in
a cryptic message that he would soon prove it and, over the weekend,
tweeting
without elaboration that the “new” Nakamoto writings were a fraud:
“Nakamotofamilyfoundation cannot get the dates nor technical details
correct.”
In all that time, no one has proven themselves to be
Nakamoto to the satisfaction of the members of the cryptographic
community that helped give birth to bitcoin. As skeptics in the
cryptography community have repeatedly pointed out, the true Satoshi
ought to have access
to the cryptographic keys that control the first bitcoins—coins that
have stayed put for a decade. If someone purporting to be Nakamoto were
to move one of those coins to a different address or sign something with
keys that only Satoshi has, that would be a pretty good form of
verification.
This
new Nakamoto—who still does not want his real identity
revealed—declined to move any coins or sign anything with his own keys.
“He” (if it is a him) is not, according to information provided to
WIRED, any of the three leading Nakamoto suspects: Wright, Nick Szabo,
or Dorian Nakamoto, the person identified previously by Newsweek.
WIRED
reached out to several members of the early bitcoin community in an
attempt to verify the authenticity of the excerpt—and came back, as has
happened every time Satoshi Nakamoto is sighted in the wild, with
inconclusive answers.
Bitcoin, He Wrote
The
excerpt, which this Nakamoto describes as a “short story,” includes a
cryptogram that he says reveals the title of his forthcoming book. The
simple numbers-for-letters substitution yields the words “Honne and
Tatamae,” a transliteration of a Japanese phrase meant to convey the
contrast between a person’s private feelings and their public behavior.
Similarly, the excerpt is entitled “Duality.”
The
text of the excerpt contains a smattering of potentially new,
identifying details. Nakamoto describes his mother is an author (“albeit
small circulation”) and his grandmother as the founder of a very small
publishing company. At age 14, he writes, he was drawn into the
cypherpunk community, “where anonymity was as fundamental as breathing.”
He says he was in his 20s when he began posting about bitcoin while
working as a university researcher in a lab, and that he came up with
the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto because it was the Japanese “equivalent
of ‘John Smith’”—though he all but confirms that he is not Japanese....
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