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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)
#112"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…
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Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#113"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…
yeah, the leak is 2009-01-10, two days after Bitcoin 0.1 dropped
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#114I 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.
Nick Szabo has been potentially mentioned as Satoshi for sometime [1] due to him working on decentralized currencies since 1998 with Bit Gold [2]. Elon Musk mentioned Nick Szabo on Lex Fridman's podcast as Szabo was also doing Bit Gold prior and is heavy into crypto and currencies. [3] > "Obviously I don't know who created bitcoin ... it seems as though Nick Szabo is probably more than anyone else responsible for the…
I don't understand why, when satoshi used UK english very consistently, including quite obscure references tucked away in source code etc, and was active in GMT compatible hours (more so than US hours!) - nonetheless every theory ignores all this and has him being American.
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#115Doesnt 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?
The US Intelligence community knows who Satoshi is. After all, they created it to destabilize competitor currencies. Satoshi is likely a Project Name, not a person. Nobody else could laugh at the idea of wanting to cash in $70 billion.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> remains pseudonymous under the extreme pressure of thousands trying to de-anonymize him, that’s the only way we can really be sure that anonymization is still possible in the modern age. Other unwilling human beings aren't appropriate test subjects for your conjectures about security and privacy. If you'd like to test a security hypothesis, offer up yourself or your family for attack-- don't nominate other people.
see: > i agree with the sentiment, however, it’s wishful thinking. if you’re trying to persuade me that i shouldn’t use SN as an unwilling test subject, save your breath: i’m not engaged in any effort to de-anonymize him. his project is founded on adversarial mechanics within an extrajudicial (i.e. lawless) space: it’s naive to think those mechanics won’t bleed over from the project to its adjacencies. that’s the poi…
Thanks for clarifying.
Your comment still could be read as justifying "he was asking for it", or at least "he should have expected it". I'm not sure if that's what you intend, but I don't agree with that.
When Satoshi left Bitcoins were worth essentially nothing (and obviously when it was created). There is no shortage of example 'experts' from back then that were convinced that Bitcoin would always be worth nothing or nearly so. In such a state Bitcoin is just some random obscure open source P2P application (in fact, Wikipedia initially deleted the article on it exactly as such).
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with those private keys being sold off-net is that the buyer can never be sure the seller deleted every copy. Who would take that risk? And who would buy it and not use any of it? Even if the value tanks it'll still be a ton of money.
Correct, with all single signer ownership you can never be sure how many custodians there are So you’re right and we would never be able to prove that any amount has changed hands or not, only assume that others wouldn't take the risk
I think what they were trying to say was that buying them off chain would be extremely unfavorable as the buyer gains zero of the protections that a blockchain claims to offer in this case.
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#118"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…
As per LinuxBender's comment [1], ExoneraTor [2] tells us it hasn't been a TOR relay in 2009 either.
I think Szabo is the most likely Satoshi candidate. He seems to have disappeared from public view since March, despite being a prolific Twitter [2]. I hope he is doing well, chilling on a beach in a Caribbean island.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729498
[2]: https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html?ip=68.164.57....
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
No sarcasm, that honestly sounds pretty cheap. About the price of a mid-level FAANG SWE.
If you had to be constantly followed by security people the whole day, would your complete loss of privacy be alleviated by them being cheap? Include in the equation that Satoshi additionally likely is a person who puts a high value on privacy, given that they ensured to be anonymous up to now.
I think you misinterpreted the meaning of my comments. $339k is a bargain for Berkshire (or whoever pays it) considering who they're protecting. That's all.
Re: Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
#120Is 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.
So… What are the proper channels?