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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 rbanffy »

brador wrote: post #52
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…

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?

> It would take less than 5 minutes

I wouldn't keep the keys to US$ 500 million on my laptop's hard drive.

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

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Post by tinkerrr »

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.

Your prejudice against "Bitcoin community" is quite telling, given the fact that it took the Bitcoin community less than 2 hours to disprove the supposed proof and very few in the "Bitcoin community" would consider Wright one of their own.

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

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Post by jbmorgado »

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.

I'm sorry, but only the people that feel the need to follow something as some kind of religion or philosophy really need to attribute the adjectives "hatred" or "love" to some kind of technology.

The rest of the world at large (EDIT: that knows about bitcoin as sub intended by the rest of the sentence) that is not part of the bitcoin cult, looks at the thing for its technological prowess - or lack of it - and mostly sees it as a cryptographic experiment gone right and a financial experiment gone very wrong.

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

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Post by r3bl »

celticninja wrote: post #6

Dude's a liar. After everything else he has done this is the simplest step which requires no extra burden on him. He has already claimed to be SN, the only reason not to follow through is because he cannot and could never have. Therefore he is just another pretender to the throne.

And let us not forget that the doctorate degree that he's bragging about so much that he put it in his domain is completely made up, as discovered by Forbes when they asked the college about it.

(Warning: Adblock dection) http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/12/11/bitcoi...

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

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Post by snitko »

jbmorgado wrote: post #103
snitko wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm sorry, but only the people that feel the need to follow something as some kind of religion or philosophy really need to attribute the adjectives "hatred" or "love" to some kind of technology. The rest of the world at large (EDIT: that knows about bitcoin as sub intended by the rest of the sentence) that is not part of the bitcoin cult, looks at the thing for its technological prowess - or lack of it - and mostly…

Don't speak for most people. Most people know nothing about Bitcoin just yet. Can you be more specific about where the financial experiment of Bitcoin has gone wrong and why?

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

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Post by nacs »

nsajko wrote: post #92
sktrdie wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand this, but there's also the dimension where his actions, whether true or not, are also damaging other people (Gavin's reputation is on the line). We'd all be more worried for him if he wasn't so blatantly causing harm to other people's reputation. Obviously he could suffer from severe mental illness, which combines elements of harming others and self harm, but as a society I think we should worry more abo…

Andresen (and Matonis) themselves should be considered responsible for the harm to their own reputations no?

If someone gets scammed by a con-artist, would you blame the victim there too?

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

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Post by nihonde »

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…

Yes, certainly we should sympathize with this person who is behaving in a confusing way.

Even if he made a calculated decision to manipulate the news media here, the blame must be shared by the journalists who promoted the story, and to an extent, the portion of the audience that was simply looking for an easy answer and a satisfying resolution.

At the end of the day, the whole lot of us should be responsible for being skeptical enough to prevent a destructive person from turning their personal issues into a global crisis.

Many people stepped up to debunk this story quite readily. It was the mainstream media that was really exacerbating the situation.

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