Satoshi Nakamoto ‘Let There Be Light’
The Satoshi Nakamoto Legends lives with ‘Nour’ Tweet
Bitcoin’s price may be down of late, but the crypto memes never really take a break. Satoshi Nakamoto’s account posts on P2P Foundation Forum and while it’s a likely hack, it’s still amusing.
So what happend? The mythical Bitcoin inventor has an apparent account that was once associated with the identity on the non-profit global network P2P Foundation posted a one-word status update yesterday, Nov. 29, 2018. The post is one word, nour, the Arabic word for light.
The meaning of yesterday’s update, which reads simply “nour,” in quotation marks, is not easily deciphered — and or not highly symbolic. Is it the lightning network or is it Bitcoin's reincarnation in a more regulated age we are seeing. A lot has happend with Bitcoin and digital assets in ten years.
Another possibility is that “nour” is a transliteration of Arabic “نور” for “light,” also used to mean “light” or “fire” in ancient Hebrew. Crypto has been on fire recently, and coin death and ICO extinction could lead to new things such as STOs, venture capital, crypto funds and new kinds of blockchain startups that actually have users and live products with market-fit. It also could be the passing of the torch of Bitcoin to more scalable communities like Ethereum and others.
The P2P Foundation account of Satoshi Nakamoto is active again after laying dormant for four years and there’s a random Brazilian-Japanese connection. Bitcoin’s creator has made a new friend. Satoshi Nakamoto connected with Wagner Tamanaha.
There’s even a rather ridiculous theory that Satoshi is offering a clue to his shocking true identity: in which case, Nouriel Roubini — ‘Dr Doom’ — has been engaged in a double-bluff (which is a bit silly). Steemit might be dying, but the legend of Satoshi Nakamoto lives.
Bitcoin isn’t just a digital asset, its lore and memes act as entertainment for a crypto HODLer-ing generation. Nakamoto’s abrupt disappearance in late 2010 spawned a legend almost as famous as the cryptocurrency itself, which I think is amusing in an era where personal brands of digital asset developers and executives are fairly fun to follow.
