Size does matter

There is a fascinating story on the front page of the Financial Times today concerning Bitcoin. You will recall that the founder of the virtual currency has always been known by the name Satosho Nakamoto, a pseudonym for either one or possibly several shadowy computer wizards lying low somewhere in the world. It now seems that the founder was indeed one man whose real name is, in fact, Satosho Nakamoto and he lives quite openly in Los Angeles. So far so unsurprising.

The real revelation as far as readers of this blog will be concerned is that Nakamoto is a model railway enthusiast. Not only that, but his motivation for creating the digital money was his annoyance at foreign exchange charges whenever he ordered trains from the UK. Now, perhaps wargamers might not feel particularly close to model railway enthusiasts, but I suspect that the general public might lump us all together and that therefore we should perhaps take the opportunity to exercise some bragging rights. Modelmakers united at the forefront of the tech revolution.

Someone, a woman for sure, once said "The reason that men like to make models is because they think that if they miniaturise the world they will be able to control it". The female view is quite the opposite; as evidenced by Georgia O'Keefe "I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty".