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Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)

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

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

the closest anagram i can make from “antonomasias” is:

Satosi nanamo

seems like a stretch, unless there’s more that i’m missing.

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

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Doesnt this mean that somewhere, buried deep in a a database, someone can run a query to see who had the IP address on that day, and assuming it is a private residence there is at least a chance that is SN?

Yeah but leaking such data from an ISP would be considered illegal.

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

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post #14

I 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.

He was on a podcast and misspoke saying he invented it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_z-vzkA0r4

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

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post #38

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

>I always thought Satoshi Nakamoto was an anagram. >Antonomasias ~ Satoshi Nakamoto Doesn't work. No H or K, too many N's.

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

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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…

> What they're effectively doing is trying to completely destroy someone's life just for them having written a piece of software.

Also, in the process, they could easily destroy someone else's life through a mistaken identification.

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

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post #37

Van 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 c…

So I went to https://anarchapulco.com/ in 2018. There I met a guy who claimed to know who Satoshi is. He said Satoshi was from LA, and that the keys to the wallet that hold all those unclaimed bitcoins are buried in a backyard in LA. Would be worth billions now. No idea if true.

If you think LA housing prices are crazy now, just wait till people start factoring in potential billions of dollars buried in the backyard.

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

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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…

> You're a prisoner of your money.

Moreover, all these claims of Satoshi having a lot of money are pretty much just speculation -- all they do is show that some early miner mined a few hundred thousand bitcoin. They don't show that miner is Satoshi, that's just a plausible guess because the people speculating know of few other early Bitcoin users. They also don't show that whomever mined those coins hasn't lost the keys for them.

Any person 'identified' as Satoshi may not actually be Satoshi anyways, people have shown that they're remarkably able to believe utter drivel.

So now imagine all the problems you listed but apply them to someone who isn't actually wealthy because because that early miner wasn't them, they're not Bitcoin's creator, or because the assets had been lost back when they were worth very little. They'd still be subject to all the assumptions and thus threats, but not be able to buy their way out of them to the extent that it's possible to do so-- e.g. they couldn't afford the multi-million dollar a year security.

(Someone might reply to you that if their problem was wealth they didn't want they could always dispose of it, but that just reduces to the problem above: people wouldn't believe they did so it wouldn't solve the problem, it would only remove the best tool they have to ameliorate it)

> They gave you a software for free which spawned a whole industry, they don't deserve to be harassed for that. If you don't like it then don't use it, but don't destroy the developer's life. Nobody forces you to use it

Not just that, the very premise and fundamental design of Bitcoin was to give its creator no particular control or authority over it. So their identity doesn't really matter. The fetishization of the identity of Bitcoin's creator is a stupendous act of missing the entire point.

People shouldn't delude themselves that they're not engaging in a mean and harmful act against someone who never caused them harm. It's gross and creepy. If Satoshi is still alive and wanted to be known, he would be. Not only did he expressly complain about the speculation about his identity when he was around (in the last message he sent before disappearing), his continued silence shows he isn't interested in now.

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

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Exactly. Anybody that mined those earlier blocks on the weird unknown hardware was also able to mine on known hardware under another identity. so A) Satoshi has other earnings, in bitcoin, that was held long enough to make Satoshi extremely rich, and sold under their normal known identity. While never needing to associate with the other identity. B) The private keys to the bitcoin mined in those original blocks were…

You seem like a guy that's read the studies/blogs on the Satoshi/genesis nonces

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

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The keys can move without the coins moving. Think of it like the ultimate Casascius coins. There's no way to know whether or not Satoshi cashed out. I can't find the thread, but I'm pretty sure Adam Back even said this on bitcointalk and said that that would be how he'd move the money if he were Satoshi.

That’s true, but if someone bought the keys, then they’d be more likely to start moving/spending the coins.
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