On chamas, Satoshi Nakamoto and the next generation of Crypto innovators

https://medium.com/@chamapesa/on-chamas-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-next-generation-of-crypto-innovators-7b5a3f325f18

by mbgaxyz • 8 years ago

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mbgaxyz• 8 years ago

From Ian Grigg's latest blog post:

Such a chama was Satoshi Nakamoto. It’s apparent from what is now publicly known that the famous team worked in both excessive secrecy but very high trust. This handful of professionals from the Internet security field contributed jointly and separately to code, keys, design, vision, business, documentation, communications and opsec. As a common enterprise with a shared goal, enveloped in a dangerous environment, the Satoshi Nakamotii, various, faced more or less the same challenges that the members of any chama would face in Kibera: work in secret, protect the assets or be robbed and destroyed. Stay close to the vision, stay the long path, and in perhaps the ultimate irony, don’t allow personalities to be swayed by success.
You don’t have to believe me that Satoshi Nakamoto was a chama — and the surviving members may also be bemused and disagreeable. I care little for their bemusement or your disbelief, as being bemused and disagreeable is just evidence of a twitter handle or a reddit post and most people out there are incapable of dealing with that simple scientific logic: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

For reference, the same author posted in May 2016:

"SATOSHI IS DEAD - LONG LIVE SATOSHI - TEAM LEADER COMES OUT"

http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001593.html

On chamas, Satoshi Nakamoto and the next generation of Crypto innovators

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