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[EvilGenius]

[GuyIncognito]

[Cabbage]

But there are two ways of looking at this problem.

The first is to infer everything you can and make assumptions like he is probably Japanese and the location looks European.

The second is to question the assumptions, stay open-minded: he could be a naturalised American / Australian / Briton (etc), the location could have been specifically chosen to mislead as it is not typical of the place where it is actually located.

Don't think this actually helps much (except maybe the bit about staying open-minded, which I think people are anyway). I'll shut up now.

Cabbage

[ixalon]

[GuyIncognito]

I agree on keeping open-minded and not necessarily putting his name on the site. The way I see it, right now we may have enough information to verify if someone is our guy, but not enough information to actually find him on our own. So being able to identify likely candidates (once we get this off the ground) will be very helpful.

Speaking of helpful, I can take care of the german translation for the site.

[myf]

I've been thinking (dangerous, I know), and am probably barking up entirely the wrong tree, but I need to get these thoughts out of my brain:

The UN declared that the world's population reached 6 billion in 1999, and (arbitrarily it seems) said that the 6 billionth child was born in Sarajevo. Various people have commented about the architecture in the picture looking European rather than Oriental, so does Sarajevo have buildings like those in the photo?
Or, if the chap in question is Chinese: I found something that said the population of China was projected to reach 1 billion by 1980. Did China do a similar thing and declare a certain child as the billionth person in China? If they did, might this be him?

I doubt any of this is going to be any use at all, so I'm going to stop thinking now.

[Cabbage]

[ramsfan]

[Dragonscales]

Still avoiding spoilers here because it's mostly spec:

Just a thought (nice thinking, by the way, myf), the hint: My name is Satoshi could (knowing MC) not be as straightforward as first thought. It could, of course, be perfectly true, which is most annoying.

And seeing as Von is the one who sent the hint... could he be revealing something we don't know!?

Satoshi Lubik?!?

But seriously, this is the hardest card... so personally, I believe it's going to be as straightforward as the card says: You just have to find this man. Which is hard enough anyway.

Oh, and by the way, China has 1.3 billion people, but Billion To One obviously sounds better :p

Add www.billion2one.org to your MSN names and get the man's face as your DP. That's what I've done!

Ben

[mac_monkey]

Okay,

My comments on the last few posts.

Great site, quick to pull it out of the bag, however it was perhaps a little hasty. I think MC should have been asked before using the picture on the site, I think there needs to be an explanation on there as to why we need to find him, why he's so important and I wouldn't be too sure that he holds clues to where the cube is. This is implied on the site and perhaps shouldn't be.

That said, it's not a criticism I do commend your work and think it's great you have a page up with translations up so soon.

Regarding Vons hint, it's exactly that! It's not cryptic nor is it supposed to confuse us-in my experience hints don't do that, even at Mind Candy.

It would be nice to get some more leads (such as the 6 Billion people thing in 1999) as we may be on the wrong track. In my opinion, this card is as obvious as we suspect, but we need some other spec to make us confirm or deny what we already think.

Excuse me if I appear rude, it isn't meant to appear like that; I'm just trying to keep it real.

[spugmeistress]

great work on the site guys :)

hope no-one minds but i bulletinned (and i dont do that *ever*) and left a comment on scarlett's myspace to the following effect:

[mac_monkey]

[ixalon]

[ixalon]

[Agent Lex]

I've set up a channel on the same IRC server as #syzygy (irc.chat-solutions.org port 6667) for discussion on techniques to spread the word, named #satoshi. All are welcome to come join the discussion, we've got a fair few ideas kicking around.