[Air-L] Fun bit from the NYT reveal into Satoshi’s identity

[Charles Melvin Ess]

Hi Freyja,

Good question!
Perhaps it didn't show up in your reader - it didn't in one of mine. But 
Sarah's note included:

 > I thought members of this Internet mailing list, a sort of precursor to
 > today’s message boards, might enjoy the following passage from the New
 > York Times’ recent investigation into the identity of the bitcoin
 > creator pseudonymously referred to as “Satoshi Nakamoto.” And by enjoy,
 > I mean that it might perhaps make you scream in annoyance, as it did 
to me:

I was trying to suggest, for the sake of humor if nothing else, that she 
was not only one screaming in annoyance.

Perhaps you'll join us? (smile)

all best,
- c.

On 11/04/2026 15:06, Freyja van den Boom wrote:
> Hi Charles....why the screams !?
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> I.. I... I just don't know where to start with this... Thanks for 
> sharing. A good scream (or two or three...) in annoyance helps start the 
> morning right.
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> I thought members of this Internet mailing list, a sort of precursor to 
> today’s message boards, might enjoy the following passage from the New 
> York Times’ recent investigation into the identity of the bitcoin 
> creator pseudonymously referred to as “Satoshi Nakamoto.” And by enjoy, 
> I mean that it might perhaps make you scream in annoyance, as it did to me:
> 
> 
> “Satoshi was also very likely a member of the Cypherpunks, a group of 
> anarchists formed in the early 1990s who wanted to use cryptography, the 
> art of securing communications through code, to free individuals from 
> government surveillance and censorship.
> 
> 
> The Cypherpunks interacted mostly through something called an internet 
> mailing list. Ancestors of today’s message boards, mailing lists were 
> large group emails in old typewriter font that subscribers received in 
> their inbox. To communicate, respondents replied-all.”
> 
> 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto- 
> identity-adam-back.html <https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/ 
> bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html>
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