and I’d spent 2 years being underappreciated over in Zcash-land, which Komodo is a fork of, and I’ve been spending more and more of my time working on stuff in the Komodo ecosystem over the last two years rather than on Zcash proper i like komodo/pirate so much because they are actual COMMUNITIES for real i think

About Tortuga [the upcoming DEX], is that anonymous?

working on new gui wallet

no idea about Tortuga

[At this point Jane DM’s me and the conversation continues in private]



CoinDesk wrote that story right when I started to medically transition but had been going by Jane for a while already so of course they fucked it up

but regardless that piece got me an R&D contract after Fluffypony read it

he pay’s me $X/month to do whatever I want on privacy tech, he’s also of the philosophical belief that you need more than one privacy coin

he said that piece “broke him”

Did you also work on Bitcoin? I heard you were in the early bitcoin mailing list, or something like that

no i didn’t, I was the person that bugged Satoshi to start the first bitcoin mailing list. and then bailed because i got laid off from my job

What did he [Fluffypony] mean by “broke him”?

he got all emotional about me being in such a tough spot in life after putting in

so much work on zcash and them doing jack for me in return

and had two small kids and so DIDN’T become the 3rd bitcoin dev like i almost was, talk about missing the boat

Fluffypony is really a big softy inside don’t tell anyone lol

LOL

Ah i see. and you were in communication with Satoshi, for how long?

just a while in the very early days

a few emails

WOW

between whitepaper and launch knew hal for years online before that tho but life got in the way

Is there a detailed bio of you i can read somewhere?

no

i keep meaning to write an autobiography

There should be…

What did you do with Hal?

just hung out on all the same mailing lists for years

ran with all the same crypto crowds

Never met in person?

no

i never traveled much during most of my tech career

Do you have any theory about the identity of Satoshi? Maybe the nationality?

no freaking clue

all i know is that Satoshi has heard of me and CSW hasn’t lol the end

there was a thread or two that someone tagged me into on twitter with CSW and there was no “whao, radix42!!!!”

CSW is a fraud





LOL, that’s damning.

you’d THINK the person you quoted the email of bugging you about starting a mailing list to Hal would stick in your mind

I don’t need cryptographic proof from any Satoshi claimants, just the message-id of that email

they used a REALLY WEIRD windows email server

STRANGE metadata

coded the first versions in horrible C on windows

terrible coder, not a professional software engineer

rules out lots of suspects

How about the tone of the writing? tense, serious, relaxed, humorous, defensive, forthcoming…?

very terse and straightforward

spare

As i imagined

Do you recall what was weird about the metadata?

just weird windows email clients and shit that noone used

most def a strange windows geek

Yes, that’s ironic (open source blah)

hilarious actually

yeah

if you found my keybase and twitter you found https://janemercer.us/

So a terse windows geek non-pro coder with a good understanding of Crypto?’[

yup

if it was a collective of geeks would they use such weird email tools???

that argues for solo in my mind

There cant be many people in that demographic

yes the oddities suggest a single person, not a collective

that's my thinking

The IP addresses of those weird email servers, you must have checked them by now…

country?

gmail hid them from me

just could see weird user agent

damn

gmail knows

so five eyes knows

Five eyes?

ah, those countries

yeah

us, uk, Canada, aus, nz

intel sharing

we explicitly spy on each other to get around domestic surveillance rules and warrants did you know that? so fucked up

If you had that info would be much fun

there are people who run mailing lists and things who have Satoshi’s IP addresses (or did they use vpn’s?)

i’m sure the spooks know who Satoshi is, they have to.

Well I think this is a fascinating conversation. Would you mind if I publish it verbatim and add a little intro? a kind of follow up to my interview with FishyGuts and MrLynch

sure just run it by me first?

Sure. I usually wrap these pieces up by asking the interviewee to share a final thought, advice, or philosophy. If you think of something nice then let me know.

ok will do

and thanks for your time :smiley: You mentioned https://janemercer.us/, what can we find there?

mostly just links to stuff and list of things

ports I’ve done

donations addresses, short bio

Have u spoken about these Satoshi experiences? or has it been mentioned elsewhere?

I’ve tweeted about it before

it was just a few emails

but so revealing

just pestering them!

Would it be possible for me to quote one of the emails?

or include a pic of one?

lemme see if i can dig it up

I dunno if i have that archive anymore from that client

can’t find in online search and i was pulling down email a lot then and storing offline as i was in a paranoid phase

their client weirdnesses are widely known

none of this is new, just my slice of it

Yes but what a great slice! I mean … you are now legend :angel:

:smiley:

people have gone over every scrap of Satoshi shit with a fine toothed comb

there’s this from Hal:

https://pastebin.com/6e2JwLTa

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