I asked my girl friend yesterday, she is indonesian and work with chinese ambassy and she know a bit of japonese i think.


What she told me that satoshis is a word related to taoist concept of balance of opposite (male/female, yin/yan) etc, and nakamoto mean 'the central source of'.

http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=nakamoto

Nakamoto Name Meaning Japanese: ‘central origin’ or ‘(one who lives) in the middle’; found mostly in the Ryukyu islands.

http://www.behindthename.com/name/satoshi/submitted

Given Name SATOSHI
GENDER: Feminine & Masculine
USAGE: Japanese
PRONOUNCED: sa-TOH-shee
OTHER FORMS: 覚 Japanese
CONTRIBUTOR: Spirited Sarah on 3/12/2011
LAST EDITOR: Spirited Sarah on 5/11/2011   [revision history]
Meaning & History
Means "wisdom" or "sense" in Japanese


So litterally satoshis nakamoto would mean ' the central source of balance '. (Cause wisdom with taoism is related to duality of symmetric opposite)

Because with the kanji also name can be translated to a meaning.

And i'm pretty sure it's not hard to find connection between nash theories of equilibrium from opposite agencies and taoist philosophy of harmonious whole from opposite and central balance.

In the idea, it's not because you name a coin 'archimedes' or 'descartes' that your name is necessarily this

It more look like a philosophic concept based on tao and/or nash game theories, involving surely persons from different field.

It's almost sure to me it involve at least two persons from at least mathematics and IT background.

Because to get into implementing a game theory model on a P2P network like this, need necessarily two persons. And it's obvious the code is not involved with game theory math. But in itself it doesn't mean the value and parameters are not computed from a math model issued from game theory.


And i'm being more and more convinced that there might be game theory model directly involved with the code of bitcoin now.

The two more important value for a node on POW is basically block reward and mining difficulty, that's the two things that matter, and it's exactly the same parameters you would find in game theory model (risk = difficulty = 1 / rateof ( good nonce) ).

Or it doesn't look like something that would not be very hard to express in term of nash game theories.