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I always thought it was J Orlin Grabbe I figured he learned some lessons from Digital Monetary Trust during late 1990's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orlin_Grabbe https://www.hermetic.ch/crypto/kalliste/money1.htm https://www.hermetic.ch/crypto/kalliste/money2.htm https://page.math.tu-berlin.de/~kant/teaching/hess/krypto-ws... His textbook "International financial markets" has some C++ code. "What forbids us t…
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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…
Which “weird unknown hardware”. Early in Bitcoin, you could just mine bitcoin with any CPU — you still can.
A.) That’s a possibility.
B.) As someone mentioned already, this doesn’t make sense from a trust and security standpoint. Yet discarding this possibility doesn’t prove that (A) is what really happened.
It's Nick Szabo. He uses his initials for his Pseudonyms (N.S) Nakamoto Satoshi = Bitcoin Nicolas Saberhagen = Monero
It was in fact, Len Sassaman. From anonymous remailers and his penchant for anonymously released work back in the mailing lists, to MojoNetwork with Bram. His British spelling, his time zone abroad when working in academia and posting online. His circle. Before he committed suicide due to his neurological issues and loss of passion for life, Satoshi last said “I’ve moved on to other things and probably won’t be aroun…
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1. Satoshi has proven they had tight skills at keeping their identify secret. 2. If Satoshi were from the US, the easiest misdirection would be to pretend to be British. Learning the spelling and grammatical differences is not hard (or maybe test against a British spelling/grammar checker). Making sure you appear to be in a different timezone is basic operational security. 3. I would expect references to be intention…
You sound like a person that wants to believe that Satoshi Nakamoto is/was American.
Nigerians, for example, follow this standard and they have 4 times the population of the UK.
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.
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…
Was he so convinced that Bitcoin would be a killer app and thought he should hide since day 1?
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> 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 evolution of those ideas," said Musk, adding, "he claims not to be Nakamoto ... but he seems to be the one more responsible for the ideas behin…
> Why do Elon Musk's speculations have any credibility here? It's not his field, and even in his field he has a track record of making confident public statements that turn out to be wildly wrong. Actually it's very much his field. Elon Musk was one of the founders of X.com which eventually merged to become PayPal. He was interested in digital currency since the '90s and has been active in the cryptocurrency space as…
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The most likely explanation I've read is that Szabo was involved on the Bitcoin project, at the behest of US Intelligence (perhaps team lead, working within a defined set of goals - it's speculation for now). Bitcoin is a very effective means of destabilizing currencies and extracting wealth out of non-friendly areas, so for the US Intelligence community it is a boon. Szabo later went on to improve on the concept wit…
That doesn’t make sense.
The reverse DNS of the IP address mentioned is: h-68-164-57-219.lsan.ca.dynamic.globalcapacity.com according to SecurityTrails. The article also gives the following information: - HOST DETAILS: H-68-164-57-219.LSANCA54.DYNAMIC.COVAD.NET - IP Address: 68.164.57.219 The IP address is within a /16 block owned by Megapath, a Los Angeles hosting provider.