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Something that always made me think Satoshi was American was his use of the American English spelling of certain words. Your emails show an example like American spelling Organization instead of the British spelling Organisation. But the Genesis block British headline threw me off. Back in the day I just figured he was an American living in England. But I didn't really care. Back then, nor today, did I use my real name on any internet correspondence that wasn't work or finance related. I was compartmentalizing or practicing separation of concerns since I got on the internet in the early 90s and just thought everyone else did as well. My only regret was treating bitcoin as an IT curiosity early 2011 instead of taking it seriously.
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He spells colour correctly though 😉. The default is always American English so the fact he has changed it at all would imply he is not American or it's more than one person. The first time he says organize is between two times he says colour and the second time says colour is a month later. Seems like it could be more than one person or hes switching computers set up for different types of English.
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Thank you for sharing this thread, “Birth of Bitcoin” I call it. So so interesting. I didn’t know Ripple was around at that time. The text is so interesting to read; as if God and Jesus (beg pardon, no sacrilege or disrespect intended) are having a Sunday morning tea.
“I plan to work on the escrow feature next, which is needed to make actual trades for physical stuff safer and before backing the currency with fiat money can begin.” What was Satoshi referring to here ?
It's cool to see how the fundamentals were there already, but the notion of non KYC clearly didn't exist yet. Looking forward to finding out what notions we don't have words for yet in the systems we build today.