If you're going to send a Bitcoin transaction into the peer-to-peer network it needs to start with a magic number. All Bitcoin protocol transmissions start with a specific magic number. For some reason Satoshi Nakomoto picked 0xD9B4BEF9 as his magic number.
I can't help wondering why.
If you choose this magic number as a Bitcoin private key, the public key you get in standard base58 format is 17AUGpBwAP5y5ptb1ksc8HWVv6XvNh5Ary. Perhaps Satoshi Nakamoto picked his Bitcoin magic number at random. Perhaps he also chose to prefix Bitcoin addresses with 1 at random.
Or perhaps 17 AUG is somehow significant to him. (Also note that bitcoin.org was registered on 18 August).
Is 17 August the day of Satoshi's birthday? Is it the day on which he came up with the concept of Bitcoin?
Or am I just fueling conspiracy theories?
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