Yesterday, another surely mentally stable character stood up and claimed the title of bitcoin's creator. The big reveal began with 'teasers' starting a few weeks back, and 3 days of hype ending with the name announcement.
None other than James Bilal Caan! Well, now it all makes sense!
Just kidding, I have no idea who he is either, but imagine our luck - he has something to promote!
"Satoshi Nakamoto Renaissance Holdings" is ready to provide 'industry-leading Blockchain products and services'.
Before you go asking why a billionaire like Satoshi is available to hire, you need to understand everyone makes mistakes, and 'oops' - he lost the hard drive containing the keys needed to access the approximate 1 million BTC.
I really doubt we'll be hearing much from Caan in the future, by any standard this publicity stunt was a flop.
To me, there will always be only one REAL fake Satoshi...
I don't even need to say the name - that's how official it is.
Imposers like Caan aren't worth a second of his time, as he traveled around the world to meet some faithful believers in Colombia.
Check out this totally not-creepy video of the one and only, mingling with fans...
Okay, now seriously...
I love this stuff, and god bless Craig, and even the new guy who's name I already forgot. You can't put a price tag on entertainment like this.
But while some people make jokes, and other people debate the technical aspects of someone proving they're Satoshi, debating if Craig's best evidence is forged backdated PGP keys, etc - I will forever be hung up on one simple factor...
How did Satoshi apparently go through the biggest personality change I've ever seen in a person?
Anyone can look back at the e-mails exchanged during Bitcoin's creation. As the real Satoshi took on building such a complex system from scratch, which no doubt was full of frustrating moments - he remains calm, cool and collected.
There's so many examples of the real Satoshi's communications you can get a feel for how he conducts himself - never over-emotional, always rational, he's not impulsive, or vulgar, or angry even at moments the typical coder would be.
It's not surprising these unique traits created something equally unique.
Don't try to tell me it turns out this whole time he was really just another dime-a-dozen spotlight-loving attention whore, always ready to give a big "f*ck you" to anyone who disagrees with them.
I'll also add, to be fair - anyone saying Craig is an idiot is lying as well.
Obnoxious? Yes. Stupid? No.
However, this isn't my first role in media, at one point I worked for the largest broadcasting company in the nation, and there I saw what we're seeing now... often.
A dark side of human nature absolutely allows for a talented person who made real contributions to something, can, for whatever reason, want to take full credit for it - and they set out to do exactly that, with incredible drive too.
I think that's what we have here, and will continue to until I see some transactions on the blockchain, from a wallet belonging to the real Satoshi.
Anything short of this, well... falls short.
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Author: Ross Davis
E-Mail: Ross@GlobalCryptoPress.com Twitter:@RossFM
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