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RE: The Satoshi Parable

in #satoshi7 years ago (edited)

@belerophon, you missed the Q&A part in your previous writeup which was very interesting!

Ken Oshiro:

Hello my name is Ken Oshiro. I am a Tokyo meetup group organizer.
Since 2013 have hosted personally hosted 157 meetups.
I have a simple question:
Why do you think Satoshi used Japanese name? Is it with any specific reason?
I just like to know your opinion
Thank you.

Wright:

Well I had a single mother and one of the guys who helped bring me up was Japanese. I'm sure he would find it very cool because I thought it was a cool culture [laughing] and the whole idea of Japanese culture in many ways is exciting.
It reminds me of some of the Roman Empire back before they became no longer a republic it's people actually working together not the same sort of competition we think we need to have in the West but people working actively together including companies.
You don't see many companies in the West pulling together in coopertition anymore. We seem to think we need to actually fight each other that it's a zero-sum game. [Betrayed?] isn't a zero-sum game there was a taco guerra period philosopher who talked about trade in Japan he happens to have, well part of the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. His name was Nakamoto and he wrote about how Japan needed to open up and have trade with the West. That we need to work together and it will build a big strong country and we need to work together and build a big strong Bitcoin. It doesn't matter whether we like each other whatever else. We're all in the same boat we are not here to try and stifle Bitcoin. We want Bitcoin to be the financial sovereignty and security
mechanism for the world. It is not just censorship resistance, we get that by being big! If five billion people are using Bitcoin there is no censorship.
You try and tell me if seventeen thousand banks, and there are seventeen thousand banks on earth, only run nodes, which is more than we have now. If only those banks run them, you tell me that they're going to collude together.
When was the last time you saw a successful cartel in real life? [And] actually stay together. They don't. They all require government aid. Even De Beers is falling apart. De Beers was the longest cartel in history because they owned governments. They owned Rhodesia. They owned Sierra Leone. They don't anymore. So even they are falling apart