Phil Wilson

Interesting synopsis covering my background with the Bitcoin tech

Looking around some old drives and found this. What on Earth would I be using this email account for ?

Bud Spencer and Terence Hill Could watch all day

Just like those import tariffs

The original development machine is long gone now. During a shift in residence in 2015 the desktop box was mistakenly thrown out. Most of the Bitcoin development stuff had already been removed from it by then anyway In mid 2011 I purged almost everything Bitcoin related from the development machine. I was quite thorough. Gavin was off the the CIA. I wasn't going to have any evidence left on my PC.

Similar to how the Bitcoin gold coin logo (published Feb 2010) used a set of instructions for its creation (shown here vu.hn/bitcoin-gold-coin-logo… ) The updated orange Bitcoin logo (published in the early hours of Nov 1st 2010) also used a set of instructions for its creation (shown here vu.hn/bitcoin-logo-construct… ) Gee, such a coincidence. It's almost as if the same person designed them both

Another tidbit about the fella behind the bitboy account: After we published the orange logo, we went about creating other marketing images. We did the wallet images and the "accepted here" images. Then he sent me a photo of a piece of paper where he'd tried to draw something down. He asked if I could recreate it due to his photoshop/paintshoppro skills not being very good. He'd drawn that Asian waving pussycat which you see in many Thai and Chinese takeaway shops. He wanted me to try and recreate it using a similar style to how the orange logo was laid out. With specific curves and angles, etc. It was too complex to do that, but there are some simplified elements to its construction

If bitboy ever did log back into his old messageboard account (currently hosted on bitcointalk.org but originally hosted on bitcoin.org), it would be fantastic. Or, more specifically, if he had access to his other account (the one he was using before creating the bitboy account a day before publishing the orange logo), that would be far better. I'd ask him to make public all the private DMs we had over the logo. It would effectively be historic info nowadays

Late April, 2011. Gavin says he's off to visit the CIA for a little "presentation" ...

Adam couldn't even figure out how to modify HashCash so that the hash target adjusted automatically with hashing power. That was yet another invention which had to be figured out. Without it, and other inventions and design decisions, the Bitcoin tech would never have worked and the entire crypto industry would never have existed. Adam never moved on from HashCash

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Seven hour video which talks about some aspects of early Bitcoin development: Note: The long introduction was created after the interviews took place. It's not a prelude. youtube.com/watch?v=_OPCVeo1…

Two hour video which talks about some aspects of early Bitcoin development youtube.com/watch?v=c8RjLf0S…

For anyone who's interested, check out vu.hn/ and have a gander at the Bitcoin Origins story

Regarding the Bitcoin logos and Bitcoin Origins story: There isn't any proof or evidence. Except for circumstantial evidence like: I knew that the Bitcoin logos were created via a list of step-by-step instructions so that they could be replicated. The development explanation in Bitcoin Origins is something most folks wouldn't be able to do. All other "Faketoshies" have only ever been able to point to the resultant tech in Bitcoin and state where that came from. But none of them have been able to explain the actual process of figuring it all out from scratch. To make up a story like that, you would also have to be able to figure out how the tech was created from nothing while at the same time have the elements linked to your own personal history that's known publicly. You'd have to be able to explain particular tech pathways and why the direction was changed to what ended up being released.

The claim finally went through for pump.fun/coin/DRQq4oSMeNENSc…

The fella who *published* the orange Bitcoin logo told me he was a Chinese national but living abroad. I got the impression he was only one timezone away from me (so the timezone left of AEST). I see the current Bitboy account on bitcointalk has changed location to UK, but it was originally "stateless". This isn't the first time the admins on bitcointalk have adjusted his account profile. Back in 2018 or 2019 the admins changed his profile signature (the text/image that's displayed at the bottom of every post) from: "Please download the current Bitcoin logo and other graphics here. | For donation: 1BcQPKcvgLtBp8ZrRSHWewpd3h97BqEQb3" to: "I did not receive any private messages or instruction from anyone before, and when I first created those graphics, not even from SN." You can see the changes here: Original Signature: web.archive.org/web/20160213… Signature was totally removed Sept 2018: web.archive.org/web/20180921… Signature updated to deny any collaboration for the logo: web.archive.org/web/20210514…