It's all money laundering. The creators are probably Russian oligarchs and mobsters. There is no Satoshi, just Ivan, Vladimir, and so on.
No it's very high probability he's not that.
Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
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#22It's all money laundering. The creators are probably Russian oligarchs and mobsters. There is no Satoshi, just Ivan, Vladimir, and so on.
"Its probably the baddies again!"
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#23For me it’s interesting because in the general case, nobody is perfect at opsec and eventually slips up. Satoshi is a super prominent counter-example.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also someone with that much wealth probably owes some tax somewhere. He's pretty much El Dorado.
He hasn't spent anything. Do any countries have taxes on assets instead of income?
In The Netherlands normal savings (retirement/pension savings are taxed once you retire), stocks, crypto ...etc are all taxed to everyone except Dutch Royal Family.
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#25Bitcoin works because you can prove it mathematically without Satoshi's involvement. He made a quote in the recent email dump that reinforces this: "self-evident proof of the majority consensus”. [1]
[1] https://twitter.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1760718747768087033
The world doesn't need Satoshi for Bitcoin to continue working. And so the reason people want to find his identity is because there exist people in the world who lie, cheat, steal and ultimately kill. Those people want to find Satoshi, to punish him for inventing a fair system of economic trade that doesn't cut them into it.
Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
#26Bitcoin works because you can prove it mathematically without Satoshi's involvement. He made a quote in the recent email dump that reinforces this: "self-evident proof of the majority consensus”. [1] [1] https://twitter.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1760718747768087033 The world doesn't need Satoshi for Bitcoin to continue working. And so the reason people want to find his identity is because there exist people in the world…
That's probably the most ridiculous answer there is.
1. The chance that something like Bitcoin is a logical virus and being though of is.not that far fetched. All of it's tec was already here.
2. Just because people believe in Bitcoin and don't understand it doesn't make it fair.
3. People like to think about it because he is still the inventor even if his invention is responsible for a tremendous amount of CO2 and he should be very rich which makes this 'mystery' interesting
And as said in a thread yesterday: Bitcoin doesn't even solve the trust issue.
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#27We don't want to hurt him..... We just want to talk
Re: Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
#28It's all money laundering. The creators are probably Russian oligarchs and mobsters. There is no Satoshi, just Ivan, Vladimir, and so on.
Or the CIA
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also someone with that much wealth probably owes some tax somewhere. He's pretty much El Dorado.
He hasn't spent anything. Do any countries have taxes on assets instead of income?
Yes, several countries have a so-called wealth tax, in addition to income tax.
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#30i always thought it was that Swiss guy living in Tokyo
you know what? one factoid that just came to mind is that he listed an @gmx mail address on the original Bitcoin paper. I genuinely don’t know a single person using GMX without some sort of connection to DACh (Germany, Austria and Switzerland).