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Bitstein retweeted
so is this useful at all?
not really. but we can now confirm with certainty that the executable people downloaded matches satoshi's published source code exactly 😄
some other archeological fun facts:
- satoshi used windows xp with mingw
- he upgraded binutils halfway through the project
- he shipped a debug build, but turned on max optimization for one file: the hashing used for mining
- the exe everyone calls v0.1.0 is actually v0.1.1 and was compiled two days after satoshi announced v0.1. the original launch-day binary seems to be lost
github.com/t4t5/bitcoin-0.1-…
Bitstein retweeted
i rebuilt satoshi's 2009 bitcoin.exe byte for byte!
afaik nobody has been able to perfectly recreate the executable published in 2009 from source, because we didn't know the exact build environment that was used.
using opus 5.5, i reverse-engineered satoshi's build machine from the binary.
it now outputs an exe with the exact same sha256 as the 2009 release!
"Help! We degraded education into pointless box checking, and now the students have figured out how to make the boxes check themselves!”
Conservatives need to understand this.
AI is already ruining higher education. It's already been far more disruptive, toxic, and demotivating than wokeness & DEI ever were.
Academics can't assign homework, take-home problem sets, or term papers -- too many students will use AI to cheat.
We can't give assignments or run assessments in online courses -- too many students will use AI to cheat.
We can't be sure what percent of any honors thesis, masters thesis, or dissertation is really the student's own work. Likewise for grant applications, grad school applications, and journal papers.
Even worse, after AI-enabled 'smart glasses' with cameras and microphones become common and inconspicuous, we won't even be able to run in-class quizzes, tests, or discussions without worrying that students are secretly using their AIs to feed them answers and prompt their discussion questions.
Wokeness was a serious threat to the intellectual integrity and viewpoint diversity of universities.
But AI is a serious threat to the entire academic enterprise.
If you're a conservative and you care at all about classic education and the Western canon, you need to wake up to the real threat here -- students offloading all reading, writing, learning, and skill development to AIs.
Bitstein retweeted
Join us for a wonderful evening of great food, fellowship, and talk of bitcoin's history and future.
And be sure to stick around for the Bitcoin Takeover at @bitcoinpark_.
Bitstein retweeted
Excited for the return of this once great tradition. If you've been, you know. Coinciding with Bitcoin Takeover week and SXSW in Austin, the SNI Annual Dinner will be incredibly high signal.
Join us for a wonderful evening of great food, fellowship, and talk of bitcoin's history and future.
And be sure to stick around for the Bitcoin Takeover at @bitcoinpark_.
Bitstein retweeted
A great tradition is returning. The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute Annual Dinner is back, and we hope you’ll join us for a memorable evening on Thursday, March 12th, 2026, in Austin, TX.
Space is limited. Reserve your seat below.
People are excited about Ralph Wiggum, but @blocks and @jack quietly released what I'm dubbing Principal Skinner, an adversarial feedback loop to better ensure complex task success.
"Adversarial Cooperation In Code Synthesis"
>This paper introduces dialectical autocoding: a novel approach to AI-assisted software development that transcends the limitations of current vibe coding tools through a structured coach-player feedback loop. By implementing a bounded, adversarial process between two cooperating agents, we demonstrate how intelligent AI programs can make substantially more progress on complex coding tasks, resulting in better tested, more robust implementations, while working around fundamental attention and human-in-the-loop limitations.
Bitstein retweeted
"Those foundations are here for El Salvador to be building on in perpetuity."
@bitstein is the OG Bitcoin historian, as the founder and president of the @NakamotoInst.
His work preserves a digital archive of the most important ideas and conversations from Bitcoin's history and pre-history.
In this mini-interview at El Salvador's National Palace during Bitcoin Histórico, the extraordinary event produced by @stacyherbert and @maxkeiser and the @bitcoinofficesv, we discussed:
- why Bitstein founded the Nakamoto Institute in 2013
- some examples of their most famous articles and terms they've popularized such as "speculative attack" and "hyperbitcoinization"
- his first impression of El Salvador
- why it's important for Bitcoiners to understand history
If you agree that it's important to preserve Bitcoin's history, you can click the quoted post to learn more about the Nakamoto Institute and support their work:
Bitstein retweeted
Links rot. Documents disappear. Context gets lost. Those who understand why bitcoin was built the way it was won't be around forever.
Help us build the Library of Bitcoin to advance and preserve bitcoin's ideas and legacy by making a tax-deductible donation today. Link below.
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Bitstein retweeted
My niece Stella makes the case for AI optimism, bitcoin as savings, and @AlphaSchoolATX 's model for education. If you've ever worried whether the kids are alright, Stella will make you excited about GenZ/Alpha entering the economy.
TFTC 695 w/ Stella of @AlphaSchoolATX: "I'm 15 and built my entire website using Claude without writing a single line of code. Being anti-innovation makes no sense. AI is the future."
We discuss:
⚡️ Gen Alpha's AI advantage
⚡️ The future of education
⚡️ Building with zero code
