The tabs vs spaces thing is pretty conclusive. Really.
The fact that you say that means that it is a perfect tool for someone with knowledge of operational security and a desire to cover their tracks.
Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto
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#42I think there is some systematic reason why people like Satoshi, Buckethead, Banksy, etc are not uncovered. In each case, I doubt that it really is hard to figure out who they are. Maybe it is the way the press and social media work. You get as many clicks for a wild theory as you get for a properly researched opinion. As for Satoshi Nakamoto: The most obvious candidate seems to be Adam Back. His invention of proof o…
I don't know about the others, but Banksy has been uncovered. It's Robin Gunningham. People still like to say it's "unconfirmed" and "a rumour" but if you look at the evidence there is no real doubt.
So I guess part of the reason is that people love the mystery so much, as long as the suspect doesn't come out and say "yes it's me" then they'll just hang on to the mystery. To be honest even if Gunningham said "I am Banksy" I suspect people would still say "but is he really? Nobody knows!"
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#43I think there is some systematic reason why people like Satoshi, Buckethead, Banksy, etc are not uncovered. In each case, I doubt that it really is hard to figure out who they are. Maybe it is the way the press and social media work. You get as many clicks for a wild theory as you get for a properly researched opinion. As for Satoshi Nakamoto: The most obvious candidate seems to be Adam Back. His invention of proof o…
I don't know about the others, but Banksy has been uncovered. It's Robin Gunningham. People still like to say it's "unconfirmed" and "a rumour" but if you look at the evidence there is no real doubt. So I guess part of the reason is that people love the mystery so much, as long as the suspect doesn't come out and say "yes it's me" then they'll just hang on to the mystery. To be honest even if Gunningham said "I am Ba…
Wikipedia says "Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation."
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there another Buckethead that I'm not aware of, because the one that I'm thinking of has a pretty well-established identity.
Oh, interesting. So he only keeps his face secret, not his identity? I remember reading an interview with Ozzy Osbourne who said he refused to work with Buckethead because it spooked him that BH always kept a mask on, even when they talked in private.
You can also find some pictures of his face on Google if you just search his name. I'd say Buckethead is closer to Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo than he is to Banksy.
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#45I really wonder how nobody has looked into this deep enough: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/89532/how-did-na...
Or maybe law enforcement already did, and Satoshi is either quite more secretive, them, or dead.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A truly altruistic system would not confer such a huge advantage on early miners Bitcoin never claimed to be and is not altruistic. And the same can be said about almost all investments, you need information early, you need to judge the information correctly, and you need to move in. Same with bitcoin.
Is bitcoin a currency or investment? I would say neither but interesting to see it getting lumped in with investments.
Bitcoin is Schrödinger’s asset, in the sense that it is whatever it needs to be to counter the latest criticisms from non-believers.
For example, if you say that bitcoin has 7 tps and even with lightning will take decades to onboard everyone, it will become a store of value that you are supposed to buy and hold for long term. But if you point out how bitcoin has crazy volatility, it may become a currency that you don’t hold, just use to transact.
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#47I think there is some systematic reason why people like Satoshi, Buckethead, Banksy, etc are not uncovered. In each case, I doubt that it really is hard to figure out who they are. Maybe it is the way the press and social media work. You get as many clicks for a wild theory as you get for a properly researched opinion. As for Satoshi Nakamoto: The most obvious candidate seems to be Adam Back. His invention of proof o…
> As for Satoshi Nakamoto: The most obvious candidate seems to be Adam Back. His invention of proof of work, his biography, character, writing style and role as the CEO of the company behind the main wallet software all point to him.
Adam Back is obviously not Satoshi.
His level of writing or thinking is not even close to the level of Satoshi.
When asked what people should pay with when fees were high and Lightning Network wasn't complete, he seriously suggested people should just use tabs:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DHc81OL_hk4&feature=youtu.be&t...
This and other brainfarts... No way that he's Satoshi and people need to stop suggesting it.
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#48Is it possible ( novice with respect to blockchain here ) , to crack the wallet , with all the computing power of the bitcoin mining ?
The computing power behind bitcoin mining is just computing gazillions of SHA256 hashes.
Which is useless for recovering Satoshi's private key, as that requires solving the Discrete Logarithm Problem for Elliptic Curves.
But even the amount of energy used in all Bitcoin mining falls short of the energy needed to solve a single instance of DLP using the best-known methods, by a factor greater than a billion billion.
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#49Is it possible ( novice with respect to blockchain here ) , to crack the wallet , with all the computing power of the bitcoin mining ?
No, otherwise miners would be cracking wallets instead of mining bitcoins
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Lastly, I find it interesting that the Silicon Valley elite did the ice bucket challenge 2 weeks before Hal died." Sorry, I don't get this. Please elaborate.
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg did their Ice Bucket Challenges on August 14th 2014 and Hal died August 28th 2014 of ALS.
Not parent but I still don't understand.