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Bitcoin wasn't anything extraordinarily revolutionary; it built upon others' work over decades of collaborative progress, and introduced few truly novel ideas. Very impressive work…

It's common for older writers to insert two spaces after a full-stop. In fact, go through the cypherpunk mailing list (and many others) and you'll see it was the norm. As for Satos…

Reality is seldom as fun as people's theories.

We also "know" it's Hal Finney, James A. Donald, Elon Musk, Paul Le Roux, Adam Back, ...

Or he doesn't have the keys or never owned the wallets attributed to him.

People love a mystery. And people love to solve mysteries. Don't look for any deeper motivation than that.

The British English could be a misdirection. Satoshi was always quite inconsistent, sometimes using US spellings ('color', 'check', 'optimize'). One that always stood out to me was…

The early Bitcoin client could send Bitcoins to an IP address. That's all he meant, no?

Or he just lost the keys. Or the analysis is wrong and those aren't his wallets; it was never definitive.

> Among people who try to guess Satoshi's identity, there is also a surprising bias toward fame or at least well-known people. Very true. Every time I see people seriously propose …

The hyphenating patterns are particularly curious, to me. Some supposed idiosyncrasies ('bugfix', for example) are just standard renderings amongst programmers/tech types; using th…

> I wonder, based on the large number of distinct hyphenation errors, whether Satoshi is even from the UK or the US. How many native English speakers are truly familiar with hyphen…

My understanding is that a company's location is largely irrelevant; a company becomes subject to the GDPR when they handle EU citizens' data (or UK GDPR when it's UK citizens), an…

Agreed – you can never truly be completely "safe", but Tor remains the most privacy-preserving tool we've got. When people say they're distrustful of Tor (for various reasons) to t…

Fair enough. Was just curious. :)

It's true that a majority is from the US government through various funding schemes and grants. They're very transparent about their funding and ongoing efforts to diversify. But a…

Wait until you learn about the creation of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Better disconnect.

So was the Internet at DARPA (or its modern foundation). And the WWW at CERN. Tor's development team aren't on the payroll of the US gov't, and their funding comes from many source…

Timing attacks are a well-known weakness. There's a lot of research into timing attacks and proposed countermeasures. Also, it's just Tor – not 'TOR'. >Note: even though it origina…

We have a rough timeframe: "To the best of our knowledge, the attacks happened between 2019–2021." The hidden service targeted[0] had completely ceased to exist by April 2021, so t…

Why wouldn't you trust Tor? Do you mean you wouldn't trust it at all, or wouldn't trust it completely?

Yes. Why wouldn't it be? The fact that adversaries need to rely on zero-days, or people running massively outdated and unsupported software, strongly suggests the network is safe a…

It isn't a self-signed cert.

>More than 1/3 of the Tor servers are run by US Federal Govt Source? People repeat this claim and nobody every provides evidence.