NEUROMANCER MEETS BITCOIN
"Anyone know who William Gibson is, just by a show of hands. Unfortunately too few. So William Gibson is a science fiction author and he coined the term cyberspace, he coined the term cyberpunk in a novel called Neuromancer and he has this great quote which I think really captures everything that we’re trying to do in this world as entrepreneurs, as founders, as builders of companies and products and ideas in that 'The future has already arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.' Which is an amazing thing to think about. And this is exactly how we run our companies as well. "
- Jack Dorsey, 5/13/13

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First two decoded bytes of the hashMerkleRoot of the Genesis Block: J^K
A ^ (cateret) means to add text in between. Aka JACK or JAK

Keyholder in Neuromancer: 3Jane  
Genesis Block: 3Jan

8-day Gap Between Genesis Block and First Transaction with Hal Finney (1/3  - 1/11)
Protagonist's mission in Neuromancer can’t start for 8 days: “Sorry, hotshot. Eight day wait. Your nervous system would fall out on the floor if you jacked in now.”

Genesis Block Award of 50 Bitcoins
Protagonist starts off with 50 New Yen

Genesis Wallet Public Key 
04678AFDB0FE5548271967F1A67130B7105CD6A828E03909A67962E0EA1F61DEB649F6BC3F4CEF38C4F35504E51EC112DE5C384DF7BA0B8D578A4C702B6BF11D5F
The serial number in Neuromancer to recover the file that will reincarnate the protagonist's mentor Dixie Flatline is 0467839.   5 of the first 7 digits are the opening characters of the public key. The other 2 are in the middle. 

Genesis  Block Time Stamp 1231006505 (ends in 15 minutes and 15 seconds)
Reference to the opening line of chapter 15 by that mentor. “You tryin’ to break my record, son?’ The Flatline asked. ‘You were dead again, five seconds.”

London Times headline  hidden in the hex
The protagonist quickly deciphers the grid coordinates and entry codes to discover that the next part of the mission is in London.

Satoshi would've hyped up the Neuromancer angle in Bitcoin's founding because he was helped early on by Hal Finney and the last name worked beautifully:
A character named Finn helps the protagonist through the book: “Finn’s an old connection of mine. Fence mostly. Software. This privacy biz is a sideline. But I got Armitage to let him be our tech here, so when he shows up later, you never saw him, got it?” - quote from the book

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"I missed meeting William Gibson tonight at Cody’s in Berkeley (not to mention Steve Pinker and Clifford Stoll the nights before; grrrr). does anyone happen to know of a tour schedule for the signing? i’ll travel most any distance. i bought a signed copy of the new book, but that doesn’t do much for me. i really just want to tell him 'thanks.' email to me would be best. i’ll post whatever i find if it hasn’t been already."
– Jack Dorsey, 10/30/99

"Bitcoin and Satoshi in 2009 was a combination of my childhood and my curiosity and everything that I aspired to be and everything I loved"
– Jack Dorsey, 10/27/23