The Da Vinci Code - Bitcoin's True Oracle

I guess I'm not really surprised, after all we've been participating on a version of this very behavior for as long as we've developed social structures. It's necessary for our ability to cooperate at scale to have leaders, visionaries and of course oracles, people that know what is going to happen.

In case you are wondering, it's not a nickname, his name is actually Davinci which I sincerely find fascinating if I'm to be honest. As it turns out he's been around for a long long time, and for one reason or another flown completely under the radar. Recently however he's been discovered so to speak, by the more mainstream crypto world, if that is even a thing, and his youtube channel has surged past 38k subs in a matter of weeks.

I've taken the time to watch some of his videos and I have to say that he is the living proof of what I keep on talking about, consistency. Not only has he been into crypto since the early, early days (pre 1USD BTC, AFAIK), but he's been constantly researching and studying the markets, the projects and it's talking heads, to the point that he actually predicted the Mt Gox fiasco months prior to the events.

As you might imagine, there are plenty of rumors around him at this very moment, and there is a considerable amount of people who believe that Davinci is actually Satoshi. Funnily enough, there is enough circumstancial evidence to sustain such claim, but of course, it's just circumstancial and nothing else. I was also happy to find out that he's a developer himself, and has a project of his own up in the works, in other words, he's building on top of the bear market.

Now that he's had a giant spotlight shinning right in his face, he's also found himself in a lot of pressure to give his new audience more of the tasty predictions, a mistake in my personal opinion that we as a community might be making. You see, it makes very little sense to put so many expectations on someone who is undeniable human and thus prone to make mistakes, but I understand why people are looking for their new oracle to make them feel good and allow them to cope with the bear market a little longer.

Before anyone accuses me of being negative or disliking Davinci unfairly, let me say that this is not my intention at all, I'm simply trying to inject some sanity back into the picture and remind everyone that there is no such thing as true oracles, and your financial decisions should not be made solely on the words of one particular individual.

That being said, I appreciate Davinci quite a bit, he is quite intelligent, well spoken and most of all lives with both feet planted on the ground. This of course explains in a non climatic way, why he has been right so many times in the past, since he does not seem to be a man too controlled by emotions and greed.

In a recent interview he also spoke about his progression from being a Bitcoin Maximalist, to someone who actually enjoys and supports other projects. At the end of the day, he had to succumb to notions of free markets and healthy competition, as we all do given enough time. One of the things however that caught my eye, or my ear to be more exact, was his mentioning of STEEM as one of the alt coins he likes, and of course expressed his reasoning. Not taking into account that the interviewer made some incorrect assertions regarding STEEM's inflation, the strong points of an immutable blockchain that serves a social hub for communication was clearly made.

Not to buy into the whole oracle idea, but so far he's not been wrong about BTC, maybe he's not wrong about STEEM either.