- Craig Wright’s May 2016 claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto was rejected after he merely recycled a 2009 Bitcoin signature and refused to release the full signed message, and Gavin Andresen’s commit access to Bitcoin Core was revoked within hours of his public endorsement of Wright.  
- Channel members debated Satoshi’s possible identity, noting that Nick Szabo privately considers Bitcoin’s economic model “fundamentally flawed,” making it unlikely he would have launched it, while others argued the Nakamoto persona was intentionally constructed as an “outsider” for operational security.  
- Bryan Bishop live-transcribed multiple sessions from CoinDesk Consensus 2016 on open-blockchain consensus, digital-asset trading infrastructure, and law-enforcement views on anonymity, posting the transcripts to diyhpl.us/wiki.  
- A CrowdSupply campaign for the open-source LimeSDR (10 MHz–3.8 GHz, 61.44 MSPS, <$300) was highlighted as outperforming the BladeRF at lower cost, having raised $118 k and reached 24 % funding at the time.  
- nmz787_i shared early results from a DIY laser-photoresist PCB micro-milling rig driven by GRBL on an Arduino Nano, troubleshooting stepper artifacts, PWM smoothing, and photoresist adhesion issues.  
- MIT’s announcement of three Earth-sized planets orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star prompted brief speculation on their long-term habitability and relevance to transhumanist interstellar ambitions.  
- A Hacker-News-circulated analysis of the Sci-Hub download dataset (ruleofthirds.de) was noted as offering empirical insight into global patterns of unauthorized research access.  
- Ed Boyden’s expansion-microscopy data was turned into a micro-etched artwork, illustrating the convergence of open neuroscience and science-art.