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This is a segment from the Supply Shock newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Overanalyzing every crumb in Satoshi Nakamoto’s long-cold trail isn’t exactly useful these days. Not to mention that Satoshi left for a reason and deserves his privacy.  But there’s hardly a better excuse to lean into the Nakamoto mystery than a cryptic fake birth date. It’s generally assumed that Satoshi listed April 5, 1975 as his birthday as a reference to President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 6102, which on that day in 1933 made it illegal for US citizens to hold physical gold — forcing them to give it to the government in return for cash. President Ford reversed the order in 1975, so at best we figure Satoshi mashed up those dates as a nod to bitcoin’s potential as self-sovereign digital gold outside of government control. Neat! On This Day – Satoshi was “born” Let’s be clear — today is probably not Satoshi’s 50th birthday. The facts: Satoshi set his birthday as April 5, 1975 in his P2P Foundation forum profile, which also stated that he resided in Japan (another unlikely factoid based on his known activity patterns). Satoshi’s only posts on this forum were to share the first version of Bitcoin, Bitcoin v0.1, in February 2009. He’d mined the genesis block about five weeks earlier and had already released the software via the Metzdowd cryptography mailing list. If today were really Satoshi’s birthday, he would’ve been 32 when he started coding Bitcoin in 2007. Perhaps Satoshi entering his founder era in his early thirties sounds about right.  Although you might already know about some idiosyncrasies that hint he could’ve been older. Double spaces Satoshi widely used double-spaces after sentences — in the whitepaper, on forums, and in emails.  Double-spaces are a relic of the typewriter era,…

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