The timing, the patents, the silence, it all lines up.
This thread might flip your entire view of crypto history and you might fall into a deep rabbit hole.
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2/🧵) The Patent That Predates Bitcoin
In 1991, David Schwartz filed a patent for a “Distributed Computer Network” that sounds eerily like a blockchain.
US Patent No. 20090119384
Years before the Bitcoin whitepaper.
Same structure. Same logic.
The same obsession with decentralization.
3/🧵) The Language Overlaps
People have run stylometric analysis on Satoshi’s forum posts.
Guess whose writing style it closely resembles?
David Schwartz.
Even the use of terms like:
•“censorship-resistant”
•“trustless system”
•“consensus”
It’s almost like he never changed tone… just platforms.
4/🧵) The Quiet Background
Schwartz worked on classified NSA contracts as a cryptographer.
So did other suspected Satoshi candidates like Hal Finney.
But Schwartz kept a much lower profile right until Ripple appeared, with XRP launching shortly after Bitcoin.
Too convenient? Or too perfect?
5/🧵) The XRP Angle
Satoshi wanted Bitcoin to be “peer-to-peer digital cash.”
But over time, it became a store of value, not a payment system.
Enter XRP:
•Built for payments
•Real-time settlement
•Low energy use
What if XRP was Plan B?
A more efficient evolution built by the same mind?
7/🧵) Schwartz Never Confidently Denied It
In multiple interviews, when asked about the Satoshi theory, David Schwartz never gave a direct “no.”
Instead, he leans on:
•“I was around back then…”
•“I had thoughts about proof-of-work early on…”
•And always that cryptic grin when the question comes up.
Almost like someone who knows… but can’t say.
8/🧵) The Theory?
Satoshi Nakamoto was never just one person.
It was a team or a rotating identityof cryptographers, engineers, and forward-thinking rebels.
Bitcoin was the revolution.
XRP was the blueprint for integration.
And David Schwartz?
He wasn’t Satoshi.
He was part of the mission.
