I'm not sure whether I actually care if he is or if he isn't - there's just so much good material in this story: hidden super computers and theology degrees and all sorts of craziness. The only thing that could really improve it would be a link to Paul Le Roux!
Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
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Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. He was cryonized. Hopefully, the future makes it possible to resurrect him to life.
Alcor's competence, unfortunately, leaves a little to be desired. http://thebaffler.com/salvos/everybody-freeze-pein
I've been to their conferences, and am a member.
I agree they could do far better. I think they are doing the best they think they can do. I think the entire field got poisoned by defining itself in some kind of struggle in the 60s/70s against anti-cryo people, which is stupid.
IVF, organ banking, etc. are progressing nicely. The Russians are doing a great job on human cryo. My hope is that the Alcor preservations are still good enough today that recovery is possible, although it's likely a better preservation technique, causing less damage, might lead to a recoverable person at an earlier date (i.e. Alcor 2016 person is recoverable in 2100; RU-Cryo person cryopreserved with better technology and technique in 2020 is recoverable in 2070.)
I still think Alcor is better odds than box in the ground or being incinerated. For ~$1k/yr (membership + insurance), it's worth it to me, even if only to fund/etc. research.
Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#133It's kinda sad this is being reported by credible journals, it's super likely to be completely false. I'm glad on HN the link states it's just a claim, and that on the economist it's phrased as a question: 'is he Satoshi?' (the rule being in 99/100 cases, the answer is no.) But I've seen otherwise.
Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#134There's no real proof here that Craig is Satoshi. If he really wanted to prove it to us, he would need to sign a message saying 'Craig Wright is Satoshi signed 2016-05-02' using the genesis block key. Read his post: http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif... he goes into all sorts of details but then glosses over the fact that the arbitrary Sartre quote could have been signed by anyone at any poi…
Or he could just use the PGP key he used on the mailing list for months at the start of bitcoin's life.
Or donate some of the first blocks (s)he mined.
Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#135EDIT 2: Debunked! The signature in Wright's post is just pulled straight from a transaction on the blockchain. Convert the base64 signature from his post (MEUCIQDBKn1Uly8m0UyzETObUSL4wYdBfd4ejvtoQfVcNCIK4AIgZmMsXNQWHvo6KDd2Tu6euEl13VTC3ihl6XUlhcU+fM4=) to hex (3045022100c12a7d54972f26d14cb311339b5122f8c187417dde1e8efb6841f55c34220ae0022066632c5cd4161efa3a2837764eee9eb84975dd54c2de2865e9752585c53e7cce), and you get th…
Not 100% convinced yet! Though Wright has impressing command on crypto, just waiting for a signature from the monkey's original key!
Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#136This is a hoax I think. And also Gavin supporting it is weird. The Signature in the blog post, is, in fact a signature from this transaction: 828ef3b079f9c23829c56fe86e85b4a69d9e06e5b54ea597eef5fb3ffef509fe Relevant Reddit Comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hf4s2/craig_wrigh...
> This is a hoax I think. And also Gavin supporting it is weird. Is it?
>> Gavin supporting it is weird.
> Is it?
Apparently, not weird. From the Economist article:
"It pays, too, to bear in mind that Mr Wright’s outing will most likely be of benefit to those in the current bitcoin civil war who want to expand the block size quickly, whose number include Mr Matonis and Mr Andresen. Mr Wright says that if he could reinvent bitcoin, he would program in a steady increase of the block size. He also intends to publish mathematical proof that there is no trade-off between the mass adoption of the cryptocurrency and its remaining decentralised."
Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. He was cryonized. Hopefully, the future makes it possible to resurrect him to life.
Alcor's competence, unfortunately, leaves a little to be desired. http://thebaffler.com/salvos/everybody-freeze-pein
The article is really bad, full of ad-hominem against Alcor and cryonics and no actual argumentation. But you posted it to argue against Alcor's competence, and it does list a case where that was true.
Anyways, I don't recommend clicking, but here's the part where Alcor's competence is put into questoin.
>Within minutes of taking custody of the body, the bumbling Alcor team began experiencing a series of equipment failures. A temperature monitor didn’t work because, as it turned out, the batteries were dead. Shortly thereafter, their expensive mechanical chest-compression device stopped functioning. Then, having moved Suozzi’s body into a tub of ice, the Alcor team realized they’d forgotten to bring along a key piece of cooling equipment. Alcor’s after-action report, compiled from the haphazard “free-form” observations of an unnamed but “experienced” observer, determined that such mistakes could in the future be remedied by “the use of a checklist.”
> “Unfortunately,” the Cryonics report notes, “there was some confusion and disagreement regarding the ideal temperature at which to perform surgery.”
Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#138Maybe he is trying to get Nakamoto to out himself..? His claim is ridiculous.
Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#139The proof contains some strange bash commands, using & instead of &&: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11610192
Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#140I don't believe he would be so naive to publish this without having checked that matter with transaction 828ef3b079f9c23829c56fe86e85b4a69d9e06e5b54ea597eef5fb3ffef509fe before.