
{"id":5035,"date":"2024-09-09T21:47:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T21:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2024-09-09T21:47:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T21:47:47","slug":"give-me-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=5035","title":{"rendered":"Give Me Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;The Privacy Issue&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/store.bitcoinmagazine.com\/collections\/magazines\/products\/bitcoin-magazine-annual-subscription\">Subscribe<\/a> to receive your copy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the Fourth Halving in the rearview mirror, it seems a perfect time to provide some on-record analysis of Bitcoin from the perspective of <em>Number <\/em>and <em>Time<\/em>, aka <strong>Crypto-K<\/strong>, which is the name for a methodology my friend and I have developed over the years in pursuit of a technical analysis of <strong>synchronicity <\/strong>\u2014 the sense that our reality is arranged according to some as yet undefined <em>acausal ordering principle<\/em>. The <strong>K <\/strong>stands for <strong>Kubrick<\/strong>, as in Stanley Kubrick, director of <em>2001: A Space Odyssey <\/em>and <em>The Shining<\/em>, whose life and mysterious works of cinematic art are powerful strange attractors for synchronicity and high strangeness. It is the Monolith around which our methodology \u2014 and seemingly everything else \u2014 was built.<\/p>\n<p>Most reading this know that Bitcoin is an <em>all-encompassing <\/em>subject \u2014 a rabbit hole. Well, the same goes for Crypto-K, which in some respects is a study of <em>everything<\/em>, or <em>how everything connects<\/em>. And that everything includes Bitcoin. So you\u2019re about to find out what happens when one rabbit hole intersects with another.<\/p>\n<p><em>How is Bitcoin related to Crypto-K?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Both are about <strong>Time<\/strong>, or the <em>problem <\/em>with it. Crypto-K is about asking, \u201cWhat is the meaning of <strong>Time\u2019s Pace?<\/strong>\u201d<strong> <\/strong>while Bitcoin is a new spin on the old saying \u201c<strong>Time is Money<\/strong>\u201d<strong>. <\/strong>How do we protect our MONEY from <em>temporal entropy<\/em>? On the other hand, how do we protect our TIME from <em>monetary entropy<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>All of these concerns fall under the astro-alchemical rubric of <strong>Saturn, <\/strong>the seventh classical planet. The planet of laws, boundaries, inheritance, burdens: \u201c<em>the labor of existence<\/em>, <em>the harvest of time<\/em>\u201d<em> <\/em>(Tarnas). Here\u2019s astrologer John Hughes, writing about Saturn: \u201c<em>It is the planet of real worth, as apart from show and make-believe, and gives to all things their permanent and lasting qualities. Its action is slow, thorough and inevitable.<\/em>\u201d This sounds a lot like the BTC timechain: slow, thorough, and inevitable, defined by its permanence and lasting qualities. Real worth \u2014 the labor of existence, the harvest of time, or, in other words, <strong><em>proof of work.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Yes, Satoshi, Bitcoin is <\/em><strong><em>Saturnine, <\/em><\/strong><em>all right. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Saturn has a peculiar history when viewed through the lens of fringe theory. In 1980 David Talbott published a book called <em>The Saturn Myth <\/em>which posited the idea that long ago a previous solar system arrangement had Saturn as the Earth\u2019s primary star, before some terrible calamity occurred that threw everything out of whack. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe Talbott\u2019s theory is whack, but there\u2019s also Richard Hoagland (the \u201cFace on Mars\u201d guy), who has presented theories about Saturn, particularly its moon <strong>Iapetus<\/strong>, which he speculated might be an artificial body inhabited by extraterrestrials. It\u2019s possible he regurgitated this from Arthur C. Clarke in the novelized version of <em>2001: A Space Odyssey, <\/em>where in that book <em>the climactic Monolith is found buried on Iapetus <\/em>(not floating by Jupiter as in the film). But forget all that: Even the <em>straight <\/em>astronomers and scientists, for whom microbes in the dirt would be tremendously exciting, seem to think that Saturn (or rather, one of its moons) is the place to look when it comes to possible <em>life <\/em>within our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that your reality tunnel doesn\u2019t matter: Saturn tends to dominate the frame. As the seventh and slowest-moving classical planet, it came to represent the outer limits of material reality itself. As such it was the <em>secret <\/em>destination of Kubrick\u2019s <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>. The story goes that the special effects team had trouble creating a realistic Saturn, so they pivoted to Jupiter instead. It\u2019s also the secret meaning of the title of Kubrick\u2019s follow-up, <strong><em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em><\/strong>. The traditional read on that title is negative, meaning what a human being would become if he lost the ability to <em>choose <\/em>good over evil \u2014 something organic turned false and machine-like, a clockwork orange. It\u2019s a hypothetical state of the human being denigrated under 21st-century pharmacracy. Bitcoin flips this script: What if something which began as a meaningless Saturnine <em>process <\/em>grew into a truth-affirming juggernaut imbued with analog richness but beyond the reach of any seething sovereign?<\/p>\n<p>Forget \u201cA\u201d. Bitcoin is the clockwork orange. <\/p>\n<p>But why orange?<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin became the \u201corange coin\u201d when the logo was finalized by anonymous BTC-talk user \u201cbitboy\u201d on <strong>11<\/strong>\/<strong>1<\/strong>\/<strong>10<\/strong>, or the day after the second anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s Bitcoin white paper. He had taken Satoshi\u2019s original idea and cleaned it up, added a 14% twist, and decided to make the whole thing orange. Everyone agreed it was a perfect choice and it has remained in place ever since. The perfect choice of logo met with a perfect <em>release date <\/em>too, because that date can be reduced to <strong>11110<\/strong>, as in the 1963 executive order issued by President Kennedy to issue silver certificates from the Treasury (occasionally cited by anti-Fed types as the reason JFK was assassinated). Here\u2019s what we call a good old-fashioned <strong><em>sync<\/em><\/strong><em>. <\/em>It\u2019s possible that bitboy (whoever he was) released the logo on this day intentionally because he recognized the historical <em>pun <\/em>it would make, but more likely it just kind of happened that way<em> <\/em>as a grand micro-expression of that general <em>acausal ordering principle <\/em>mentioned above. It has a pointed sense of humor at times.<\/p>\n<p>Satoshi Nakamoto published the white paper on 10\/31\/2008 \u2014 in other words on Halloween. It\u2019s possible that bitboy had Halloween on his mind when he decided on <strong>orange <\/strong>for the logo and released it two years later. Satoshi\u2019s original logo was <em>gold<\/em>, but that crystallized into orange, perhaps as a way to give Bitcoin its own identity apart from the \u201cshiny rock\u201d. But it was an appropriate move to make from an <em>alchemical <\/em>perspective. In an essay from <em>The Sync Book Vol. 2 <\/em>called \u201cMoon in the Middle\u201d, writer Mark LeClair offers a gnostic interpretation of reality (and the color orange) based on a run of <strong>7<\/strong>s: the <strong>7 <\/strong>tones of the diatonic scale, the <strong>7 <\/strong>days of the Gregorian week, and the <strong>7 <\/strong>colors of the rainbow, which all come together to communicate the essential truth of Creation: The Moon is actually the center of everything, the crucified Christ holding reality together. According to LeClair, each day of the week and color correspond to a different planet and stage of the gnostic creation myth. The story begins with the color red and Venus on Friday, then continues to Saturday and Saturn, and of course, the next color on the spectrum, orange. \u201c<em>The color orange is associated with deceit and mistrust, pridefulness and passive assertiveness\u2014a tiger, brimming with orange rage, striped and softly panting, glowering, lurking in the thickness of ferns, ready to pounce and consume the soul from the inside out. <\/em><strong><em>The color of gold is also a function of orange, and not of yellow as is the common misconception<\/em><\/strong><em>. Gold is the achievement of royalty and godhead through the act of alchemy, which is a process of <\/em><strong><em>Saturn<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Ideal Money, true digital gold, the \u201corange coin\u201d <em>is <\/em>an achievement in alchemy. <em>The <\/em>crowning achievement, perhaps, of <em>\u201cCronos, the designer of Time, the Clockwork Orange\u2026 he is tough and resourceful, smart, too dangerous to dismiss as a mere force of blunt or banal evil\u2026 Feed him. Give the devil his due. Milk and cookies on the counter should do the trick.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This imposition to feed the beast might not be unlike the way Bitcoin must be \u201cfed\u201d with more and more electricity to power the global \u201cmacro-chip\u201d. Not to compare Bitcoin to the devil or anything, but Satoshi did publish the white paper on All Hallow\u2019s Eve \u2014 and wouldn\u2019t you know it, the BTC timechain had been cranking away for exactly <strong>666 <\/strong>days on Halloween 2010, aka the day before the famous <em>orange <\/em>logo was published.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s another, more spectacular way of connecting Bitcoin to <strong>666 <\/strong>with the calendar. Satoshi gave the public a birth date for himself when he registered with the P2P Foundation: <strong>4\/5\/1975<\/strong>, also known as the <strong>42nd <\/strong>anniversary of FDR\u2019s EO6102 that unilaterally confiscated U.S. citizen\u2019s private gold holdings. In the late 1980s, there was an issue of <em>The Economist <\/em>featuring the headline, \u201cGet ready for a world currency\u201d backed by a \u201cGolden Eagle\u201d atop a pile of flaming fiat money (an image much loved by conspiracy theorists over the years). The cover date for this issue was <strong>1\/9\/1988<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This means that Satoshi Nakamoto was exactly <strong>666 <\/strong>weeks old on the day of <em>The Economist<\/em>\u2019s \u201cworld currency\u201d issue. The magazine came well before Bitcoin ever existed. Did Satoshi know <em>this <\/em>when he \u201cchose\u201d his birth date?<\/p>\n<p>Does it seem a little <em>threatening <\/em>to you? Consider the following facts. There are 7 days in one week. This means that in 6 weeks there are <strong>42 <\/strong>days. This means that in <strong>666 <\/strong>weeks there are <strong>42<\/strong>\u00d7<strong>111 <\/strong>days. Now, <strong>666 <\/strong>is supposed to be a bad number right? But <strong>42 <\/strong>is kind of a funny, happy number, right? So don\u2019t think of Satoshi being <strong>666 <\/strong>weeks old on the day of <em>The Economist<\/em>\u2019s world currency issue, but instead that he was <strong>4,242 + 420 <\/strong>days old! See, The Book of Revelation designates <strong>666 <\/strong>as the \u201cnumber of the Beast\u201d. But notice how something as ordinary as the <em>clockface <\/em>secretly communicates it right in front of you all the time: three overlapping hands \u2014 <strong>60 <\/strong>seconds, <strong>60 <\/strong>minutes, 24 (<strong>6<\/strong>) hours. The number of the Beast is the number of the <em>Clock. <\/em><strong>666 <\/strong>is the Fourth Seal of Crypto-K. The Beast is time, ruled by <strong>Saturn<\/strong>. Nothing to be afraid of, though, especially now that we have Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>In pursuit of the analysis of synchronicity, we employ what we call the <em>parent-thesis, <\/em>a dialectical configuration where two points in time (\u201cparents\u201d) generate a third (the \u201cchild\u201d) via the exact midpoint between them. Whether it be the midpoint of a person\u2019s life\u2019s or the midpoint between two deaths or two movie releases, it creates a <em>static synchronicity <\/em>that can be studied and, perhaps, classified. In the case of the birth of Satoshi Nakamoto and the cover date of <em>The Economist <\/em>world currency issue, the two dates <strong>666 <\/strong>weeks apart generate a midpoint 333 weeks either way of 8\/22\/1981 \u2014 and this happens to be the day that NASA\u2019s Voyager 2 probe made its approach to Iapetus, kicking off its encounter with Saturn.<strong> <\/strong>This fly-by first clued astronomers into the existence of the equatorial ridge on Iapetus, which now ranks as the third tallest mountain structure in the entire solar system.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with the theme, 8\/22\/1981 also saw the release of a horror B movie called <em>Evilspeak <\/em>in which Ron Howard\u2019s brother Clint Howard plays a nerd named Stanley Coopersmith (= <strong>237, <\/strong>standard gematria), who stumbles onto the laboratory of a sixteenth-century warlock in the basement of his military academy, then uses his computer skills to summon the Devil in order to enact revenge on the kids who bully him. The opening scene has the bullies calling him \u201cStanley Cooper<em>dick<\/em>\u201d, making the Stanley Kubrick comparisons even more obvious. Here we have a <em>Stanley <\/em>using computer technology to interface with Satan (a kind of artificial intelligence<em>)<\/em>, and commandeering it to do his bidding \u2014 in a film released on the day Voyager 2 begins its encounter with <strong>Saturn <\/strong>and photographs the moon <em>Iapetus <\/em>(we\u2019re told) \u2014 and on the mid-point of the <strong>666 <\/strong>weeks between Satoshi\u2019s birthday and <em>The Economist<\/em>\u2019s \u201cget ready for a world currency\u201d issue. As the \u201cclockwork orange\u201d, Bitcoin could be seen metaphorically as a new form of artificial life, a new element \u201cconjured\u201d with computers \u2014 a decentralized <em>phoenix <\/em>rising from the ashes of centralization: <em>Satoshi Nakamoto<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in Douglas Adams\u2019 <em>Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy <\/em>that a powerful artificial intelligence in the future is built to answer the question of \u201clife, the universe, and everything\u201d, and comes back after millions of years of processing with the answer <strong>42 <\/strong>\u2014 which we call the First Seal of Crypto-K. Satoshi loved <strong>42 <\/strong>and originally wanted the total supply of Bitcoin to be <strong>42 <\/strong>million, but cut it to 21 for economic reasons \u2014 then there\u2019s the halving every 210,000 blocks (that\u2019s two halvings per <strong>42<\/strong>0,000 blocks). Whether he meant to or not, Satoshi first announced his creation to the P2P Foundation forum on the <strong>42nd <\/strong>day of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s also the difficulty adjustment \u2014 which some say is Satoshi\u2019s stroke of genius \u2014 every 2,016 blocks. Satoshi could have made the adjustment every 2,100 blocks, mirroring the supply cap and halving schedule. Instead, he chose 2,016, a number that was <strong>42 <\/strong>+ <strong>42 <\/strong>less than 2,100. There is a mundane explanation for this and then there are several more exciting explanations for this. Was it because 2016 is 6102 \u2014 the number of FDR\u2019s gold confiscation order, issued <strong>42 <\/strong>years before Satoshi\u2019s birthday \u2014 backward? It could have been because 2016 reduces to 216 which is <strong>6 <\/strong>x <strong>6 <\/strong>x <strong>6 <\/strong>and kabbalistically significant. Or it might simply have been because this made for a difficulty adjustment every 14 days instead of every 14.58333 days. It\u2019s all of the above: Satoshi was carefully synchronizing his creation with <em>the clock <\/em>and <em>the calendar<\/em>, i.e., with the movement of the heavens. Thus it naturally fell into the prescribed order of <em>time\u2019s pace<\/em>, which it is the purview of Crypto-K to analyze and unwind.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there\u2019s always another sync, and always another opportunity to misinterpret the sync as evidence of <em>conspiracy. <\/em>Because events occurred in the <em>year <\/em>2016 that are indelibly stitched into the timechain of history and retroactively make Satoshi\u2019s choice somewhat conspicuous. Chiefly, it\u2019s 11\/9\/2016, the election of Donald Trump \u2014 the <em>orange man \u2014 <\/em>for U.S. President. But on the inverse date, 9\/11\/2016, Hillary Clinton appeared to collapse and was tossed like a side of beef into a van that then sped away. It was interpreted by some at the time to have been the effects wrought by 4chan autists and meme-pirates unintentionally invoking an ancient Egyptian frog deity called \u201cKek\u201d. This then sparked an influential online movement with a food-related name we won\u2019t even mention that subsequently morphed into (or was co-opted by) the Q operation that officially began a year later. Did Satoshi have foreknowledge of the year in which The Plan\u2122 was to begin and encode it into Bitcoin? Probably not, but it was encoded there nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Another more salient example of \u201c2016\u201d encoding has to do with the late JFK Jr., who died in a plane crash with his wife on 7\/16\/1999 \u2014 the day on which Stanley Kubrick\u2019s posthumous film <em>Eyes Wide Shut <\/em>was contractually obligated to be released. JFK Jr.\u2019s death figures heavily into the lore of some Q-adjacent conspiracy merchants, who have lately deployed the narrative that, with his friend Donald Trump\u2019s help, JFK Jr. actually faked his death in 1999 and is set to return when the time is right. Oh boy, where have we ever heard <em>that <\/em>one before? But that\u2019s not to say there isn\u2019t legit weirdness there, because here\u2019s my point: John-John was born on 11\/25\/1960 and died on 7\/16\/1999, which means that his entire life lasted for exactly <strong>2,016 <\/strong>weeks.<\/p>\n<p>If you make John-John\u2019s 2,016-week lifespan a <em>parent-thesis <\/em>and <em>divide it <\/em>to find the midpoint, exactly 1,008 weeks into his life was 3\/21\/1980, the day the TV show <em>Dallas <\/em>aired its season 3 finale, \u201cA House Divided\u201d, which featured the cliff-hanger death by gunshot of the show\u2019s star J.R. Ewing \u2014 one of the most iconic moments in TV history. \u201cWho shot JR on <em>Dallas?\u201d <\/em>became the question on TV in 1980 in the way that \u201cWho shot JFK in Dallas?\u201d became the question of 1963 \u2014 and JFK Jr.\u2019s death occurred such that this episode \u2014 a cheeky re-enactment of the Father\u2019s death \u2014 aired on the midpoint of the life of the Son.<\/p>\n<p>*If* JFK Jr. faked his death, he apparently did so in such a way that his official fake lifespan silently communicated the future year in which his friend would be elected president, and also pointed to a TV episode referencing his Father\u2019s death. Why the hell would anyone do that, though? Forget the clickbait conspiracy slop. JFK Jr. is <em>dead as a doornail<\/em>,<em> <\/em>and more and more it feels like <strong>nobody is choosing to do any of this stuff consciously<\/strong>. Again, we are looking at the <em>acausal ordering principle <\/em>that Carl Gustav Jung discussed in his book <em>Synchronicity <\/em>\u2014 or something along the lines of VALIS, put forth by Philip K. Dick in the wake of his revelatory experiences\/temporal lobe seizure which he codenamed <strong>2-3-74. <\/strong>Apparently, different people and events are or can be products of the same underlying operating principle, i.e., VALIS, the <em>salvific <\/em>entity that is here transforming our world and using us as its implements in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Orange man, meet orange coin. Is it a match made in heaven? Not so far, though recently the man has softened his tune on the coin after basically denouncing it during his presidency. Here\u2019s what you didn\u2019t know: The orange man\u2019s presidency was <em>inaugurated <\/em>on 1\/20\/2017, which was exactly <strong>420 <\/strong>weeks after the orange coin was <em>inaugurated <\/em>in the Genesis block on 1\/3\/2009. It would seem that there might be something deeper connecting these two than just the <em>color \u2014 <\/em>after all, Trump isn\u2019t <em>really <\/em>orange just like Bitcoin isn\u2019t <em>really<\/em> orange either. In both cases, it\u2019s the <em>brand<\/em>. Trump\u2019s critics (and his fans) have often remarked how he could shoot someone in broad daylight and get away with it \u2014 a hyperbole to emphasize how he resists or repels criticism. In other words, he can survive <em>anything,<\/em> and can usually spin any negative energy sent his way into a positive outcome. It\u2019s not unlike the way Bitcoiners often say that \u201c<em>everything is good for Bitcoin<\/em>\u201d. It\u2019s that everlasting Saturnine quality behind both phenomena \u2014 or maybe it is just something about the color orange.<\/p>\n<p>If you count the weeks instead from the Bitcoin white paper to Trump\u2019s inauguration it\u2019s 429, which is <strong>666 &#8211; 237<\/strong>. This means that <strong>237 <\/strong>weeks before the white paper was <strong>666 <\/strong>weeks before the Trump inauguration, and likewise <strong>666 <\/strong>weeks after the white paper was <strong>237 <\/strong>weeks after Trump\u2019s inauguration. Did Satoshi plan <em>that? <\/em>Perhaps he did, or perhaps that is only a side-effect of some deeper process unplanned by anyone, what you might call a <em>decentralized <\/em>signal hidden in the noise.<\/p>\n<p>There are more calendar connections between orange man and orange coin. For instance, Satoshi\u2019s \u201cbirthday\u201d on 4\/5\/1975 was the day after 4\/4\/1975, when Donald Trump became <strong>1,503 <\/strong>weeks old on the same day Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded their company <em>Microsoft<\/em>. <strong>153 <\/strong>is the Second Seal of Crypto-K, and one of the most important and mysterious numbers in existence all on its own. Coincidentally or not, this particular span of time \u2014 <strong>1,503 <\/strong>weeks \u2014 lines up closely with what\u2019s known to astrologers as the <strong>Saturn Return<\/strong>, when the planet makes a full orbit and returns to where it was in the sky at birth. This will often coincide with a person\u2019s coming into adulthood in one form or another (a phenomenon known to most people as turning 30). During this period of his life, Donald Trump was embroiled with his father in a lawsuit for civil rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Heath <em>Ledger<\/em> who died on 1\/22\/2008, was born four years after Microsoft (on 4\/4\/1979), which means <em>he <\/em>was exactly <strong>1,503 <\/strong>weeks old when he died.<\/p>\n<p>For Trump it was the full legal weight of <em>Uncle <\/em><strong><em>Sam <\/em><\/strong>that came down on his head <em>\u2014 <\/em>in Ledger\u2019s case, Saturn came home to roost in the form of <em>death <\/em>by an accidental overdose (or so we are told). According to NASA the actual length of Saturn\u2019s orbit in days is 10,756. The day on which Heath Ledger would have been 10,756 days old was 9\/14\/2008, aka the <strong>237<\/strong>th day after he died! Let it be known then that this timespan we\u2019re highlighting \u2014 <strong>1,503 <\/strong>weeks \u2014 is actually <strong>237 <\/strong>days shy of a full orbit of Saturn! <strong>237 <\/strong>is the Third Seal of Crypto-K, spotlighted by Stanley Kubrick in <em>The Shining <\/em>and, together with <strong>153<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>they solder the orange man\u2019s Saturn Return to the birth of orange coin creator <em>Sat<\/em>oshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n<p>So Satoshi Nakamoto was \u201cborn\u201d the day after Donald Trump turned <strong>1,503 <\/strong>weeks old (the same day Microsoft was \u201cborn\u201d), <strong>42 <\/strong>years after EO6102 \u2014 and the Bitcoin Genesis block was mined <strong>420 <\/strong>weeks before Trump took the oath of office. <\/p>\n<p>Then Satoshi registered the website for his incoming digital ledger on 8\/18\/2008, exactly 210 days after the death of Heath Ledger. This was precisely <strong>1,053 <\/strong>weeks after Donald Trump turned <strong>42<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s first Monday in office as President \u2014 1\/23\/2017 \u2014 was also what we call his <strong>K-Day<\/strong>, or the same age Stanley Kubrick was when he died. The Bitcoin white paper was published 3,006 or <strong>1,503 + 1,503 <\/strong>days before Trump\u2019s <strong>K-Day<\/strong>. What makes this truly remarkable is the <em>midpoint<\/em>: 12\/12\/2012, the day that someone using the name Nicholas von Saberhagen published the white paper for what would eventually become the privacy-focused cryptocurrency <em>Monero. <\/em>Some have speculated that there might be a connection between Satoshi and Saberhagen (SN\/NS). This information was reported by \u201cMoneroOutreach\u201d in what appears to have been an April Fool\u2019s joke on 4\/1\/2020. A <em>fact <\/em>is that Satoshi made his final forum post on 12\/12\/2010, meaning Saberhagen published the CryptoNote white paper on a two-year \u201cdelta\u201d with Satoshi\u2019s final message, not unlike how the orange logo was published only hours after the two-year \u201cdelta\u201d of the Satoshi white paper.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has read <em>Infinite Jest <\/em>knows that April Fool\u2019s day can carry serious undertones (especially in spycraft). It would be a mistake to discount this report as totally worthless. The tone seems off somehow, like it\u2019s a joke being told by someone who knows it\u2019s <em>not <\/em>a joke, but needs it to seem like it is, while also communicating (with no hands) the underlying truth \u2014 that Satoshi and Saberhagen <em>were <\/em>one and the same.<\/p>\n<p>This deliberately paced article mentions three specific dates \u2014 two we already know from the first paragraph, and then in the fourth paragraph, \u201cAugust 13, 2010\u201d, the day of a forum post by Satoshi first referencing the privacy tech that would eventually be implemented into Monero. The magic of this day becomes apparent when you check it against the BTC Genesis block \u2014 <strong>42 + 42 <\/strong>weeks apart, meaning it\u2019s also in a <strong>42-<\/strong>week line-up with the Trump inauguration 336<em> <\/em>weeks ahead (aka <strong>77 <\/strong>months, <strong>7 <\/strong>days!), which is a <em>remarkable <\/em>parallel with Bitcoin\u2019s difficulty adjustment every 336 <em>hours<\/em>. In other words Satoshi\u2019s first mention of ring signatures came <strong>420 <\/strong>&#8211; <strong>42 <\/strong>&#8211; <strong>42 <\/strong>weeks before the Trump inauguration, similar to the difficulty adjustment every 2,100 &#8211; <strong>42 <\/strong>&#8211; <strong>42 <\/strong>blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The report from MoneroOutreach on 4\/1\/2020 was published exactly <strong>20 <\/strong>days, <strong>3 <\/strong>months, and <strong>7 <\/strong>years after the Saberhagen white paper \u2014 but further fuel for the conspiratorial fire is that it was also day <strong>1,776 <\/strong>after the death of legendary mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. and his wife Alicia in a car crash on the New Jersey turnpike on 5\/23\/2015. John Nash \u2014 who you might remember as being played by Russell Crowe in <em>A Beautiful Mind <\/em>\u2014 remains one of the more intriguing under-the-radar candidates for the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto due to his singular genius in all the requisite fields. Forgetting the Oscar-winning cartoon for a moment, the real John Nash was a <em>visionary-grade <\/em>cryptologist, mathematician, and game theorist who harbored a lifelong interest in applied economics (not to mention programming and the internet). Late in his life (in the early 2000s) he lectured and wrote on the subject of <em>Ideal Money<\/em>, and was publicly concerned with countering the mounting effects of decades of inflationary Keynesian monetary policy. We can theoretically surmise that the people in charge of implementing Nash\u2019s ideas from above wouldn\u2019t have been too keen on the concept of ideal money (Bitcoin). In order for it to work it would anyway have had to be released \u201cin a roundabout way\u201d (as Hayek suggested). So was born Satoshi Nakamoto, an alter-ego for a man already haunted by voices \u2014 and so <em>went <\/em>he, out of the window of his taxi, once his managers finally realized what he had done. That\u2019s if you buy the theory, at least.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s highly speculative conjecture backed mostly by <em>synchronistic <\/em>evidence, but hear it out anyway. In Clint Howard\u2019s brother Ron Howard\u2019s 2001 film <em>A Beautiful Mind<\/em>, John Nash was played by Russell Crowe, while his wife Alicia (in real life an honored native citizen of <strong>El Salvador<\/strong>, funnily enough) was played by Jennifer Connelly. In the film we see Connelly\/Alicia as a devoted wife standing by her husband as he wrestles with his \u201cdemons\u201d while carrying out work he believes he has been singled out to perform by a \u2018higher authority\u2019. That film released in December 2001 \u2014 but 13 years later the <em>acausal ordering principle <\/em>struck once more when Crowe and Connelly were cast as husband and wife <em>again, <\/em>thi<em>s <\/em>time in Darren Aronofsky\u2019s 2014 Biblical epic <em>Noah, <\/em>where we again<em> <\/em>see Connelly as a devoted wife who stands by her whacko husband as he wrestles with <em>his<\/em> demons and carries out work he believes he has been singled out to perform by a higher authority. Noah and Nash are a lot alike, are they not?<\/p>\n<p>What work was that again? Oh yes, building the <strong>Ark<\/strong>, an engineering project from God to allow humanity and the animals to endure the incoming deluge. Any Bitcoiner worth their salt has already understood the parallel. The orange coin has been referred to as a financial<em> Noah\u2019s Ark <\/em>on more than one occasion, seemingly engineered (by God, of course) to help humanity stave off an inflationary financial apocalypse, and Nash has emerged (independently) as one candidate for the anonymous builder of that financial Ark. It\u2019s a theory bolstered synchronistically by how the same actors that played Nash and his wife in a Hollywood film, later played Noah and his wife in a Hollywood film about building the Biblical Ark! Again the dichotomy presents itself: Does this represent intentional encoding of media by Hollywood filmmakers and producers, or is it an example of Jung\u2019s <em>acausal ordering principle<\/em>, where humans <em>can\u2019t help but <\/em>make certain decisions, telling on ourselves over and over? Good luck getting a consensus on that question.<\/p>\n<p>So, again, the 4\/1\/2020 report on the Satoshi\/Saberhagen matter was published <strong>1,776 <\/strong>days after John Nash and his wife died on 5\/23\/2015. If there\u2019s anything to compare this to it\u2019s that likewise, Queen Elizabeth\u2019s death on 9\/8\/2022 arrived <strong>1,776 <\/strong>days after the inaugural Q drop. <strong>1776 <\/strong>was spotlighted by the founding of the USA that year and is the Fifth Seal of Crypto-K, so these are syncs, to be sure, but it\u2019s possible \u2014 if however <em>infinitesimally <\/em>\u2014 that <em>all <\/em>of these items are related on a material level. John Nash remains one of the most convincing candidates for the mantle of Satoshi (even without the Hollywood casting magic) and this April Fool\u2019s dispatch was <em>suspiciously <\/em>well-timed against his death, which, at this point, might as well be deemed an <em>assassination<\/em>. It feels like the universe has a secret to tell us, and is using <em>us <\/em>as its implements to do so.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another temporal <em>tell <\/em>tying Nash\u2019s possible <em>assassination <\/em>on 5\/23\/2015 to Bitcoin: It happened exactly 333 weeks after the Genesis block. In other words, Nash died when the Bitcoin timechain was <em>half <\/em>of <strong>666 <\/strong>weeks old. If Nash <em>was <\/em>assassinated for his secret work on Bitcoin, the people who did it would probably go about <em>timing it perfectly <\/em>according to their secret midnight rituals, and this might be evidence of that \u2014 they love their 3s. Or it could be evidence of something else.<\/p>\n<p>Nash died 333 weeks after the Genesis block \u2014 so we ask what happened 333 weeks <em>before <\/em>the Genesis block, or <strong>666 <\/strong>weeks before Nash died? That day is 8\/17\/2002, a Saturday. The synchronicity that must be remarked on here is how that weekend (Friday, or the <em>beginning <\/em>of that week, as Mark LeClair would have us believe) a movie was released starring Eddie Murphy called <strong><em>The Adventures of Pluto Nash. <\/em><\/strong>Taking place on the <em>Moon <\/em>in the year 2087, Murphy plays Pluto Nash, an ex-con trying to run a successful lunar nightclub all while evading the lunar mafia. Despite the decent cast, the film was a horrendous bomb, but the universe often uses <em>bombs <\/em>like these to conceal its deeper truths. Pluto represents Hades, or death itself, so the combination of Pluto and Nash in the title character of a film (in which Nash is being hunted by the \u201cMafia\u201d who wish to kill him) released <strong>666 <\/strong>weeks before the car crash that killed John Nash and his wife \u2014 with the BTC <em>Genesis <\/em>block at the midpoint. It more than bears mentioning. It\u2019s downright freaky.<\/p>\n<p>Another detail about John Nash that adheres to the architecture of Crypto-K is that he was born in the same year as Stanley Kubrick \u2014 1928. In fact, Nash\u2019s birthday 6\/13\/1928 and Kubrick\u2019s birthday 7\/26\/1928 together <em>bracket <\/em>a span of only <strong>42 <\/strong>days. <em>The Shining <\/em>received wide release on 6\/13\/1980, but it premiered three weeks earlier on 5\/23\/1980, which means that <em>The Shining <\/em>released on John Nash\u2019s 52nd birthday, while Nash and his wife were car-crashed 35 years after <em>The Shining <\/em>premiered \u2014 35 years being exactly <strong>420 <\/strong>months, and 52 years being <strong>666 &#8211; 42 <\/strong>months. In other words, when a person turns 52, they are one \u201creign of the Beast\u201d (Rev 13:5) away from <strong>666 <\/strong>months old.<\/p>\n<p>The exact midpoint of John Nash\u2019s life hit on <strong>12\/3\/71<\/strong>. See it? The <strong>237<\/strong>? Since we\u2019re comparing Nash to Kubrick, we can provide the ready-made knowledge that Kubrick\u2019s life midpoint arrived on 11\/15\/1963 \u2014 one week before the JFK assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to guess how much time passed from Stanley Kubrick\u2019s midpoint to John Nash\u2019s midpoint?<\/p>\n<p>Exactly <strong>420 <\/strong>weeks. The same length of time as from the Genesis block to the inauguration of Donald Trump! What\u2019s more, the day of Nash\u2019s midpoint \u2014 <strong>12\/3\/71 <\/strong>\u2014 was the same day the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki premiered his <em>De Natura Sonoris No. 2<\/em>, music which would later be incorporated by Stanley Kubrick into <em>The Shining<\/em>! Could this get any more convoluted? Of course, it\u2019s that symmetry thing again, drawing what we call a <em>parent-thesis<\/em>: Nash\u2019s midpoint arrived <strong>420 <\/strong>weeks after Kubrick\u2019s midpoint, so what happened <strong>420 <\/strong>weeks <em>before <\/em>Kubrick\u2019s midpoint? You\u2019ll never guess, so it\u2019s 10\/28\/1955, <em>the birthday of Bill Gates<\/em>, who has already been mentioned in connection with the founding of <em>Microsoft <\/em>the day before Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s \u201cbirthday!\u201d Small world, hey?<\/p>\n<p>In <em>A Beautiful Mind<\/em>,<em> <\/em>Jennifer Connelly plays a beleaguered wife who, in trying to protect her child, stumbles onto her crazy husband\u2019s papers which prove that he\u2019s schizophrenic. That\u2019s a virtual mirror to <em>The Shining <\/em>where Shelley Duvall plays a beleaguered wife who, in trying to protect <em>her<\/em> child, stumbles onto her husband\u2019s private papers which prove that he\u2019s insane. According to Mark LeClair again, Jack Torrance represents <strong>Saturn<\/strong>, the demiurge, the \u201cmaster of time\u201d, an archetype Kubrick also applied to <em>himself <\/em>via the backstage documentary shot by his daughter Vivian Kubrick, where we see them dressing alike, dramatically typing away at a <em>typewriter, <\/em>and even hassling \u201cWendy\u201d \u2014 aka Shelley Duvall. Kubrick wanted us to see him squarely equating himself with the character of Jack Torrance \u2014 i.e., <strong>Saturn<\/strong>. So it would seem that in the year 2001 the character of John Nash in <em>A Beautiful Mind <\/em>also was overlapped by the same Saturnine trope as Jack and Kubrick in <em>The Shining<\/em> <em>\u2014<\/em> and then it happened again with Noah in <em>Noah<\/em>! It\u2019s almost like the universe (or VALIS) was trying to tell us something, and <em>this is how it speaks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Nash\u2019s birth brackets <strong>42 <\/strong>days with Kubrick\u2019s birth, and the midpoint of Nash\u2019s life on <strong>12\/3\/71 <\/strong>came <strong>420 <\/strong>weeks after Kubrick\u2019s life\u2019s midpoint.<\/p>\n<p>So what about the <em>end <\/em>of their lives?<\/p>\n<p>If you go look it up, you\u2019ll find that Nash died 846 weeks after Kubrick, a figure which amounts to <strong>420 <\/strong>+ <strong>420 <\/strong>weeks, plus <strong>42 <\/strong>days.<\/p>\n<p>Who exactly is doing all this, and why?<\/p>\n<p>One person who <em>was <\/em>verifiably involved in the beginnings of Bitcoin was of course Hal Finney, who was right there to help Satoshi along when the first BTC client launched on 1\/9\/09, and he was there to receive the first BTC transaction from Satoshi in block 170 on 1\/11\/09 \u2014 which, by the way, occurred exactly <strong>153 + 153 + 153 <\/strong>weeks before the first post from <em>another <\/em>anonymous internet entity, <strong>Q <\/strong>(the 17th letter), on 10\/28\/2017.<\/p>\n<p>Hal Finney\u2019s birth on 5\/4\/1956 means that on the day of the Bitcoin Genesis block, he was <strong>19,237 <\/strong>days old. Here we have the Third Seal, <strong>237, <\/strong>combined with what we call the \u201cRuler\u201d \u2014 <strong>19<\/strong>. One property of <strong>19 <\/strong>that remains relevant is how it alphanumerically translates to <strong>AI<\/strong>, the abbreviation for artificial intelligence, now positioned as the existential threat of our time. Some Bitcoiners have wildly claimed that BTC represents the counterbalancing force required by nature for humanity to resist AI\u2019s eventual total liquid control of all centralized systems, though none of them have been clear on the specifics of how that might work. But in this regard \u2014 <em>BTC vs. AI <\/em>\u2014 the name \u201cHal Finney\u201d carries certain connotations, because \u201cHal\u201d is the name of Kubrick\u2019s malevolent AI in <em>2001: A Space Odyssey: <\/em>HAL 9000. \u201cFinney\u201d could be read as <em>finis<\/em>, for finished, as in \u201cHAL finished\u201d \u2014 <strong>AI finished.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s in a name? In this case, perhaps the sum total of a man\u2019s mission on earth.<\/p>\n<p>It was noticed early on that Stanley Kubrick\u2019s death on 3\/7\/1999 occurred <strong>666 <\/strong>days before 1\/1\/2001. It took some time for Crypto-K to come along and ask, What happened <strong>666 <\/strong>days <em>before <\/em>Kubrick died? The answer turned out to be the day that chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov lost a match to the computer Deep Blue, making it the first time that the best human had lost to an <em>artificial intelligence <\/em>in match-play chess \u2014 much the same way that Frank Poole lost to HAL in the film. Compounding the sync is that the computer Deep Blue was built by IBM, and modeled after the Monolith from <em>2001!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The trope continues to express itself: <em>Man vs. Machine<\/em>, in a chess match for all the marbles, with history itself the board for the Game of All Time.<\/p>\n<p>Is Bitcoin someone\u2019s idea of <strong>checkmate<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Satoshi Nakamoto appeared in digital public for the last time 15 years to the day after Kubrick died \u2014 with a message that read \u201cI am not Dorian Nakamoto\u201d \u2014 and then exited the stage for good, much like Flight MH<strong>370 <\/strong>which disappeared along with Satoshi less than 24 hours later. Satoshi\u2019s final message on <strong>3<\/strong>\/<strong>7<\/strong>\/2014 meant that the total time elapsed from his first published word to his final published word was 279 or <strong>42 + 237 <\/strong>weeks. Hal Finney would find his own end later that year, succumbing to ALS on 8\/28\/2014, <strong>4,200 <\/strong>hours after Satoshi\u2019s final post \u2014 and John and Alicia Nash would be taken less than nine months after that.<\/p>\n<p>His death on 8\/28\/2014 meant that Hal Finney\u2019s life\u2019s midpoint occurred around 7\/1\/1985 \u2014 a scant <strong>42 <\/strong>hours before the release of <em>Back to the Future<\/em>, a movie about a plan to use <em>time-travel technology <\/em>to stop a \u201cterrorist\u201d attack and break a temporal curse.<\/p>\n<p>We know Bitcoin is the clockwork orange, but could it also be the <strong>flux capacitor?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe what you\u2019ve read here seems to you like the ravings of a man who has not been properly medicated. But hopefully some shards of this screed will stick in your temporal lobe anyway and in a few weeks or months you\u2019ll be compelled for one reason or another to think about it again, and say, \u201cHuh, maybe that number freak was onto something\u201d. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p>The Fourth Halving took effect on 4\/19\/2024, when the BTC timechain was exactly <strong>19 <\/strong>\u00d7 <strong>42 <\/strong>weeks old \u2014 the Ruler (AI) meets the First Seal and the orange coin, a showdown for life, the universe, and everything.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Satoshi planned that one ahead of time as well, but even if not, he would have loved how perfectly it all worked out.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;The Privacy Issue&#8221;. Subscribe to receive your copy. 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