How did Martin Shkreli figure that out?
someone told him . likely someone who knows hal
Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?
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#102Came expecting a long convoluted argument, Craig Wright-style, but this is like one of those short papers that have the proof in the abstract.
It does not have a proof though.
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#103Can someone who knows more than me about the internals of bitcoin help me understand: 1) Is there a place on a blockchain explorer somewhere where I could find the signature that Shkreli has posted? I tried looking up the wallet address and found the transaction from Jan 2009, but I don't see that signature anywhere. 2) The reason I ask the first question is that I believe that if the private key is compromised, then…
Your reaction was my reaction, for what it’s worth. It seems like everyone more or less is suspecting the same thing. (Private key leaked, no way to backdate the hash, therefore this proof isn’t as newsworthy as it seems.)
On the other hand, if it does appear somewhere in the blockchain, it’s a pretty big scoop.
Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?
#104The most credible candidate is someone who was very familiar with and keen on its technology yet did not engage publicly in the first few years [1].
[1] https://chainbulletin.com/the-unmasking-satoshi-aftermath
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#105In case you wonder who Paul Le Roux is, here’s the Wikipedia page [0] and what I believe is the original investigation by Evan Ratliff [1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux [1]: https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind/
I worked with Paul before he went down the path of the criminal. He seemed really smart too bad he went bad. This would be in 1991 or 1992. I also worked with one of the programmers caught as part of the Madoff 5. I'm hoping that is all of my brushes with people who go bad.
From your experience with him, do you think he has the academic background to write the Bitcoin paper?
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#106I've always believed it is Nick Szabo.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know next to nothing about the internals of bitcoin, but based on a high-level understanding of public key cryptography: - 1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3 is the wallet address but can also be thought of as a public key. The owner of the wallet also has a private key corresponding to that public key. - HM7vpPSUbNsfDHRX6gv8xx...[etc] is a cryptographic signature generated by signing an arbitrary message using a p…
> What I don't understand is where the signature came from -- I do see a Jan 2009 transaction involving that address on various blockchain explorers, but that particular signature is nowhere to be found. This could absolutely just be me not understanding how all of this works, but in order for this to be "really big news" I think you'd have to show proof that the signature given was posted with the transaction back i…
Furthermore we know that the wallet spent coins in 2017, three years after Hal's death. Someone other than Hal had (has?) access to the private key for that address.
Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?
#109Anyone know where he got this info? Is there a previous source?
I don't know but Martin's claim just showed up on the Wikipedia page > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux
> On December 13, 2022, Martin Shkreli alleged that a message connected to a January 12, 2009 transaction sent to the Bitcoin wallet belonging to Hal Finney, who received the first ever Bitcoin transfer, revealed Le Roux as being the sender.[44] This claim was debunked in short order by Bitcoin developers such as Peter Wuille[45], and Greg Maxwell[46]. These individuals, along with other less known pointed out the poster of the signed message was not even competent enough to spell Le Roux's name correctly. In addition, the signature does not appear in the public blockchain.
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#1101. The signature was created using a private key that corresponds to the address "1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3". 2. 1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3 is Hal Finney's (Not Satoshi's) address. 3. Hal Finney passed away in 2014. 4. Some coins that belonged to that address were spent in 2017. [1] It appears that someone else (definitely not Hal) has the private key to that address. [1] https://www.blockchain.com/b…
I see. Are you implying whoever has access to Hal's wallet could have produced this signature after his death?
exactly. this has nothing to do with proving it is Santoshi, nor is it a hash collision.
All it means is multiple people have Hal's private key and somehow either Martin is one of them, or he was told to post this message.