BITCOIN SEASON 2: The Crazy Satoshi Theory About Jack Dorsey

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🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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There’s a new theory that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is Satoshi Nakamoto. We dive into the crazy (yes, it’s truly crazy) rabbithole that is the Dorsey x Nakamoto conspiracy. You're listening to Bitcoin Season 2. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 7,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Charlie & Colin break down the conspiracy theory that claims Jack Dorsey is Satoshi Nakamoto. You might be surprised how deep the rabbithole goes and how crazy the connections sound. Notes: • Jack Dorsey’s Vietnamese restaurant • Hidden address references in old Bitcoin transactions • Are clues hidden in comic books? Check out our Bitcoin scaling conference! Visit opnext.dev to learn more. Chapters: 00:00 Is Jack Dorsey Satoshi? 01:14 The bizarre connections begin 02:29 Jack’s “Satoshi” Shirt 05:02 Jack Dorsey was a Cypherpunk 09:52 Clues in old vanity addresses 19:07 Jack, Bitcoin, and nautical references 36:54 Why Jack Dorsey isn’t Satoshi - 👉 Brought to you by Arch Network! Arch brings the speed of Solana & the best of crypto UX to Bitcoin. Tap into the rich app ecosystem on Arch & try out the testnet while you’re still early! Visit arch.network to learn more. - 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is produced Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Rumors are circulating that Jack Dorsey is Satoshi Nakamoto.
0:04.6	Make sure you listen to this entire episode because we will explain.
0:08.9	We'll tear it apart and break it down and we'll tell you exactly why Satoshi is Bitcoin Season 2 Riders Room.
0:30.0	This is a little bit of a bray from Bitcoin Season 2.
0:32.6	This is Colin and I, the screenwriters of the new season of Bitcoin, take off the gloves, sit back, crack a
0:40.8	whiskey sometimes, and highly editorialize an investigative story. How are you doing today, Colin?
0:46.9	Doing all right. Lacking in whiskey and lacking in lucky strikes, like a good gum shoe.
0:52.1	But today, we are out on the road, so to speak. We are searching
0:57.8	far and wide. Searching for Jack Dorsey. Satochi Nakamoto. One man claims to have found him
1:05.3	and he makes, depending on who you ask, a darn good case or a darn crazy one.
1:12.1	And we're going to unpack it on today's show.
1:14.2	Yeah, this is one of those topics that at first blush it may look like,
1:19.4	oh, some guy made a tweet thread about Satoshi.
1:22.2	But then when Colin and I started digging into it, we found that this is about as deep
1:27.4	of a rabbit hole as a, as a
1:29.5	as a gumshoe can ask for. This is a deep, deep rabbit hole. This man touches on numerology. He touches
1:37.9	on geolocation. He touches on obscure references to cypherpunk texts.
1:46.8	He talks about a graphic novel written by one of Jack Dorsey's friends that apparently
1:53.3	implicates him as Satoshi.
1:55.5	The dude really went hard here.
1:58.2	There's nautical, there's shanties. There are not a cool references that he
2:04.6	touches on. I mean, there is not a stone uncovered. There's transaction, transaction,
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