When signing up for the P2P Foundation forum in early 2009, Satoshi chose his date of birth as April 5, 1975. The date is not random, and the year is not either.
April 5
In the depths of the Great Depression, and only three days into his presidency, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt publicly declared a national emergency on March 3, 1933. Congress quickly affirmed the new president’s proclamation by passing the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 only six days later.
On April 5, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, forbidding “the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States.” The executive order was made under the authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, as amended by the Emergency Banking Relief Act in March 1933.
The order required all persons to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, all but a small amount of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates owned by them to the Federal Reserve in exchange for $20.67 per troy ounce.
Under the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, a violation of the order was punishable by fine up to $10,000 (equivalent to $249,000 in 2025), up to ten years in prison, or both.
Roosevelt’s rationale behind the confiscation of gold was simple: the Great Depression was an ongoing period of economic deflation and stagnation, and he sought to restart the economy by inflating the currency and increasing the money supply.
This did not happen in Soviet Russia or any other Communist country. This happened in the land of the free.
If you allow the government to override your property rights in emergencies, it will declare emergencies to override your property rights.
1975
The year chosen by Satoshi is not random either as previously mentioned. And it has to do with the EO 6102 too.
On December 31, 1974, with Executive Order 11825, President Gerald Ford repealed the Executive Order 6102, as Congress restored US citizens’ right to own gold, making 1975 the first year US citizens could freely own gold again.
So Satoshi’s birthday combines the day gold was confiscated with the year gold ownership was restored. A quiet statement about monetary sovereignty, hidden in a signup form. Although it is not a confirmed fact, it is widely accepted speculation as the connection seems too perfect to be just coincidence.