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Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
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Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
#42The identity seems to have been shared initially between 2 people. One of them being Craig Wright, the other is the genius Dave Kleinman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Kleiman Dave died years ago following depression, before releasing bitcoin he published papers on the topic of Cipher Block Chaining and similar cryptographic tech: https://www.davekleiman.com/ This has already been known for years. There were goo…
Craig Wright being Satoshi is unpopular opinion in the Bitcoin community but I think there is a good chance that he is indeed Satoshi or that he was a leader of Satoshi group.
I did some research on him and his past activities, and the things that I found on the Web and on the Internet Archive are somewhat compelling.
I will write it up sooner or later as a blog post(the clues that I found).
Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
#43The identity seems to have been shared initially between 2 people. One of them being Craig Wright, the other is the genius Dave Kleinman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Kleiman Dave died years ago following depression, before releasing bitcoin he published papers on the topic of Cipher Block Chaining and similar cryptographic tech: https://www.davekleiman.com/ This has already been known for years. There were goo…
Craig Wright is a fraud and there are numerous instances where people have caught him directly contradicting the opinions and factual assertions about code Satoshi wrote. Like a patent troll without any patent.
Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
#44Human beings are obsessed with narrative: x did y to z. This repeats everywhere - the identity of the characters is as important as the events themselves. I don’t know why this is, but I do know that it is much, much bigger than Bitcoin. It’s not about the billions of dollars, it’s not about the mystery. It’s because we are pack animals obsessed with hierarchy and cannot rest as organisms until we identify which peop…
Great answer, thank you for your perspective.
Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
#45It's like asking why historians care who was the author of some historical piece of art or literature. We mammals are curious, curiosity is driving evolution and innovation. The quest of understanding the world our us and beyond us never stops.
The quest of understanding the world around us*
Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
He hasn't spent anything. Do any countries have taxes on assets instead of income?
"Do any countries have taxes on assets instead of income?" Not applicable to this situation, but zakat in Islamic countries requires a 2.5% payment to the government, similar to a tithe. This is why many of the theocratic Islamic countries have 0% income tax. It's always applied to assets above a certain amount, but some places apply it on income as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates B…
You may have shone a light on the real point, here.
For as long as they're not taxed, robbed, or otherwise, people will continue to take confidence in the security of the protocol.
Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
#47For me it’s interesting because in the general case, nobody is perfect at opsec and eventually slips up. Satoshi is a super prominent counter-example.
Yes.
Either an absolute legend in the sec pub,
or powerful group(s) have incentive to retain the secret.
Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
#48The identity seems to have been shared initially between 2 people. One of them being Craig Wright, the other is the genius Dave Kleinman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Kleiman Dave died years ago following depression, before releasing bitcoin he published papers on the topic of Cipher Block Chaining and similar cryptographic tech: https://www.davekleiman.com/ This has already been known for years. There were goo…
Craig Wright being Satoshi is unpopular opinion in the Bitcoin community but I think there is a good chance that he is indeed Satoshi or that he was a leader of Satoshi group. I did some research on him and his past activities, and the things that I found on the Web and on the Internet Archive are somewhat compelling. I will write it up sooner or later as a blog post(the clues that I found).
I could buy that he's a straggler that was left to "muddy the waters" in search of the "one true" person (or group).
Would be interested in links to the most personally compelling evidence (in either direction), for those reading.
Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
#49Do people still care? This is the first time in a long time I've seen Satoshi being mentioned at all. Though admittedly I'm not big into crypto.
They care. A bunch of previously unseen by the public emails got released of them interacting with others thought to be candidates. I expect they’re dead, already captured by the American Stasi or is hiding very well from them.
Which faction of the American power structure do you believe both: 1. would actually want Satoshi, and 2. have the juice to do it?
Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
#50If Craig Wright is Satoshi he can claim it all as his intellectual property, which could be worth billions. If Satoshi remains a ghost, it belongs to everyone and it is whatever it is. I think mostly people only want to prove it isn't Craig Wright.
> he can claim it all as his intellectual property, which could be worth billions.
Let's pretend he does the impossible: what does this look like, in your opinion?