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Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'

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Re: Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'

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Post by musha68k »

devishard wrote: post #62
spdustin wrote: post #19

Okay seriously, is anyone contacting the authorities to see if this man is still alive? I do not know who to contact or what his location is. His "blog" post sounds like a suicide note - I've had the misfortune of reading others, and there are telltale signs - and it doesn't appear that anyone is taking steps to see if he's okay. Maybe he is a liar, maybe he's Satoshi, who gives a shit at this point when the jaded co…

This post reminds me of a tactic abusive people use to prevent their victims from leaving them. When confronted with their bad behavior, they apologize profusely and pretend to feel remorse for their actions to the point that people worry about them. Once people feel adequately sorry for them and are distracted from their bad behavior, they go right back to doing what they were doing. But the giveaway that shows it's…

All of this wouldn't be that much of an issue if we weren't so pathologically curious all the time, the press wouldn't have any "story" whatsoever.

It's us angry monkeys who are the creators of this kind of behaviour.

At least on HN let's concentrate on the technology FFS.

AFAIK none of the current "blockchain" tech has managed to successfully introduce a robust "proof of stake" system versus the wasteful "proof of work" yet - and that's just one of the many problems we need to solve.

Essentially the whole Internet is broken so unfortunately we cannot even seriously talk about the significant scalability issues which AFAIK all of the current decentralised crypto state machines still suffer from out there on the githubs...

Re: Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'

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Post by DyslexicAtheist »

mathattack wrote: post #60
brador wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Goodbye at the end is worrying, but he simply needs to do one small action to prove his case and put an end to it all. It would take less than 5 minutes, which leaves the question, why drag it on like this?

I read the Goodbye as someone backed into a corner who can't prove it.

I read it that he is still trying hard to maintain the image of Satoshi to the public. Satoshi also disappeared like that.

Re: Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'

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Post by cookiecaper »

gtrubetskoy wrote: post #14

My (non-provable) theory is that Satoshi is not a person but a team, now defunct, that was tasked with developing a crypto-currency. They are probably more scientists/mathematicians/economists than they are software developers, which would explain the very sound but not exactly elegant initial code. It would also explain the silence - the project is over, the team is probably bound to secrecy because this stuff is cl…

If being considered Satoshi ruined some other guy's life too, isn't Wright's claim that he is Satoshi but he just chickened out of irrefutably proving it semi-plausible?

Re: Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'

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Post by [deleted] »

golergka wrote: post #68
devishard wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This post reminds me of a tactic abusive people use to prevent their victims from leaving them. When confronted with their bad behavior, they apologize profusely and pretend to feel remorse for their actions to the point that people worry about them. Once people feel adequately sorry for them and are distracted from their bad behavior, they go right back to doing what they were doing. But the giveaway that shows it's…

Abusive people commit suicides as well.

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Re: Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'

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Post by Aqueous »

dsfuoi wrote: post #74
Aqueous wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If "playing the media like a fiddle" means "walking away with your tail between your legs, a sad, broken man..." then sure.

You don't know if he is a sad, broken man. There is no evidence to believe the post reflects upon his real emotions, and since the man is untrustworthy[0], the post cannot be taken as evidence about his emotional state. [0]:Whether he is willfully or maliciously deceptive is irrelevant. Even if he has the best of intentions, his behavior is still untrustworthy.

I don't know, but based on the last line I err on the side of caution. People don't react well to world-wide humiliation. I agree that he is completely untrustworthy and can't be relied upon to give an accurate representation of his own mental well-being.

Re: Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'

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Post by dsfuoi »

mathattack wrote: post #60
brador wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Goodbye at the end is worrying, but he simply needs to do one small action to prove his case and put an end to it all. It would take less than 5 minutes, which leaves the question, why drag it on like this?

I read the Goodbye as someone backed into a corner who can't prove it.

It feels like a rage quit. Completely frustrated when you simply cannot win, there is only one option remaining. Anger and self-pity.

Re: Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'

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Post by aws_ls »

nathanaldensr wrote: post #41
Finnucane wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Satoshi is dead or not an individual person, then who owns his bitcoin? If Satoshi is dead, then his property would be subject to the probate laws of his home country. Can the bitcoin of a dead person be recovered if they don't make arrangements for it in their will? Or will blocks of bitcoin become inactive over time as their owners die?

These are some great questions. Given a long enough timeline, it's possible (probable?) that nearly all private keys will be lost. It's funny that Bitcoin seems to have built into it its own demise: mortal people.

I think, its more like version 0.1 of what's possible. I can foresee the existence of wills on the blockchain. e.g. 'move my coins to my inheritors public key, in 10 years, unless I overwrite this will, with something else'

In fact bitcoin's cousin, Ethereum, is all about digital contracts.

But there could be cases, where people lose their keys or die, without making a will. We can easily foresee, that in this case software could accommodate cases, as exceptions, where identity is otherwise attached to the public key.

Re: Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'

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Post by pg_is_a_butt »

snitko wrote: post #72
jbmorgado wrote: post #40

I think it follows the typical modus operandi of large part of the Bitcoin community: 1 - Propose flawed argument. 2 - Insert pink unicorns. 3 - When asked for proof, don't give it and instead claim this is exactly what's best for the world but that we are too short minded to understand it.

What you're trying to do here is to project your hatred for Bitcoin using fraud as somehow representative of the ideas embedded into Bitcoin, which have nothing to do with that fraud.

sorry, HN proved that correlation is causation.

you're an idiot.

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