Why did Satoshi choose Halloween to publish the bitcoin whitepaper?
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🗓️ 31 October 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another crypto, scary, skeletons, and shivers down your spine. |
| 0:07.4 | And shripping skulls, shot your soul and seal your dooling night. |
| 0:11.1 | Welcome back to another Crypto Daily 3 at 3. |
| 0:15.4 | What's going on, guys? |
| 0:17.3 | Happy Halloween. |
| 0:19.1 | It is Thursday, October 31st. and it is getting spooky up in here. So today we're |
| 0:26.3 | just doing a quick one. I wanted to do a fun little exploration, right? So for those who don't know, |
| 0:32.4 | I was a history major. I've always been obsessed with history. I think for me, it's obvious that the past |
| 0:38.5 | has a huge amount to tell us about what's happening and why it's happening and what might happen next. |
| 0:43.5 | And I loved how history, at least theoretically, kind of avoided too much theory and trying to |
| 0:48.8 | map events onto some explanatory idea versus just presenting them and letting you figure it out. And so in the |
| 0:55.1 | spirit of things that happened in us trying to figure it out, I wanted to look at this interesting |
| 1:01.3 | question, I think, which is why did Satoshi choose Halloween 2008 to be what has become known, |
| 1:10.1 | as Joe Wisenthal here says, white paper day. |
| 1:13.6 | So 11 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto sent off the Bitcoin P-to-Pee-Cash paper to a basically |
| 1:25.6 | an email thread of interested parties. |
| 1:29.3 | And that really kicked off this whole thing |
| 1:31.3 | and why we're all here. |
| 1:33.3 | So today you've had a lot of folks celebrating White Paper Day. |
| 1:36.3 | You have Joe here, like I said, you have Jameson Lopp, |
| 1:39.3 | who had this great Halvonine meme from Fnip, who's an awesome graphic kind of meamer on crypto Twitter. |
| 1:48.3 | You've got Binance celebrating it on October 31st, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a Bitcoin |
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