Back in the mid 2010s, there were a bunch of us literally meeting Satoshi. I thought long & hard about what & why. Eventually I came up with Prometheus' goals:
1. preserve the legend
2. protect the people
3. get them back to work
It was the 1st that didn't ring well.
The legend of Satoshi was an amazing thing, a modern day, technophiliac version of Robin Hood, King Arthur, St George. Surely it should be preserved? Grown? Protected?
But even as I was thinking that, we didn't act for that - quite the reverse.
We invented phrases like "we are all Satoshi" from Spartacus, and "Satoshi is dead, long live Satoshi." We joined with the maxis to kill the papparazi outing, we collapsed the tent at the Big Reveal. We hid, we prevaricated, dissembled.
We did our best to deflate the legend.
Truth was, the legend had grown, consumed, mestastasized. When, allegedly, a Satoshi was revealed, it was no good. He was not the Satoshi they all wanted, and could never really could fit the shoes of the giant from a mere 5 years back.
The legend of Satoshi had so taken over the minds of our world that it is somewhat doubtful that any human could fit those shoes. As some evidence, nobody was ever found to do that, neither in the open nor hidden, and the one leading claimant was mostly dismissed with prejudice.
The legend of Satoshi, the Satoshi, had become a barrier. The burden, the holy grail. In danger of turning all into religious warriors, fighting for a cross or star or moon with little merit or understanding.
@lopp then is right to paraphrase the Buddist exortation:
"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill the Buddha."
Kill the Satoshi and free yourself.
(NB, google the words to understand them.)
imo, Craig is trying to wrest the vision back from the BTCcore guys.
https://x.com/iang_fc/status/1768779323752804465?t=qMiDzQEqy6TCWJLVluK4vg&s=35
1. preserve the legend
2. protect the people
3. get them back to work
It was the 1st that didn't ring well.
The legend of Satoshi was an amazing thing, a modern day, technophiliac version of Robin Hood, King Arthur, St George. Surely it should be preserved? Grown? Protected?
But even as I was thinking that, we didn't act for that - quite the reverse.
We invented phrases like "we are all Satoshi" from Spartacus, and "Satoshi is dead, long live Satoshi." We joined with the maxis to kill the papparazi outing, we collapsed the tent at the Big Reveal. We hid, we prevaricated, dissembled.
We did our best to deflate the legend.
Truth was, the legend had grown, consumed, mestastasized. When, allegedly, a Satoshi was revealed, it was no good. He was not the Satoshi they all wanted, and could never really could fit the shoes of the giant from a mere 5 years back.
The legend of Satoshi had so taken over the minds of our world that it is somewhat doubtful that any human could fit those shoes. As some evidence, nobody was ever found to do that, neither in the open nor hidden, and the one leading claimant was mostly dismissed with prejudice.
The legend of Satoshi, the Satoshi, had become a barrier. The burden, the holy grail. In danger of turning all into religious warriors, fighting for a cross or star or moon with little merit or understanding.
@lopp then is right to paraphrase the Buddist exortation:
"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill the Buddha."
Kill the Satoshi and free yourself.
(NB, google the words to understand them.)
imo, Craig is trying to wrest the vision back from the BTCcore guys.
https://x.com/iang_fc/status/1768779323752804465?t=qMiDzQEqy6TCWJLVluK4vg&s=35
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