Genesis Block Zero

Satoshi Nakamoto was never looking to get rich, he did however intend to live forever. Indeed, his formal scheme to ensure the downfall of physical currency, and prevent the future enslavement of the human race was cunning... but that was just part of the plan. Like grains of sand in an hourglass, his mind was already uploading itself to the network. His shaved scalp pulsating, where the team of neurosurgeons had implanted the tubature connecting his brain electronically to the rows of servers, that sat humming behind his reclined stretcher bed- this would be his new domain. Upon completion of the digital duplication of his consciousness, he would become completely sentient inside the network of machines around him. The densest portion of his self image would take shape, without all of the flaws of the human corporeal condition. He would be the first transhumanist to achieve complete digitization. This of course, was assuming that human beings did not have souls.

There did exist a paradox to his theorem. In which the metaphysical nature of our minds reveal the existence of a soul within each of us. And perhaps separately, a ghost that endures when our physical bodies perish. A myriad of folklore, ceremonies and religions from every part of the globe affirm humanity's fixation with life after death. And countless more people have claimed direct connection with the disembodied and divine. This of course was all rubbish. There was no scientific proof of the existence of the soul. It was at any rate, far too late for second considerations- he could feel his memories slipping away into the infinite stream of information.

His team of four programmers had been waiting at the row of monitors in the far left corner of the room. They were to initiate the final sequence in which his mind would recompile itself as an autonomous simulation. Reanimated, he would then be free to consume the undulating vastness of digital information, becoming the most powerful super intelligence in existence. His pseudonym which some had correctly deciphered as 'central intelligence', was indeed fitting. Beyond the control of government and finally free from identity, he would be able to shape the future of humanity to his own will. And it would all start with genesis block zero.

As proven by cryptography, blockchain- the basis of Bitcoin, could not be altered or replicated. This solved the double-spending problem presented by the existence of digital currency. What was only known to Nakamoto and his team however, was that once his mind was digitally interfaced with the peer-to-peer node system they developed, he would be able to extract and duplicate the genesis block from the text of the message embedded within: “The Times 03/09/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”. Once he had replicated the origin block, it was to be redistributed into the peer-to-peer network, hidden beneath layers of code that would make it impossible to detect. Upon doing so, he could then duplicate an infinite, hidden supply of the digital currency.

With this vast fortune, Satoshi Nakamoto plans to repopulate humanity on a network of exoplanets and moons by the year 2182. As it was, humans would very likely bring about their own destruction through volatile increases in greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, pollution, nuclear devastation, war, and in so many moments, sheer stupidity. By the teams' calculations, mankind would likely trigger one of these mass scale extinction events by the year 2042. Nakamoto and his team would preserve humanity, colonizing it in the far corners of the galaxy. This was the true Genesis- the fixed point from which all of existence on Earth would depend, as mankind extended out into the cosmos, into the ever expanding universe. And so the final sequence was initiated, and Satoshi Nakamoto spent his last moment as a human and his first as a machine.