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In case others are wondering: > Q: Is this related to Bitcoin? > A: No. Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym used by the person who created Bitcoin, but it’s not
by nojs 6y ago
In case others are wondering:
> Q: Is this related to Bitcoin?
> A: No. Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym used by the person who created Bitcoin, but it’s not the same Satoshi.
Weirdly this apparently pre-dates that other Satoshi puzzle by a few years.
- gpvos 6y agoMaybe Nakamoto named themself after this Satoshi.
- alisonkisk 6y agoIt's a normal Japanese given name.
- GreenHeuristics 6y agoThe first letter of it is the character 'S'.
- chmod775 6y agoNo, it's サ ;)
- Natsu 6y agoOr possibly a few other characters... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%95%E3%81%A8%E3%81%97#Japanese https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%95%E3%81%A8%E3%81%97#J...
- TJSomething 6y agoIf we're being pedantic, that's not a letter. It's a mora. Also, we don't know the correct Japanese spelling of Satoshi Nakamoto, because there like 8 common first names pronounced Satoshi (哲, 悟, 敏, 智, 聡, 慧, 訓, and 諭) and he never wrote his name in Japanese.
- da_big_ghey 6y agoAre they all transliterated as "Satoshi" as well, or just pronounced that way? I know absolutely nothing about Japanese, so this may be a stupid question.
- moufestaphio 6y agoChinese characters (In Japan they referred to as Kanji), are ideographic rather than phonetic. This means they represent an idea (or concept?) instead of a sound. The meaning is completely divorced from the pronunciation. In Japanese each character usually has at least two 'readings' for pronunciation onyomi (chinese-origin reading) and kunyomi (Japanese reading). But often have even more than that, and specifically with peoples names the readings some times feel completely arbitrary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji#Readings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji#Readings Basically, there are multiple ways to get the same 'sound' from different kanji, or get a different 'sound' the same kanji.
- Ericson2314 6y agoWhile we are continuing this chain of pedantry, few characters are in fact ideographic. Mainly the the oldest ones. Most are "Phono-semantic" i.e. a combination of "sounds like this, but means like this". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classificati... BTW I recall later Egyption hieroglyphs were not strictly ideographic either, leading up to the Phonetician alphabet. I wonder how similar that process was.
- cyphar 6y agoGP probably meant logographic rather than ideographic (and kanji are a logographic writing system), because they were making a comparison to phonographic writing systems. I imagine most non-linguist nerds (myself included) would confuse the distinction between logographic writing systems and ideographs.
- cyphar 6y ago
- piracy1 6y agoI like that idea, because he knew everyone would try to 'Find Satoshi'
- eecks 6y agoI only clicked because I thought it was Bitcoin related. Even though it predates Bitcoin, I assume the popularity is given by Bitcoin's current media coverage.
- lolbrels 6y agoThere was a somewhat viral video which included a lady explaining the search in detail which is more likely where the recent popularity stems from.