The other day, I wondered what I’d ask if I had the opportunity to interview Satoshi. What topics would I want to cover with him? What do I want to know most?
So far, I’ve been able to come up with 11 sets of questions about various topics that I think would be fascinating to hear from the mysterious creator of Bitcoin.
Let me know in the comments if I missed anything, or tell me what you would ask Satoshi.
- Who are you? What is your background? Please share as much as you are willing to, going as far back as you care to.
- When and how did you come up with the idea for Bitcoin? Was it something you’d been thinking about and searching for for a long time, or did it just come to you in this eureka moment?
- Why did you go into hiding? Doesn’t a part of you want to take credit for your creation? How hard is it for you not to reveal yourself to the world?
- What do you think of the current state of Bitcoin today? Do you follow its development closely? What do you think of the Bitcoin forks outside of BTC, and the wider crypto space in general? Are you optimistic about its success? What do you think are the biggest hurdles that need to be overcome?
- What would it take for you to come back? Have you considered what you’re going to do with all your coins? Will you use them to further the space, or would you rather they remain unmoved forever?
- Do you have an ideal vision of the world? Can you describe it for me?
- In the version of the future where crypto succeeds, do you think we’ll have many chains that are used, or one dominant chain that stays dominant for a long time?
- Big blocks or small blocks?
- What is your biggest regret about Bitcoin? If you could do it all over again, what would you have done differently?
- I’m guessing many people would say you’re an inspiration to them. Who or what inspires you?
- How would you like to spend the rest of your life? What is your storybook ending?
Yeah, I’m keen to know what he thinks of what has become of Bitcoin; in particular pertaining to the ‘digital gold’ narrative, given that his white paper mentions digital gold neither explicitly nor implicitly; the closest possible reference being in Section 6 – Incentives, which includes the sentence:
“The steady addition of a constant amount of new coins is analogous to gold miners expending resources to add gold to circulation.”
Correction:
Section 6 is titled ‘Incentive’, not ‘Incentives’.
I’ll ask him your number 2 question. I wonder where the idea came from, perhaps he had alot of issues at the bank. Because who thinks to revolutionalize the whole finance world? Who further succeeds at it, then goes tadaaaa.. “i don’t want you to know me nor my real name, here’s my sobriquet if you must remember a creator.”
Did he have kids? A wife? He didn’t leave any benefit of his creation for them..
How did you know it’ll catch on? From the percussions he took he must have been so certain it’ll succeed. He didn’t tell anyone he’s the creator. Those are secrets if 2 people know, it’s no more a secret. He just coded.
Most importantly, how did you connect with hal Finney?