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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.
Nah, it's Keyser Soze that's fake. Satoshi is real. Hangs out on an island with Tupac.
Plotline from "The Usual Suspects 2: Fedora Island"
People who understand the significance of what he created?
People who think he may still be out there?
People who think it's a pseudonym for a government group, alien invasion team, barbershop quarter?
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.
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.