Charlie StrossMar 4, 2023

Anent nothing, I feel the need to repost this blog entry from 2018, titled The Nakamoto Variations:

"I am working (for reasons of my own) towards a comprehensive list of plausible technothriller plots from 2010 where the MacGuffin is named Satoshi Nakamoto …"

(I should have said "fukkit" and written that thriller IMMEDIATELY. It could have been in print by 2020 and earned out the advance before the cryptocurrency bubble burst. Alas, I was distracted by dying parents.)

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/the-nakamoto-variations.html

Show threadCharlie StrossMar 4, 2023

I particularly like variation 4(c):

4. Nakamoto is a time-travelling agent from our fully automated luxury gay space communism future, trying to expedite the crisis of capitalism. Nakamoto is being hunted by (insert rival conspiracy here).
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c) Variant: Satoshi Nakamoto is Sarah Connor. She is being hunted by the Terminator. Skynet needs her BtC wallet in order to pay the electricity bill.

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@cstross You surely meant Dave Lister and NORWEB?
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Show threadCharlie StrossMar 4, 2023
@s_mackattack Who/what?
Show threadEss Mecha-LobsterMar 4, 2023
@cstross https://youtu.be/elZfflKkfxM
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