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The Life of Fredrick Brennan feat. Jay Brandstetter (E361) Podcast Episode · QAA Podcast · February 27 · 1h 9m

I guested on QAA (formerly Qanon Anonymous) answering their questions about Fred and telling some stories, there are a few repeats from my podcast's episodes on him but there's plenty new and I had so much fun interacting with a show I've been aware of for so long! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We had Fredrick Brennan on the QAA podcast several times. He always had valuable insights on the technical aspects of imageboards, internet history, and the Watkins duo.

He was notoriously temperamental but speaking to him left little doubt about the sincerity of his hatred for 8chan and QAnon.

It created an urgency to take actions unthinkable to most.

He lived more lives in that broken body than most “normies” in 80 years. Some destructive, some redemptive.

Fredrick Brennan died on Jan 10th, at age 31. He would have been 32 today.

The outpouring of reactions reveals just how many lives Fred personally touched through the internet, for better or worse.

He grew up on the internet. Embodied the internet. Existed in that space between reality and the internet.

We often joked that his condition put him in a race against time...

Intellectually dishonest question. Just watch the series if you actually want answers.

Did you watch the series? He didn’t excuse himself. And he sure paid for trying to unwind his creation. Complex only begins to describe it.

I want to memorialize Fred tonight by posting pictures from our years together. He became my friend in late 2023, my employer in early 2024, and my partner for the last six months of his life. He's basically been my entire life ever since I moved to Atlantic City in summer of 2024.

I believe it. Easy to lose small items in there. They definitely needed some support

Fredrick Brennan has died, apparently in his sleep.

We went through some crazy sh*t together filming Q: Into the Storm.

Fred was one of the most complicated people I’ve ever known, his flavor of genius unmatched.

He was hilarious, occasionally dangerous and eccentric in all the best ways.

A dormant 2011 Satoshi-era wallet finished moving 80,000 BTC—over $9.6B. If that’s one person, they quietly became one of the 400 richest people on Earth.

Adam Back’s Blockstream recently did a 30,000 BTC OTC deal. Same coins?

Trump launched a meme coin and it became worth $32 billion overnight Companies associated with the president-elect own as much as 80% of the supply.

Trump launched his own meme coin overnight and swiftly appeared to make more than $25 billion on paper for himself and his companies.

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I'm watching @cullenhoback.bsky.social Money Electric finally and if Peter Todd isn't Satoshi, the way everyone acts so fucking weird makes me wonder if they accidentally killed the real Satoshi at a coked up party or something

Q influencer Liz Crokin’s new interest in Bitcoin has led her to discover Bitcoin Pizza Day—when 10k Bitcoin was paid for 2 pizzas.

She baked it as a Pizzagate style conspiracy.

I asked Liz Crokin if she thought the earth was flat. She said she didn’t know. 🤷

Peter Todd appears to slip-up in interview with Bitcoin Magazine NL, says “when I started Bitcoin.”

In Money Electric, we suggest Peter Todd may be Satoshi. There has been ongoing debate since release.

Looking for writing errors, linguistic quirks and doing analysis of the original code seemed especially prudent.

ie. Satoshi spelled decentraliz/sed both ways on the same day. Adam and Peter also toggle between styles.

The original code was brilliant but messy, looked like an electrical engineer.

Watched Money Electric last night. Fully convinced, that Peter Todd created Bitcoin.

And fun that the creator @cullenhoback.bsky.social is on here already

Can’t stress enough if you plan to attend a protests, turn your phone off miles from the site & don’t turn it back on until you’re miles away. Go ahead and buy a faraday bag. It’s not crazy.

“satellites” is the refrain

Answers about the transition to their desired utopia usually involve some highly disruptive period, then a rush to Bitcoin. But what that world actually looks like? The fantasy seems closer to Snow Crash or Cryptonomincon

I just joined Bluesky.

After Q: Into the Storm’s release, I dropped off social media to investigate Bitcoin’s origins and those trying to make it the global reserve currency. Our findings were just released on HBO. The film is called Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery

Here to fill in the blanks!

As he says in the end, the goal is “to make Bitcoin the global reserve currency.” Once it becomes intractable, Satoshi could potentially broker an OTC deal with a nation state. Until then, Satoshi can get by on coins that don’t follow the Patoshi pattern.

Yeah, he’s definitely unhappy we followed the evidence, eventually leading us his direction. His techniques were effective. He wasn’t even a suspect the first 6 months I filmed with him.

However, I think he likes the attention, enjoys the cat and mouse. Someone who knows him well:

Y’all, the Money Electric documentary about Bitcoin is sending my financial auditor boyfriend over the edge.

Or Todd is lying

Watching Money Electric. The new HBO documentary on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin’s inventor is a mystery. An HBO filmmaker thinks he found him. The HBO documentary explores the mystery of bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, and suggests Peter Todd as a potential candidate.

The identity of the inventor of bitcoin might be the internet’s most enduring and consequential mystery. Now, the creator of a new HBO documentary thinks he may have solved the riddle.

Huh?

Elon has been posting QAnon memes and dog whistles for years now and when I asked him why he just said "lol" and now he's close friends with the president-elect www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...