Egggg yolk, howzit going with this channel’s faithful’s the Samurai Army, and of course any newbie who i like to call a viewer of the tube. If you don’t know by now, my name is Dima, the host of the only crypto channel, that at first shocks, you & then brings the entire house down...you know, our zeus juice, it’s time for Samurai Crypto! So did I shock you last week my video last week, which brought forward the evidence out there that Elon Musk could be Satoshi Nakamoto. Did you hear what I just said??? He could be, because there is sooo many different possible candidates out there besides Musk which make some sense...Hal Finney, Wei Dai, Adam Back & even Dave Klieman….but there is one more who makes my list as a contender, who hasn’t been discussed much & it ties back to my #1 hodl, which is OHHHHH so stanky...that is Chainlink founder SN, Satoshi Nakamoto….or Sergey Nazarov. How, is the flan man himself, a candidate for Satoshi? Chainlink was a 2017 ICO??? Didn’t Sergey create it around that time?..... Well, actually no...chainlink has been in the works for a LOOOOONNNNN time, longer than most people realize. Which, relates back to the domain...smartcontract.com, which today is a landing page for Chainlink smart contracts. So, how does this website domain provide evidence, that Sergey could possibly be Satoshi?? Well, the first thing is when the domain was registered….using whois.net, a domain information and lookup tool, we can see that smartcontract.com was officially registered, on October 25th, 2008. 2008? Does that year ring a bell, for anything important, especially the month of October? Well, the first email, Satoshi sent, announcing the release of the bitcoin whitepaper, was done on October 31st, 2008. So, just 6 days before the release of Bitcoin to the masses, Sergey Nazarov secured the domain smartcontract.com, and the email he used to register it with, we can do a reverse lookup of, and as we can see he has also registered a flurry of domain names, from 2008 on, names which will become important. All of that right there is weird, alone...but the fact that smartcontract was secured points to something….as towards the end of Sathoshi’ “time” with Bitcoin, he started posting more and more about “contracts” especially those smart ones...Here is a post, in 2010 about an escrow contract, Satoshi was coming up with for Bitcoin...then in December of that same year, 2010 Satoshi announced the release of version 0.3.18 of bitcoin core, and as we can see Satoshi said “ The main addition in this release is the Accounts-Based JSON-RPC commands that Gavin's been working on...JSON RPC commands? Well if we go to Ethereum, which is the grandaddy of smart contracts, we can see, from this infographic, JSON RPC is an interface for the smart contract calling function….so obviously, Satoshi was thinking smart just before leaving bitcoin...as just a few months later, he sent this email to a group of core devs he was speaking with, some of his last words when asked if he was stepping back from the limelight “I’ve moved on to other things. It’s in good hands with Gavin and Everyone” Was that other things in relation to smart contracts….like smartcontract.com?? Well let’s dive deeper into that domain...and see what we can come up with. Going a bit further, we can confirm once again, that yes it was registered 6 days before the bitcoin whitepaper, but here it shows the Registrant was indeed Sergey Nazarov...but there is also something special there, the registrant’s organization, which says QED Global….and here is where things start to really pick up…rember that name QED Global... So, the domain for smartcontract.com...it laid dormant from the time of registration, until the launch of the actual website in the latter half of 2014. I wonder what the original, smartcontract.com looked like? We know what it looks like today, all spiked up with those Chainlinks...using web archive for the 1st published version...oh shoot, that’s a ton of Bitcoin isn’t it...looks like smart contracts for Bitcoin, including an escrow contract...which Sergey or Satoshi, termed a conditional bitcoin escrow contract. Smart contracts like this, from Sergey or Satoshi, were meant to happen with Bitcoin one of the last things he posted in the forums was regarding the ability for smart contracts, and JSON RPC calls. But Bitcoin doesn’t use JSON RPC, it uses it’s own thing..called Bitcoin RPC and it is used by authenticated clients and servers to connect to a running instance of bitcoin. The clients issue commands to send transactions, get status, and a variety of other purposes. Basically to call contract functions...but, BITCOIN RPC, is bitcoin specific, and not friendly to the outside world of APIs and more...which causes major problems. But, JSON RPC was implemented back then with Bitcoin, as we can see from the Bitcoin Wiki, they have a whole section on JSON RPC...and in it we see, Bitcoin supports SSL (https) JSON-RPC connections beginning with version 0.3.14 exactly when Satoshi was still around But what the freak happened to it? Well continuing, Allowing arbitrary machines to access the JSON-RPC port (using the rpcallowip configuration option) is dangerous and strongly discouraged-- access should be strictly limited to trusted machines. Then, there was enabling SSL on the original client daemon, but that was removed an no longer available on Bitcoin core, as of March 2019, and as we can see from the historical comments, it says this no longer applies as RPC SSL was removed, and below it was JSON RPC over SSL is strongly discouraged, even when it was around. This doesn’t seem like what Satoshi wanted from Bitcoin, as he posted about it being worked ON just before he left. And it kind of looks, from Sergey’s own smart contract.com, that even in 2014, when the website went live, he wanted BITCOIN too. But, you remember just a bit ago, from the whois registration...it said the registrant’s orginization was QED global, and I said that is important. Now why? Well let’s just go to their website today, and look who is still listed as the managing director….a very young picture of Sergey Nazarov is right there. So who is QED? Well Sergey has them listed as part of his job experience...and it says “QED Capital provided founder friendly venture capital to highly technical founding teams in Russia and Eastern Europe...it then says “After the first Bitcoin price spike to $30+ (June 2011) QED Capital turned its attention towards cryptocurrency research and mining. With the emergence of altcoins that offered the first smart contract functionality, we refocused on applying blockchains beyond cryptocurrency and the real world applicability of smart contracts….then it says “Through research, extensive technical due diligence and active participation in multiple cryptocurrency communities, QED eventually led to the creation of an expert technical team that would make the first blockchain-based webmail (CryptaMail), and one of the first live/widely used decentralized applications that used smart contract to move real value (Secure Asset Exchange)...which if we scroll, up of course Sergey was the co-founder and CEO of each of these. So why is this QED and all of this important? Well QED, is russian, they have servers and their clients in Russia, and registered the domain with Sergey. Well, just this Month, Cointelegraph came out with an article, titled “Bitcoin Code Reveals Satoshi Nakamoto Used a Russian Proxy” and the article states, as early as 2009, Satoshi was relied on a russian proxy and the Telltale signs appear in the file “irc.cpp” on line 212...though the details of it were hidden with a cipher, which they were able to crack The article continues “This cipher seems to work by removing all the zeros and then converting the numbers from hexadecimal notation to decimal. That produces what looks like an IP address: 87.251.146. At the time, the proxy was provided by Anders Telecom. It has apparently been defunct since 2016, but we can confirm here that yes, the Proxy was indeed Russian.. Cointelgraph did a search of the IP used, for the proxy, 87.251.146 & you wouldn’t guess what they found...they found that same IP proxy, posting hotel reviews in December, 2008...with the name...Sergey & then again in January 2009, Sergey posting from that Proxy, in a thread about Russian speakers in Vietnam. Now, that is some of the best who is Satoshi, I think we have come across. The russian ties, to Satoshi, as if you didn’t know, BitcoinTalk, the forum Satoshi created, Russian was the 1st non english non english section of it. But I want to play you something to finish this episode off with, Sergey speaking at a 2014 conference about blockchain smart contracts, even before Ethereum was released...let’s begin...yes he says, the full potential of the blockchain….. Now, let’s just go back to the a JSON RPC thread, from bitcoin talk in 2010 satoshi was a part of..regarding JSON RPC, he sad this “as long as the interface is designed for things like showing the user the last N transactions history, it's fine, now that we have the Accounts feature making it easier to do payment detection the right way” Gavin, could listtransactions have an option to list transactions for all accounts? Which who was working on it Gavin Andresen, last replied that year, 2010...about it..Yes, listtransactions "*" is possible. The other account routines could return a new "invalid account name" error if given "*".I've got two issues with it, though: which he lists..and the next comment about this, JSON RPC idea? 2013, a random user asks What is the new state of affairs regarding this issue, after 3 years? Is there a way to poll or get notified when things happen on the network ? No there wasn’t, development had failed to get the full potential, to solve some of these problems Satoshi was last talking about. Which Sergey was plainly saying at the conference with the release of Ethereum, as the crowdsale for this was going on at the time... lets continue Yes, BITCOIN was waiting, Sergey and Ethereum was not. Cheer’s viewers I’ll see you next time!