It’s pretty remarkable he’s been able to keep secret for this long.
Possibly passed away… it would be hard for anyone to resist the amount of money his early coin holding is now worth.
That or they nuked the private key
Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
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Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Possibly passed away… it would be hard for anyone to resist the amount of money his early coin holding is now worth.
There are enough stories like the 10,000 BTC pizza and lost hard drives it's entirely plausible he doesn't have that early coin any more.
I may be wrong but aren’t their a significant amount held from day 1 that haven’t been moved?
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#13Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#14I feel like Hal Finney and Nick Szabo were the two people who seem plausible and the fact that Hal and Satoshi were on different IP addresses that day seems to me like it's not Hal.
So for me it feels pretty much settled that Satoshi is Szabo.
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#15It’s pretty remarkable he’s been able to keep secret for this long.
Possibly passed away… it would be hard for anyone to resist the amount of money his early coin holding is now worth.
I think somebody smart enough to invent Bitcoin seems likely to have been smart enough to mine coins on a separate account, knowing he would never be able to touch the genesis wallet. I think Satoshi is alive and well and enjoying his riches. Good for them
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#16Van Nuys, Los Angeles, CA was where the IP was located.
> IP Address: 68.164.57.219
> IP Block: 68.164.57.128 – 68.164.57.255
> Reverse DNS: h-68-164-57-219.lsan.ca.dynamic.megapath.net
> Host: Covad Communications. Van Nuys, CA, USA
> Location: Van Nuys, CA, USA
Could have even been something like Satoshi wasn't on his normal setup at the time and it slipped through. Maybe on vacation or a wireless connection that connected near there. Or the IP lookup was even slightly off and they were in Sherman Oaks or anything really. Sometimes even wireless connections can appear to come from an entirely different state based on the network. The IP could have also been spoofed or temporary.
Covad Communications was the 16th biggest ISP at the time and then "Covad was acquired a by private equity firm, Platinum Equity, in April 2008. In 2010, it was sold to U.S. Venture Partners, which merged Covad, and Speakeasy into MegaPath." [1]
It appears when this IP connected (Jan 2009) it was owned by the private equity firm Platinum Equity [2].
The IP was definitely logged in Los Angeles, beyond that it could be anything.
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#17Is there a term for this, where a person discovers something extremely interesting, but doesn’t know the proper channels to make the knowledge public? In this case, releasing the info on a random spammy looking WP blog.
It feels like an ARG, like Daniel Mullins is going to release a game in a few years that uses something in this blog as the key for a cypher.
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are enough stories like the 10,000 BTC pizza and lost hard drives it's entirely plausible he doesn't have that early coin any more.
I may be wrong but aren’t their a significant amount held from day 1 that haven’t been moved?
If money didn’t move, that may be because the owner didn’t want it to move, or because they couldn’t move it bascule they lost the access key.
From an outsider’s perspective, both look 100% identical.
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#19Anyone have an 2009 vintage geo-IP table? (the current mapping doesnt mean a lot)
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are enough stories like the 10,000 BTC pizza and lost hard drives it's entirely plausible he doesn't have that early coin any more.
I may be wrong but aren’t their a significant amount held from day 1 that haven’t been moved?
To be clearer: that people would give away 10k of them to buy a pizza indicates back then they were seen as essentially worthless, meaning you'd probably not take much care to preserve the ones you mined for a while while playing with the software you wrote.