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Former Bitcoin Developer Shares Early Satoshi Nakamoto Emails (vice.com)
Jordan Pearson, writing for Motherboard: Satoshi Nakamoto is Bitcoin's anonymous creator and absentee head of state. In the years since she (or he, or they) disappeared into the ether and left the technology in the hands of a few high-profile developers, Nakamoto's words have become nigh-gospel for some in the Bitcoin world. On Friday, a user going by "CipherionX" on the Bitcointalk forum published five emails allegedly between Satoshi Nakamoto and former Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn. In an email to Motherboard, Hearn confirmed that he shared the emails with the user. While Hearn himself, who was one of the earliest Bitcoin developers, has previously quoted most of the juicy bits from his correspondence with Nakamoto, it appears to be the first time much of the material has been shared in full. None of the emails are included on a popular database of Nakamoto's writings collected from old emails and forum posts.
Wait for some sort of verification before you start a "Satoshi Said" holy war.
Satoshi ... is generally a masculine Japanese given name.
What more there is to debate about? This part is clear.
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Nah, it's Keyser Soze that's fake. Satoshi is real. Hangs out on an island with Tupac.
Nakamoto's words have become nigh-gospel for some in the Bitcoin world.
and:
None of the emails are included on a popular database of Nakamoto's writings collected from old emails and forum posts.
Who reveres this imaginary person so much? Who would maintain a popular database of his writings? Could it be Satoshi Nakamato?
Plotline from "The Usual Suspects 2: Fedora Island"
Yes, they already have:
http://www.google.com/search?q=buttcoin
This. Assuming the name wasn't specifically designed to disguise sex, it's clearly a male.
Of course, many believe Satoshi is actually a group of people.
Why would â" for a none Japanese â" Satoshi be clearly a male name?
Plenty of jap. names are unisex, and the ending vowel like a/o in italian e.g does not indicate any sex in jap.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Stupid millenial here. 'They' can also be singular.
For example: "I replied to an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot, because they needed a lesson in grade school grammar."
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
There are a small number of N.Koreans in Japan that might be behind bitcoin to topple capitalist pigs.
And trying to correct people when you don't even know the topic is also incorrect. They're saying he/she/they because there's a possibility that "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a team or at least a group of people.
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Or maybe it's the opposite. She created Bitcoin with the knowledge that within a few years she could buy new shoes every hour.
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"Can be" of course refers to acceptability and idiolects. Different people speak differently, nothing surprising there. Some he-ists may be sometimes confused by some they-ists (happens to me quite often!), some they-ists may sometimes be confused by some he-ists. He-or-she-ists will most likely be always understood by all, but many he-ists and they-ists will be hard to convince to change camps for that reason alone (a little bit like you won't convince a person to learn a random foreign language for no good reason).
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From Merriam-Webster:
Much has been written on they, and we aren’t going to attempt to cover it here. We will note that they has been in consistent use as a singular pronoun since the late 1300s; that the development of singular they mirrors the development of the singular you from the plural you, yet we don’t complain that singular you is ungrammatical; and that regardless of what detractors say, nearly everyone uses the singular they in casual conversation and often in formal writing.
You also used to be plural, but they and you became acceptable for singular use around the same time, 700 years ago.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
I don't care about any of that. The OP I was replying to specifically said that it was grammatically incorrect, and that is not true.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
Oxford also agrees, and apparently so did Shakespeare:
Despite objections, there is a trend to use ‘singular they’. In fact, it is historically long established. It goes back at least to the 16th century, and writers such as Shakespeare, Sidney, Byron, and Ruskin used it:
There's not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend
(Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors)
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
It's neither incorrect not correct. These are almost antiquated notions AFAIK.
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Uh, where is "they" in the quote you used?
Satoshi is typically a male name in Japanese.