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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?

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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.

>Would be interested in links to the most personally compelling evidence (in either direction), for those reading.

Search for Craig's blog posts and computer security newsletter groups where he was active 15-20 years ago; he talks about P2P networks, hashing(Craig discusses how SHA-1 is vulnerable and not secure anymore), statistics(Poisson distribution, the same statistical model that was mentioned by Satoshi in the Bitcoin whitepaper).

I found some tids and bits that he and "Satoshi" have in common, plus Satoshi used British English and Craig is an Australian. All of this means nothing but either Satoshi is dead or this Australian guy has something to do with Satoshi and Bitcoin because he wouldn't be pushing so hard as Satoshi persona if he was't involved with Bitcoin in one way or another.

Craig also said couple of years ago that he will share his bank statement of him buy the original bitcoin.org domain but he still didn't do it. Again this would be indirect proof but Satoshi signing his private keys won't be happening anytime soon(and anyone can sign keys if s/he steals them, again indirect proof).

Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?

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post #25

Bitcoin works because you can prove it mathematically without Satoshi's involvement. He made a quote in the recent email dump that reinforces this: "self-evident proof of the majority consensus”. [1] [1] https://twitter.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1760718747768087033 The world doesn't need Satoshi for Bitcoin to continue working. And so the reason people want to find his identity is because there exist people in the world…

That's probably the most ridiculous answer there is. 1. The chance that something like Bitcoin is a logical virus and being though of is.not that far fetched. All of it's tec was already here. 2. Just because people believe in Bitcoin and don't understand it doesn't make it fair. 3. People like to think about it because he is still the inventor even if his invention is responsible for a tremendous amount of CO2 and h…

"he should be very rich"?! (emphasis mine)

Also, out of curiosity since I'm here: what trust issue does Bitcoin not solve?

Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?

#53
post #16

I don't personally care about his identity. As a layman I think its cool that there's some mystery dude who built something cool, "valuable" (debatable), and then disappeared. I'd honestly be disappointed if his identity is ever revealed. Even worse would be if it turns out to be some d bag we all know lol.

There are a couple of "d bags we all know" on the tech/hacker side that would make for a very satisfying answer to this question.

Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?

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post #49

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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?

The SEC probably :)

Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?

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post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>Would be interested in links to the most personally compelling evidence (in either direction), for those reading. Search for Craig's blog posts and computer security newsletter groups where he was active 15-20 years ago; he talks about P2P networks, hashing(Craig discusses how SHA-1 is vulnerable and not secure anymore), statistics(Poisson distribution, the same statistical model that was mentioned by Satoshi in the…

computer security mailing list groups*

sry for mixing up the two

Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?

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post #52

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That's probably the most ridiculous answer there is. 1. The chance that something like Bitcoin is a logical virus and being though of is.not that far fetched. All of it's tec was already here. 2. Just because people believe in Bitcoin and don't understand it doesn't make it fair. 3. People like to think about it because he is still the inventor even if his invention is responsible for a tremendous amount of CO2 and h…

"he should be very rich"?! (emphasis mine) Also, out of curiosity since I'm here: what trust issue does Bitcoin not solve?

Bitcoin fans say it solves 'the' trust issue.

If you do something on the block chain with your Bitcoins it's save.

Just that the only thing it does is making sure you can send or retrieve a Bitcoin securely but that you need other security mechanism to make sure the trade is protected gets ignored.

Like every trade involving something outside the chain is still not save.

Buying Bitcoin, selling Bitcoin, trading a Bitcoin for a service.

Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?

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post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>Would be interested in links to the most personally compelling evidence (in either direction), for those reading. Search for Craig's blog posts and computer security newsletter groups where he was active 15-20 years ago; he talks about P2P networks, hashing(Craig discusses how SHA-1 is vulnerable and not secure anymore), statistics(Poisson distribution, the same statistical model that was mentioned by Satoshi in the…

Compelling evidence is making the price go up so keep talking about satoshi or take my advice and buy whatever is in the red and cheep right now because if this digital money stuff is legit than we are all wealthy

Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?

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post #5

Do 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.

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