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Popular crypto blogger Lark Davis assumes that, in theory, Steve Jobs may have been Bitcoin inventor, but his Twitter poll shows something else

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Crypto YouTuber and trader Lark Davis has posted a tweet, in which he reminded followers of the recent news of the Bitcoin whitepaper spotted within the operational system of Mac computers.

Davis, who is known on Twitter as @TheCryptoLark, admitted that this fact is indeed fueling speculation that the legendary Steve Jobs was even more legendary for the crypto community than Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin in 2009.

The blogger also stated that the periods when Satoshi went off the grid and Steve Jobs differ by just one year, with these events happening in 2010 and 2011. With this tweet, he started a poll, offering his audience the choice between three answers: "yes" Steve Jobs was Satoshi, "no" he was not and "it does not matter."

A total of 37.7% of the respondents chose "no." Slightly less but close to that, 35.4%, believe that it does not matter whether it was Jobs or anybody else. Apparently, the fact of Bitcoin's existence is more important to them than who was its real inventor.

The rest 26.9% stated they believe the new theory of Satoshi's identity after the recent news of Macs and the Bitcoin whitepaper. Overall, 8,537 respondents have thus far taken part in the survey.

The crypto community reacted mostly humorously to these speculations about Steve Jobs, the Apple founder, possibly being Satoshi and creating the digital currency that has begun to transform the payments industry. Many, however, said that it was likely not Jobs but the other Apple founder, Steve Wozniak, who is known to be a Bitcoin supporter.

Head of Binance CZ made a joking comment under a tweet about this news, suggesting that now is the time to search for the Bitcoin whitepaper in the code of Windows and Linux, perhaps implying that Steve Jobs, Wozniak and Bill Gates created Bitcoin together in a shabby garage somewhere.

David Gokhshtein, the founder of Gokhshtein Media, tweeted that he thinks that Jobs could be the actual creator of Bitcoin because "it makes sense." However, he added that he is still doing research, but deep in his heart, he still believes that Satoshi was Hal Finney, an American IT engineer, who was the first to receive a Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto. Sadly, he passed away three years after Jobs, in 2014, from complications caused by Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

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Satoshi Nakamoto is the name of the individual or group credited with inventing bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency. Their legend is shrouded in mystery.

The inventor's identity has never been confirmed, though April 5 marked their 48th birthday, according to information on a profile with The P2P Foundation.

This week, conspiracy theories connected the figure to the late Steve Jobs, the visionary Apple cofounder, following the revelation that Apple has shipped out Mac computers since 2018 with a copy of the original bitcoin white paper.

"While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018," technologist Andy Baio wrote in an April 5 blog post.

Nakamoto's paper, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," was published in October 2008. The abstract reads:

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."

Since then, bitcoin has become the largest cryptocurrency, with a market cap of about $540 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data on Friday.

Someone is behind the name, given that they invented bitcoin's complex source code, authored a white paper, and interacted with users on web forums.

Nakamoto's profile on The P2P Foundation lists their location as Japan. In their posts, however, Nakamoto has used British English spellings and expressions, leading some to assume they are in fact not Japanese, as the inventor claimed. Additionally, some have pointed to the time stamps on Nakamoto's comments as reason to believe they were not located in Japan.

In 2011, a comment from that account stated that they had "moved onto other things."

The name is also associated with a number of crypto wallets, presumably owned by Nakamoto. Some estimate that those wallets hold more than 1.1 million bitcoin tokens. When bitcoin peaked in November 2021 at $68,000, those holdings would have been worth about $73 billion, placing Nakamoto among the 15 riches people in the world at the time.

Some have speculated that the chances Nakamoto is one person are low, given the complexity of bitcoin's source code.

"Either there's a team of people who worked on this or this guy is a genius," Dan Kaminsky, a leading internet-security researcher, told The New Yorker in 2011.

In his white paper, Nakamoto cited the work of Stuart Haber, a computer scientist credited with helping invent blockchain technology. Haber has echoed Kaminsky's sentiment that the programmer behind bitcoin would have had a "keen intelligence."

In 2013, Nick Szabo, a computer scientist who published research in 1998 on "bit gold," a precursor to bitcoin, drew attention for potentially being Nakamoto. He has denied it, and financial writer Dominic Frisby has said no proof exists connecting the two figures.

"The most convincing evidence pointed to a reclusive American man of Hungarian descent named Nick Szabo," journalist Nathaniel Popper wrote in The New York Times in 2015.

A Newsweek article in 2014 said that Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese American man living in California, was the elusive inventor of bitcoin. According to the article, he was trained as a physicist and worked on classified defense projects, but he, too, denied the claims.

After the article published, Nakamoto's online account revived itself after a five-year hiatus, stating: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."

Then, in December 2015, Wired posited that Australian researcher Craig Steven Wright "either invented bitcoin or is a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did."

The same day, Gizmodo published a story that said Wright, as well as computer scientist Dave Kleiman, together were involved in the invention of bitcoin.

Then, in May 2016, Wright announced in a blog post that he did create bitcoin, though he was met with prominent crypto figures who said it was false.

The list of other potential candidates, apart from Apple's Jobs, includes the government, various other computer scientists, and even Elon Musk, who denied he was Nakamoto in a 2017 tweet.

On Friday, bitcoin hovered around $27,937. It has surged 68% in 2023.

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Binance US crypto trivia on Shiba Inu (SHIB) creator draws intriguing answers

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A crypto trivia published on Twitter byBinance.USto test the knowledge of the community about the SHIB creator has drawn interesting answers.

Binance U.S. set out by giving a brief introduction about SHIB, which it says was created to be a community-driven project, and then proceeded to ask who the creator of SHIB was.

"The creators of SHIB set out to create a community-driven project that would focus on creating a decentralized ecosystem for trading and other financial activities," Binance.US wrote.

It then asked, "This Ethereum-based counterpart to Dogecoin's Scrypt-based algorithm was created by whom?"

A total of 55.3% of respondents went for the option Ryoshi. Interestingly, 19.6% and 19.5% of the respondents went for the options of Satoshi Nakamoto (the Bitcoin pseudonymous creator) and Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum creator), respectively.

A total of 5.6% of respondents answered that SHIB was created by Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson.

Similar to Satoshi Nakamoto, Shiba Inu's creator Ryoshi's identity has remained a mystery since the project's inception in August 2020. And just like the Bitcoin creator, Ryoshi exited social media in May 2022.

While many seek to unravel the identity of the SHIB creatorRyoshi, Shiba Inu lead Shytoshi Kusama hinted at what is most important.

"What's important is the concept of decentralization, myself and millions of others believe can change the world. I am Ryoshi, and so are you," Kusama stated.

The phrase "We are all Ryoshi" has found its place in the SHIB community, meaning that everyone has a stake in the project and a responsibility to take it forward.

At the time of writing, SHIB was marginally up in the last 24 hours at $0.00001096. In the last 24 hours, a meager 20,000 SHIB has been burned in a single transaction.

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Inthis video, Dr. Craig S. Wright and Prof. Latif Ladid talk about Integrating IPv6 and blockchain at the TCP/IP layer.

Being the president of the global IPv6 Forum, chairman of the IEEE COMSOC IoT subcommittee, and chairman of IEEE COMSOC 5G subcommittee, Prof. Ladid knows about this from inside out.

In this brief interview, Prof. Ladid didnt talk about the tech. The most important info from Latifs comments is the fact that in both India and the Philippines, the top people on the IPv6 Council are the same group of people who are pushing blockchain for enterprise.

He should know, because he is at the center of that world.

It is indeed a very good combination.

This isnt coincidental. In the long term, especially, such combination is going to become inevitable in most countries, because there is just such a perfect match between the two technologies.

It is only peoples ignorance that has prevented this from happening earlier.

To give you an idea of how shallow peoples understanding about this matter is, here is one of the comments someone made below the video about the interview: Wow what a load of nonsense. This is word drivel. Did Craig just discover IPv6? Its been around for ages.

It is hard to characterize how ignorant this comment is. IPv6 alone is not the subject thats been discussed here. Integrating IPv6 with blockchain at the TCP/IP layer is, and it is fundamentally different from slapping a blockchain app on top of the Internet at the application layer.

Satoshi himself has been working on the integration for two decades, and designed Bitcoin with a clear view of integrating with the IPv6. In the last seven years especially, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested and hundreds of researchers and developers have devoted the time onto this major tech revolution. If you havent heard about it, its probably because you have tuned your ears to the crypto worlds number go up noise exclusively.

Therefore, commenting that IPv6 is not new regarding this deep subject is like sneering at Vint Cerf or Tim Bernard-Lee by saying connecting two computers is not new when you heard them talking about the Internet in the 80s last century.

I dont know if the person who made the comment understands anything about IPv6, but it is clear that he has absolutely no inkling of what is happening at the TCP/IP layer where IPv6 and the Bitcoin blockchain can be, and is being, integrated. That in itself may be also understandable, because very few people have any understanding at this point. But this even after one has watched the video? A better occasion cannot be found where the suitable answer is, you dont know what youre talking about.

Ignorance is one thing, ignorance multiplied by arrogance is another.

Interestingly though, this is quite typical of the kind of rebuttals people throw at Craig Wright, a.k.a. Satoshi Nakamoto the creator of Bitcoin. But this is by a long shot not even the worst. There is a whole category of purely vile personal attacks that surpass comments like this. But that is a whole different layer of the story (for more on this, seeWhy is the real Satoshi so feared and hated?).

The killer app of IPv6

Bitcoin blockchain integrated with IPv6 at TCP/IP to support on-chain automated micropayment, payment streaming and payment channels is the killer app for IPv6.

Although the integration has vast significance to the entire Internet and the world, Satoshis direct goal has been delivering IP-to-IP micropayment over the Internet embedded at the TCP/IP level. The title of theBitcoin white paperreveals that.

Currently, IPv6 adoption indicates only the IPv6 address adoption, not the actual IPv6-driven applications. So seeing 60% IP addresses being IPv6 is like seeing most buggies having moved to a newly built freeway. It doesnt mean the real adoption has already happened and theres only 40% left to do. Quite the opposite is true.

When it comes to the real applications that are only possible with IPv6, the global adoption of IPv6 at this point is close to zero, and the potential room for growth unlimited.

The IPv6 integration with Bitcoin blockchain at TCP/IP layer is going to bring in a trueNew Internet, but the embedded micropayment is going to be the first killer app.

Dr. Craig Wright keynote speech: A Better Internet with IPv6 and BSV Blockchain

New to Bitcoin? Check out CoinGeeksBitcoin for Beginnerssection, the ultimate resource guide to learn more about Bitcoinas originally envisioned by Satoshi Nakamotoand blockchain.

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Roger Ver will not appeal his failed jurisdictional challenge in relation to Dr. Craig Wrights libel suit against him in Antigua, CoinGeek has learned.

In February, the High Court of Antigua and Barbudarejecteda jurisdictional challenge made byRoger Verin the Antiguan court. Ver had hoped to get the libel suit tossed on the basis that the court did not have jurisdiction to hear the claim, in particular, because neither party had sufficient connection to the country. The court disagreed, pointing to the fact that both parties were connected to the country and were highly involved in the digital asset industry there: Dr. Wright has advised the government of Antigua and Barbuda on digital asset legislation and has built important associations in the country, while Ver has a home on the beach there and has hosted several Bitcoin Cash meetups in the country as well.

It said that, as a result, Dr. Wright was entitled to defend his reputation in that jurisdiction. With Vers decision not to appeal that ruling, the case will head to a full trial to determine whether Ver has defamed Dr. Wright.

The courts affirmation of Dr. Wrights lawsuit marks the culmination of years of jurisdiction hopping by Ver, as he sought to avoid answering for Tweets he had made in which he called Dr. Craig Wright a fraud in his claim to theSatoshi Nakamoto name.

Dr. Wright brought a substantially similar action in the U.K. in 2019, which was rejected on the basis that the English courts were not the most appropriate venue to hear the dispute. This caused Ver to flee to Antigua, setting up shop in the Jolly Harbour neighborhood. Unfortunately for Ver, Dr. Wright has been a citizen of Antigua since 2016, meaning that Ver had inadvertently made Antigua the perfect venue to settle the dispute.

Its also the second time Dr. Wright has emerged victorious over Roger Ver in as many months. In February, the U.K. Court of Appeal ruled that Ver and a number of other blockchain developers must face trial over whether or not they owe legal duties to those using and relying on their blockchain protocols. It was a highly significant decision, and the trial has the potential to usher in an enormous shift in how the law deals treats ownership ofdigital assets.

As for Antigua, the scene is now set for the matter of Vers attacks on Dr. Wright to be resolved in a court of law, in the full light of the evidence. Given bloggerPeter McCormack has already been found liablefor defamation in the U.K. regarding substantially similar postings, the future does not bode well for Ver.

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