The Brotherhood is a cult..or an ARG I've found that has strong bitcoin associations.

It seems like their belief system is centered around "Destroying the Illuminati",
"Ascending", and using Bitcoin as a way to overthrow the bankers.

The video poster is making bitcoin-related puzzles for participants to solve and even sent one of the clues as an ethereum transaction hex data.
[And hid a hexadecimal message as a private key for eth using sha256].

As well, one of the clues has instructed us to ask: "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?" "an answer may await"...

Here is their channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJolvuxNzyA7pGbztFOJ7hQ/

A discord seems to have been set up as well:
https://discord.gg/UzN6nk

As someone in contact with Satoshi, let me not only tell you Craig is not Satoshi, but that he is a manipulative liar, a con, and has nowhere near a million bitcoin. He merely wants to violate US and international law by using his status to crash bitcoin's price..probably so he can buy in deeper!

Lmao, exactly. More hate. No questions. Not a single free-thinker here! I very plainly gave you all the phone number. It is in the private key I showed in my first post. It is absolutely findable. In fact, it is so simple to find it will blow your mind..you might have to know a bit about encryption technology to be able to do so though!

You're assuming quite a lot, at no point did I imply Satoshi agreed to anything other than the occasional phone call from me.

I merely asked this community to propose a set of questions they have/would have for Satoshi. Do I know Satoshi? Yes, I undeniably believe I do. Whether or not you believe it is up to you, but don't any of you think that instead of hating and bashing, you could simply propose ANY of the curiosities you've had about Bitcoin's creation? It's creator? I ask you NOT to believe me, but to put forth your biggest questions! That's all. I do not see what the harm in that is, and I do not understand the PURE HATRED emanating from you all. I'm not claiming to be the one and only way to Satoshi, I'm claiming I FOUND him. I FOUND him! I want him to come forward to his community, and to explain his work, and to take credit for his work..but in a way that he is comfortable with and that is safe for him.

The biggest questions I think I have/had are thus; but my list is still a WIP and I really do hope someone, anyone, can help me pose legitimate and worthwhile questions, as we have less than 24 hours until I will bother our friend again.

1. Do you still have possession of the private keys? Why or Why not?

2. Why did you disappear?

3. Do you believe yourself to be in danger for your work on Bitcoin v0.1 and the whitepaper?

4. What are your feelings towards other early contributors such as Craig Wright, Hal (Harold) Finney, etc?

5. Do you attend conferences?

6. Do you believe Bitcoin has accomplished your vision?

7. What hopes do you have for cryptocurrency in the future? What are some goals you hope to see our community reach?

8. Do you have any current projects?

9. Are you happy with how Bitcoin affected your life personally?

10. Why have you never come forward to the community?

11. How many people have tried to blackmail or threaten you? Did it significantly affect your life?

12. Was there a specific reason for choosing SHA-256 as the PoW hashing algorithm?

13. How did you feel about community events such as the first forks, clonecoins, and segmented witness?

14. How do you feel about the development of turing-complete on-chain scripting languages such as Ethereum's Solidity?

This community has been incredibly disappointing from beginning to end of this thread. Not a single good question! Just doubt and outright anger! Can I get ONE person to suspend their disbelief long enough to ask a good question? To nominate a member of the community they think is worthy? Guess not. I will come up with some good questions for the Q&A and update this thread with the results during our next call.

 I plan to call Satoshi again 7/3/19 at approximately 7 AM GMT+8,
7/2/19 @ approximately 6 PM American Central Standard Time.

Peace!BTC

Satoshi did not reach out to me, personally, though he did challenge the community to 1000 btc [quite a while back, when McAfee started claiming to be Satoshi] to solve his puzzles. I just happened to solve one of them, alas, for no bitcoin award since I solved one very, very, late.

Regardless of this community's apparent disbelief, I ask that you all suspend it and put forth some good questions for Satoshi and vote for a member of the community that you would think would be the right person to discuss bitcoin with Nakamoto.

People of BitcoinTalk, Rejoice;

Satoshi has been found.

The Path to Satoshi is simple.

It is within this private key, though now that I understand how to find it I doubt any of you will:

49616D5361746F7368694E616B616D6F746F2B36323832313434343135343530

https://www.bitaddress.org/bitaddress.org-v3.3.0-SHA256-dec17c07685e1870960903d8f58090475b25af946fe95a734f88408cef4aa194.html

I have talked with Satoshi over the phone, and he has told me he is open to me communicating with him (he said once or twice a month).

I invite the community to give me a set of our most important questions to him that I will present during our next call.

I also invite the community to select an ambassador who I will invite Satoshi to speak with in a way that is safe for Satoshi.

I do not know how he will feel about me posting this, and I get the impression he simultaneously desires recognition for what he has done, and is afraid of what that recognition could mean.

Satoshi is not Craig Wright. Satoshi does not still have the private keys to his wallets.

Long Live Satoshi,

Signed Hiturunk

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My thought is this: There is only one general-purpose blockchain worth paying attention to these next few years: Ethereum. Bitcoin is never going to be properly developed going forward again, the community has no focus and upgrades to it's network are impossible. We are capped at 1MB and the possibility of a turing-complete programming language is completely ignored. In my opinion, Bitcoin has fulfilled Satoshi's vision, and united us, as common men, in a financial system free from the Tyrant Bankers who caused the financial crisis of 2009.

However, now is the time of the altcoin, and yet, the upstarts around the world are too specialized or copy-cat to truly innovate. The only innovator on the scene is Ethereum, and Ethereum has ACTUAL leadership - Vitalik Buterin.

Ethereum 2.0 and the Golem Network will quickly find themselves becoming the platform upon which more and more of the world's economy rests.
Real Estate, Securities, household items, video game licenses, etc will have their equity (ownership) traded on these platforms more and more over the next few years as an increasingly large developer base and tech-savvy younger generation take the reins of the financial world away from the dying Boomer generation.

Part of the economic hysteria right now is that the Boomers were the largest generation in history - larger than their descendants - Gen X, the Millenials, and Gen Z. These three generations are the generations of Bitcoin adopters, and similarly, these three generations grew up through the 2009 financial crisis. The Boomers are all at Retirement age and a wave of social security, pension, and Required Minimum Distributions from retirement plans is all set against this current market as interest rates rise and bitcoin has arisen. Problem being - the social security pyramid is upside down - not enough people are paying in..and the same is true for the stock market. There aren't enough young people buying in! They're buying drugs, they're eating out, they're consuming like crazy - and not saving! You can't blame them..0% interest rates meant savings/CDs paid nothing and the 2009 financial crisis made them resentful towards bankers and brokers, and the drug war just flat out made them distrust the government in general. The never-ending military conflicts made them further resent the system.
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This is leading to a very chaotic marketplace where, quite frankly, nobody is quite sure what is going on and prices for all assets are very volatile as interest rates on liabilities are incredibly high and comparative incomes/asset-bases of younger generations are low. Worse still, the younger generation are not buying in what the boomers are selling off to retire. If this doesn't rectify it's self - we're gonna be stuck with an older generation forced to sell their retirement savings for pennies on the dollar to foreign investors- the only people I see on the scene with money to wave around -cough cough- the chinese..-cough cough-
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Young Americans need to get investing, not just in Cryptos, but in securities like stocks..they need to participate in the traditional as well as the new systems and push for the institutions to move in the decentralized, free, transparent, and open direction that cryptos provide...no more wondering if a crooked broker actually has your stocks! You can see it on a block explorer!
No more brokers purchasing stocks in street name on our behalves, we can digitally assign and track privately issued stocks now! And even better, with Regulation A, for the first time, the poor and middle class can get in on startups and trading uncertificated shares! I think we should watch for that - a decentralized exchange for uncertificated shares - that will be a sign that the crypto startup economy has started accomplishing real milestones.
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I believe the Ethereum Scalability Problem is soon to be fixed and the Ethereum 2.0 network+Sidechains will finally have enough throughput to handle it's multi-industry applications.
ETH will go at least twice as high as it did in December of last year when this upgrade is complete. $2000+... Although the ramifications of another contentious hardfork are possible, maybe even assured, by mining cartels opposed to Proof of Stake transition. This is an unknown to me, as Miners are the ones who have to /vote/ the hardfork in by mining..and I can see them being very opposed to a transition away from PoW.
I, as a miner my self with a small setup, 12 GPU, am not opposed to PoS. I made money hand over fist from October of last year to now. I make a profit still at $100/ETH! But I think the protocol is vastly more important than my earnings, and I'd like the option to reinvest PoW earnings in to Staking contracts anyway, like a Certificate of deposit!
However, if Vitalik and the rest of the Ethereum Foundation push for a complete transition to Proof of Stake, instead of Hybrid PoW/PoS, I urge everyone in every community to stand diametrically opposed, because that will consolidate the full nodes verifying the network in to the hands of /very few/...Those that can afford to run a powerful mainframe and handle the stakes/accounting problems of others handing them currency to stake on their behalf (Since the staking requirement is relatively high) The beauty of PoW is that anyone can acquire the hardware to compete...
If this happens, the ETH community, and it's developers will go the direction of EOS, a hollow shell of a crypto with a paltry collection of Elites controlling all Masternodes..the economy we're trying to escape!
Ether, not bitcoin, because of it's turing-complete scripting languaage, will become the PLATFORM for ALL markets and municipal/corporate GOVERNANCE (Take a big look at Aragon and 0x for an idea of what I mean). The world is going to become very, very different in the next few years if this Scalability issue can be solved without sacrificing the decentralization that is so key to the anarcho-democratic networks Satoshi envisioned with Bitcoin.

Prices are down because the central bank raised the prime rate, causing all variable rate debt interest rates to rise (Credit cards, Mortgages, auto loans, business loans, etc). This is putting a squeeze on CASH which everyone now needs more of to pay back to their creditors, and the banks back to the Central bank. The time of banks borrowing at 0% and loaning to us at 20% is now over and we are out of dollar free-fall (Which is what caused the huge surge in stock/crypto prices the last few years). You'll notice savings accounts and Certificates of Deposit pay better rates now (Finally over inflation again at some banks! I have CDs from Cap1 that pay 3.1%, inflation is at about 2%. The Elites will do the recession cycle again..They inflate and deflate fiat at will. Any true enthusiast, who shared Satoshi's vision for a worker free from the tyranny of the money printers is undeterred by this current market cycle.
When the dollar is strong, prices on assets fall, when the dollar is weak, prices rise. This gives people an incorrect assumption about the FUNDAMENTALS of the asset. Price DOES NOT EQUAL value. Price is what /someone is willing to pay/ for underlying value. Ergo, the price of, say, wheat can drop to half because this year we had a huge harvest, but that wheat still has the same underlying value in producing a finished product from it. Or a stock's price dropped in half, but the dividends didn't, meaning that if you DRIP your dividends you're getting twice the return. See what I'm saying? Price and value are unrelated to an investor. An amateur speculator, on the other hand, lives on price and ignores asset fundamentals then wonders why he is losing mad money on trades.

Like the difference between someone who buys a house to live in (Or rent out for long-term profit) and someone who buys one to flip for short-term profit , that's the difference between an investor and speculator. The Investor is chasing value (A good, reasonably priced home to USE) for the LONG-TERM and the Speculator is (foolishly) chasing price and worrying about short-term market timing.
We need more crypto INVESTORS going long and less SPECULATORS shorting.
Feel free to find me @ Hiturunk.eth..

Hey there, I would graciously accept this hundredth of a bitcoin.
1EHopuH8JXfdHEkgpNf67oBp5H8fmf5wpf

It is my opinion that investing in the actual hardware to compete with a well-funded mining operation that can issue bonds on GLBSE is madness.
Perhaps investing that $~1000 in securities would be more profitable?

Howdy, The name's Hiturunk and everyone should find me to be a rather nice and intuitive person.