Ask HN: How has Satoshi Nakamoto been so good at opsec all this time? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How has Satoshi Nakamoto been so good at opsec all this time?

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Post by k__ » Sat, Jul 22, 2017, 11:17 PM UTC

Artlav wrote: post #9

I suspect he is either long dead or in prison. Another thing is, unlike people like Snowden he does not have much heat after him. He is a mystery, but that's it - looking for him is pointless, since it's not like he can do something governments want him to stop doing or have something governments want to seize from him. It would be like going after the parents of Osama Bin Laden - it's not like they could have told h…

Maybe they had an accident or something.

I mean good people die all the time, just like regular people...

Re: Ask HN: How has Satoshi Nakamoto been so good at opsec all this time?

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Post by amingilani » Sat, Jul 22, 2017, 11:17 PM UTC

rnhmjoj wrote: post #4

I don't remember how The FBI initially identified The Dread Pirate Roberts but they had to set up quite an operation to find conclusive proof and arrest him, including undercover agents and months of surveillance. Probably nobody has tried that hard to find Satoshi.

He used a personal email address in an old forum post when trying to recruit help building a censorship proof market place.

Re: Ask HN: How has Satoshi Nakamoto been so good at opsec all this time?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 23, 2017, 11:51 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: How has Satoshi Nakamoto been so good at opsec all this time?

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Post by BjoernKW » Sun, Jul 23, 2017, 9:16 PM UTC

Scott Adams of Dilbert fame once suggested this intriguing theory of Bitcoing being the work of a benevolent post-singularity AI: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/103051092096/how-the-robots-wil...

While perhaps not particularly likely I think he does have point. What better way to slowly but steadily as well as clandestinely introduce beneficial changes to human society than to create a decentralised currency in order to influence financial markets and the flow of capital?

Re: Ask HN: How has Satoshi Nakamoto been so good at opsec all this time?

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Post by phaus » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 1:52 AM UTC

rnhmjoj wrote: post #4

I don't remember how The FBI initially identified The Dread Pirate Roberts but they had to set up quite an operation to find conclusive proof and arrest him, including undercover agents and months of surveillance. Probably nobody has tried that hard to find Satoshi.

Somehow I don't think the guy that designed bitcoin is going to get caught using an email address with his real name to post programming 101 questions on stackoverflow.