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A Note From the Editors
by franknews
September 1, 2021
A note from the editors,
Two years ago, we spent a month looking at our grid system – we came away realizing that while we are deeply dependent on quick, readily accessible energy, very few people had an encompassing understanding of the system, the grid, that provided our energy.
That sense of disconnect is the same with much of the infrastructure that shapes our modern world. We take the ease that roads, damns, and powerlines provide for granted until they are strained or broken.
It’s painfully obvious that climate change is here, that society, as we know it, has changed, and that the infrastructure that maintains our society must change in response.
September looks at the intersection of climate and infrastructure.
-frank
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Who Is Satoshi? | Take Two
by Daniel Polotsky
January 24, 2020
According to Wikipedia, "Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation. As part of the implementation, Nakamoto also devised the first blockchain database."
All month we've been asking each contributor who they think Satoshi is and stockpiling their answers. Here is Daniel Polotsky's answer. You can read Daniel's interview, Crypto For The Cash Economy, in full now.
Daniel Polotsky is the CEO of CoinFlip, the leading Bitcoin ATM Operator in the US.
Who do you think Satoshi is?
Who is the Satoshi Nakamoto? If you really think about it, there's probably only a handful of people who are intelligent enough to make something like Bitcoin, have the cryptography skills. So it's not like it can be that many people, right? There have probably been people working on similar projects like Bitgold and all that other stuff in the past.
There is a theory that I buy into, that it was one of the people who led the cyber punk movement back in the day, like a bunch of libertarians who wanted money to be more free. It's probably one of those cryptographers or maybe it's them acting as a group. The common thing that everyone thinks is Nick Szabo or Hal Finney, I would think Hal Finney is a pretty good guess because if you think about it, the Bitcoin that Satoshi Nakamoto has, since he put them in his wallet, haven't moved. It could be somebody that passed away. I don't know why he wouldn't leave it to his kids, but the wallet hasn't moved. It's probably somebody from that group.