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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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Post by seoaeu »

koolba wrote: post #47
davmar wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

A couple billion dollars divided by the number of houses in LA... actually wouldn't add that much value to the housing prices. After all, the total assessed value of real estate in the county is about $1.7 trillion.

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

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Post by fairity »

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…

Well, to start with, you're exaggerating. His life will meaningfully change (perhaps for the worse, by his standards), but his life won't be "destroyed" -- at least not by any reasonable standard. There are plenty of well-known billionaires who are perfectly happy.

To put this another way: is the search for knowledge immoral, if discovering that knowledge will inadvertently harm a person? That's sort of a deep question -- one which doesn't have a definitive answer, but your comment preaches as though it did.

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

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Post by bcrosby95 »

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…

Paparazzi don't care about Satoshi. Neither does the public, which is why the paparazzi doesn't.

He might have a person or two recognize him in a month. Most of them would never approach him.

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

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Post by alphabet9000 »

tsywke44 wrote: post #10

Is 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.

the term is 'liberating'

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

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Post by dilyevsky »

hwers wrote: post #30
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.

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.

Embarrassed is one thing, at this point he’d be putting himself in mortal danger

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

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Post by vmception »

jcpham2 wrote: post #49
vmception wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

yeah, I have, there are so many ways to elevate or downrank any altrustic version of Satoshi, or a dead/hiding Satoshi, or an incompetent Satoshi that lost private keys, since its also possible for there to already be an extremely rich Satoshi that doesn't have any incentive to look back

its all fruitless to speculate

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

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Post by [deleted] »

seoaeu wrote: post #61
koolba wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

A couple billion dollars divided by the number of houses in LA... actually wouldn't add that much value to the housing prices. After all, the total assessed value of real estate in the county is about $1.7 trillion.

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