Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016) • Hacker News Board

Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)

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Post by xqoiu » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 7:18 PM UTC

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 wrote: post #7

EDIT: Please explain in the comments - because I seriously do not understand that - why on earth you are downvoting this!? You're advocating something cruel. WTF? What is the problem about saying "leave a person alone who apparently WANTS to be left alone?". You're advocating stalking. The people who trying to figure out who Satoshi is and make it public should realize this: What they're effectively doing is trying t…

Example: Warren Buffett's personal security budget

> Keeping the boss safe has cost [Berkshire] an average of US$339,000 a year since 2008, or US$4.4 million in total.

https://amp.scmp.com/magazines/style/luxury/article/3126736/...

Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)

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Post by pseudalopex » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 7:18 PM UTC

edf13 wrote: post #12

ceejayoz wrote: post #8

Earlier 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?

A lost key would explain it. Maybe that was your point.

Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 7:19 PM UTC

spir wrote: post #15

edf13 wrote: post #6

Earlier 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.

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

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Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)

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Post by dghlsakjg » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 7:19 PM UTC

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 wrote: post #7

EDIT: Please explain in the comments - because I seriously do not understand that - why on earth you are downvoting this!? You're advocating something cruel. WTF? What is the problem about saying "leave a person alone who apparently WANTS to be left alone?". You're advocating stalking. The people who trying to figure out who Satoshi is and make it public should realize this: What they're effectively doing is trying t…

I say this only partially in jest: not just harassed, but harassed by crypto nerds

Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)

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Post by triceratops » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 7:21 PM UTC

xqoiu wrote: post #21

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 wrote: post #7

EDIT: Please explain in the comments - because I seriously do not understand that - why on earth you are downvoting this!? You're advocating something cruel. WTF? What is the problem about saying "leave a person alone who apparently WANTS to be left alone?". You're advocating stalking. The people who trying to figure out who Satoshi is and make it public should realize this: What they're effectively doing is trying t…

Example: Warren Buffett's personal security budget > Keeping the boss safe has cost [Berkshire] an average of US$339,000 a year since 2008, or US$4.4 million in total. https://amp.scmp.com/magazines/style/luxury/article/3126736/...

No sarcasm, that honestly sounds pretty cheap. About the price of a mid-level FAANG SWE.

Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)

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Post by pdevr » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 7:21 PM UTC

For whatever it is worth, Dorian Nakamoto (whom Leah Goodman claimed to be "The Face Behind Bitcoin"[1]) stays nearby - within the realm of possibility :)

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/face-behind-bitcoin-2479...

Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)

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Post by servytor » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 7:23 PM UTC

edit: krapp below me is right, I AM AN IDIOT. I just ran it through an anagram website and trusted it without even checking.

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I always thought Satoshi Nakamoto was an anagram.

Antonomasias ~ Satoshi Nakamoto

Antonomasias: the substitution of an epithet or title for a proper name (e.g., the Bard for Shakespeare).

So it seems like a play on words, because Satoshi Nakamoto is a real name, and therefore a group might have wanted the creator to have a human name.

Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)

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Post by VWWHFSfQ » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 7:24 PM UTC

dghlsakjg wrote: post #24

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 wrote: post #7

EDIT: Please explain in the comments - because I seriously do not understand that - why on earth you are downvoting this!? You're advocating something cruel. WTF? What is the problem about saying "leave a person alone who apparently WANTS to be left alone?". You're advocating stalking. The people who trying to figure out who Satoshi is and make it public should realize this: What they're effectively doing is trying t…

I say this only partially in jest: not just harassed, but harassed by crypto nerds

Or harassed by that supposed journalist who tried to expose that old guy she tracked down just because he was Japanese and was formerly some kind of engineer

Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)

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Post by petertodd » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 7:24 PM UTC

"In the Jan of 2009 when Hal and Satoshi were working on Bitcoin Alpha version, Hal encountered an error with the software and he posted the debug log to the mailing list."

The "dox" assumes that only three people were using Bitcoin at the time, and thus one of them must be Satoshi. That's a bad assumption, as Bitcoin was publicly available at that time, and was announced on the public cryptography mailing list, and we know for a fact that a few people tried it out early on.

The IRC initial seeding mechanism was _not_ mandatory to use, let alone full time. So it wouldn't be surprising at all if Satoshi wasn't using it.

"This is not a TOR exit node which implies that this is the IP address used by Satoshi on 2009-01-10 and he was in Van Nuys on this day"

It's not a TOR exit node in 2016, when this article is published. That doesn't tell us anything about 2009.

Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)

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Post by hwers » Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 7:25 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #8

edf13 wrote: post #6

Earlier 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.

It would be funny if he's just a normal engineer somewhere who did this as a quick side project and won't come out as the creator because he's too embarrassed that he lost the keys.