Mikey Hzberg

1986: The U.S. Supreme Court explicitly ruled that the Constitution did not protect the right of gay adults to engage in private, consensual intimacy, a decision that validated criminalization until 2003.

2008: Just months after gaining the right to marry in California, voters passed Proposition 8 to successfully amend the state constitution and strip that right away until courts overturned it in 2013.

1986: The U.S. Supreme Court explicitly ruled that the Constitution did not protect the right of gay adults to engage in private, consensual intimacy, a decision that validated criminalization until 2003.

1993: The U.S. enacted "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," forcing over 13,000 LGBTQ+ military service members to hide their identities under threat of immediate dismissal before its 2011 repeal.

1986: The U.S. Supreme Court explicitly ruled that the Constitution did not protect the right of gay adults to engage in private, consensual intimacy, a decision that validated criminalization until 2003.

Be safe re: #Cyclosporiasis -- Washing/rinsing with water is _not_ enough & vinegar won't kill it;

Some raw food items trap microscopic contaminants -- like mesclun mixes, bagged salads, cilantro, basil, raspberries, and snow peas;

For many years I pursued universal #React components through abstraction: wrapper layers, platform bridges, conditional rendering. Each approach added complexity. Components got heavier. "Write once, run anywhere" became "write once, debug everywhere." The premise was wrong.

I decided to invert the model: Two polymorphic primitives that defer to their platform. Registry seams that inject behavior without coupling dependencies. Patterns that compose atoms, never inherit. A design system built on what to separate, not what to share.

Some #satoshi and #crypto thoughts. I've become confident that it's #NickSzabo. Some clues along the way that IMHO that point to him. The biggest I'd say, is the 2014 email hack:

Hal Finney was the vital collaborator and beta-tester who supplied the name of his neighbor. Len Sassaman was a brilliant cypherpunk contemporary solving similar problems in Belgium.

Some #satoshi and #crypto thoughts. I've become confident that it's #NickSzabo. Some clues along the way that IMHO that point to him. The biggest I'd say, is the 2014 email hack:

... he created the Nakamoto pseudonym, utilized Hal Finney as his trusted C++ sounding board, launched the network, and then deliberately burned the "Satoshi" identity to the ground in 2011 to ensure Bitcoin remained truly decentralized.

Some #satoshi and #crypto thoughts. I've become confident that it's #NickSzabo. Some clues along the way that IMHO that point to him. The biggest I'd say, is the 2014 email hack:

... he created the Nakamoto pseudonym, utilized Hal Finney as his trusted C++ sounding board, launched the network, and then deliberately burned the "Satoshi" identity to the ground in 2011 to ensure Bitcoin remained truly decentralized.

Some #satoshi and #crypto thoughts. I've become confident that it's #NickSzabo. Some clues along the way that IMHO that point to him. The biggest I'd say, is the 2014 email hack:

Alibi = 2001 Pivot The timing here is the nail in the coffin; Satoshi vanishes in April 2011 and exactly 1 month later, in May 2011, Szabo publishes "Bitcoin, what took ye so long?," effectively stepping into the daylight while distancing himself from the Nakamoto pseudonym.

Some #satoshi and #crypto thoughts. I've become confident that it's #NickSzabo. Some clues along the way that IMHO that point to him. The biggest I'd say, is the 2014 email hack:

Every single forensic, linguistic, and ideological road leads directly to Szabo. Motive = The Gold Standard Szabo was obsessed with the history of money, the physical limitations of the gold standard, and the concept of "unforgeable scarcity."

Some #satoshi and #crypto thoughts. I've become confident that it's #NickSzabo. Some clues along the way that IMHO that point to him. The biggest I'd say, is the 2014 email hack:

April 5, 1933, is the exact date of US Executive Order 6102: The day President Franklin D. Roosevelt criminalized the private ownership of gold!! Bitcoin wasn't just a tech experiment; it was a direct, ideological retaliation against the state-controlled confiscation of money.

Some #satoshi and #crypto thoughts. I've become confident that it's #NickSzabo. Some clues along the way that IMHO that point to him. The biggest I'd say, is the 2014 email hack:

2014 Email Hack had Military-Grade OpSec --> The hacker found mostly recent spam and a few post-2011 messages. This heavily implies that when Satoshi sent his final "I've moved on to other things" email in April 2011, he meticulously wiped his inbox and sent folders clean.

Some #satoshi and #crypto thoughts. I've become confident that it's #NickSzabo. Some clues along the way that IMHO that point to him. The biggest I'd say, is the 2014 email hack: