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Logically Whether Satoshi Connected To Himself

Preamble

Alex published a well-researched piece recently about the first few miners of Bitcoin in 2009. In it, he presents some information, screenshots and transcripts which paint a fun early view of the initial Bitcoiners, and how the network coalesced.

The Problem

For some time now, people have utilized the speculation that Satoshi connected to himself in order to trigger mining (which required a second node to be connected before it would,) as an excuse to do massive initial premines for their scamcoins and/or distribute massive premine-like runs on their coins to Founders or other classes of early people. The justification logic goes something like this:

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Preamble

People rarely come to almost the same conclusions about Bitcoin as are most compatible with ancient Bitcoiner understanding: it typically requires god-level wisdom in terms of digging up high-quality information, or someone with an ancient Bitcoin understanding very carefully supplying otherwise heavily obscured information to someone over time. Typically new people are bombarded by the lies and massive self-referential echo chambers that Bitcoin attackers have been building for 8 years or more and based on experience it's difficult even for extremely intelligent and capable people to avoid mistakenly integrating at least a few of these lies over time.

I've been essentially repeating myself for more than a decade, and much of what I assume are baseline, obvious facts are things that are not easily-accessible to new users.

There Is No Market Cap

Thus, it's painful for me to beat my old there-is-no-market-cap drum again. But.. [there is no Bitcoin market cap.](https://twitter.com/search?

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#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> ladeies and gentlemen
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> what happens to bitcoin
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> if ther internetz everz goez downz?
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <senseles> hope that some people put up free to use cubesats
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <senseles> i want my own cube sat :(
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> can the bitcoin block discovery every 10 minutes
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> run over cube sats, whatever they mayb e?
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <senseles> it's a 50,000$ satellite
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <senseles> 100,000$ including launch
#bitcoin-dev @20110717 <accel_> so that's like what, 5K btc?

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#!/bin/bash

export USE_LXC=1
export NUM_PROCS=30
export MEMORY_USE=45000
export SIGNER=0x28DF2724F241D8EE
export SIGNERNAME=midnightmagic
export ROOTBUILD=/path/to/root/build/dir

export DOSIGS=${DOSIGS:-yes}

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*** supybot     2015-10-03 04:25:29.211350138 -0700
--- /opt-limnoria-old/bin/supybot        2015-10-10 03:59:25.091350138 -0700
***************
*** 1,4 ****
! #!/usr/bin/env python
  
  ###
  # Copyright (c) 2003-2004, Jeremiah Fincher
--- 1,4 ----
! #!/usr/bin/python

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use JSON;
use Data::Dumper;
use JSON::RPC::Client;
use POSIX;
use LWP;

if ($#ARGV + 1 < 1) {
#  print "Current $ARGV[0] replacing with 0 due to ".$#ARGV." < 1\n";

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

4e25f14bdbe817bb88bb9a99ae10049990e99546015a1071e77b8c9b090893ff namecoind

I built the above binary from the git commitid:
db10ddb1a712e499068b477af027a3110b3aad3b from:
https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin/tree/relay_tmp_fix

Which I retrieved from github's namecoin repo.

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#!/bin/bash

if [ $# -ne 2 ]
then
	echo usage: $0 '[top|head|N] [tail|bottom|-M|M]'
	echo "       "-M means first arg minus integer M
	exit 1
fi

FIRST=$1; [ "$1" = "head" -o "$1" = "top" ] && \

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Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.hybh6l
+ umask 022
+ cd /v/soft/kern/kernel/BUILD
+ patch_command=patch -p1 -F1 -s
+ [ ! -d kernel-2.6.32-279.5.2.el6/vanilla-2.6.32-279.5.2.el6/ ]
+ cd kernel-2.6.32-279.5.2.el6/
+ [ -d linux-2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.centos.plus.x86_64 ]
+ rm -rf deleteme.x86_64
+ mv linux-2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.centos.plus.x86_64 deleteme.x86_64
+ rm+ rf deleteme.x86_64

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commit f4d2863dd674f73f23012e56ed59f0013913431d
Author: Kano <root@mutsumi.paige>
Date:   Fri Mar 30 18:54:14 2012 +1100

    icarus.c reduce stale by aborting work on LP

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index bdef687..7e18d95 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac