May I have your attention please? | Photo: drestwn, CC BY 2.0

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May I have your attention please?

May I have your attention please?

Will the real Satoshi please stand up?

I repeat will the real Satoshi please stand up?

We’re going to have a problem here

Y’all act like you never seen a programmer before

Jaws all on the floor like Classic and Core just burst in the door

Started whippin’ out dicks worse than before they first got divorced

Throwing it over node-countin’

It’s the return of the “Oh wait, no way, you’re kidding,

He didn’t just say what I think he did, did he?”

And Karpeles said–

Nothing you idiots Karpeles is dead, he’s locked in my basement (ha ha)

Anarchist women love blockchains, chicka chicka chicka Satoshi I’m sick of him

Look at him, walking around grabbing his who knows what

Signin’ as you know who “yeah, but this one’s true though”

Yea he probably got a couple of screws up in his head loose

But no worse than what’s going on in your bankers’ boardrooms.

Sometimes I want to get online and yell till I’m hoarse, but can’t,

But it’s cool for newsthumpers to flog a dead horse:

This time Bitcoin’s dead, this time Bitcoin’s dead

But if we’re lucky SN might just raise his little head!

And that’s the message that they deliver to little kids

Expecting them not to know what basic cryptography is.

Of course they gonna know what a signature is, by the time they hit 4th grade,

They got Wikipedia now don’t they?

We ain’t nothing but backers,

Well some are backstabbers, who cut other people open like l33t hackers.

But if we can build a welfare state and procreate

Then there’s no reason that a man and two other men can’t create

An easy way around this godawful stalemate

Bloggers time to strike a pose, sing the chorus and it goes

We’re Satoshi, yes we’re the real ‘toshi

All you other Satoshis are just Sa-faux-shis

So won’t the real Satoshi, please stand up,

Please stand up,

Please stand up…?

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