• Participants attempted to identify Satoshi Nakamoto by mining 1990s cypherpunks mailing-list archives (cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net, p2presearch) for stylometric fingerprints such as the phrases “fairly satisfactorily” and “screaming hot,” and noted that even careful pseudonyms can be unmasked through timing and header analysis.

• Hal Finney’s advanced ALS was discussed in detail: he is now tube-fed, non-verbal, and using an eye-tracking + Arduino wheelchair interface; the group brainstormed next-generation inputs including Emotiv EPOC EEG, active dry electrodes, and eventual ECoG implants.

• A debate on aging mechanisms contrasted “programmed aging” with SENS-style “accumulated damage,” with participants expressing skepticism about antioxidant supplementation and favoring cryonics plus “active shutdown” strategies for life extension.

• Open-source neurotech resources were shared: the Emokit reverse-engineering repo (kanzure/emokit) for Emotiv EPOC, enthusiasm for CLARITY microscopy with receptor-specific stains for high-throughput synapse mapping, and impedance spectroscopy vs. Na⁺/K⁺ ratio assays for tissue-viability testing in cryonics research.

• Missed Bitcoin opportunities were lamented: several members recalled dismissing Satoshi’s 2009 announcement due to “e-currency fatigue,” missing purchases at $0.0038 or 60 EUR, and distilled the lesson “don’t wait for Debian packages—roll your own.”

• The Danish biohack-lab initiative (museion.ku.dk/biohack-lab/) drew criticism for requiring a mandatory “biohacker oath” to work “for the benefit of humankind,” which participants called vague, top-down, and falsely implying universal consensus.

• Low-cost open hardware examples circulated: Twibright Labs’ DIY 2 mm steel plate cutter and PET-bottle sedimentation separator, bunnie’s $12 “Gongkai” phone teardown, and the Indiegogo “Open Tech Forever” open-source industrial-hardware factory.

• VR and BCI convergence was highlighted: GVS (galvanic vestibular stimulation) featured in the 2013 Oculus VR GDC session (YouTube link provided), and eye-tracking-driven dynamic focus adjustment was praised as a route to reduce visual fatigue in consumer VR headsets.

• The OpenWorm project moved its documentation to GitHub-hosted pages (https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm/wiki) to improve openness, while Google Glass’s Mirror API was judged “pretty limited” and developer-restricted, prompting hopes for future reverse-engineering once hardware is widely available.