I Am Not Satoshi • Hacker News Board

Re: I Am Not Satoshi

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Post by Procrastes » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 10:27 PM UTC

Aim to astonish.

Re: I Am Not Satoshi

#12

Post by Crito » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 10:28 PM UTC

didgeoridoo wrote: post #3

That's exactly what Satoshi would say...

I bet if we piled a bunch of rocks up on his chest, he would admit to being Satoshi.

Re: I Am Not Satoshi

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Post by dllthomas » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 10:30 PM UTC

"only Mt. Gox knows who controlled those specific coins after I began trading them."

And anyone who knows one of the subsequent addresses those coins touched in the blockchain. Of course, it also doesn't really matter who they went to.

Re: I Am Not Satoshi

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Post by highace » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 10:30 PM UTC

cm2012 wrote: post #6

I wonder if this person is enormously rich now from BTC, considering how early he got in. Not that it's any of our business...

Rich in bitcoins - yes. Rich in USD? Not yet.

Re: I Am Not Satoshi

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Post by vijayboyapati » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 10:30 PM UTC

I wonder, is research like journalism where an academic is morally obliged to issue a retraction or correction for conclusions shown, conclusively, to be false?

Re: I Am Not Satoshi

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Post by DigitalSea » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 10:37 PM UTC

I doubt the real identity of Satoshi will ever be revealed. Seriously, if the claims of Satoshi mining the first 20,000 Bitcoins is true (with a value of almost one billion), would he seriously want to be publicly known?

I would imagine the FBI amongst other Government organisations and figures would love nothing more than to pick Satoshi's brain (by force if need be) if his or her identity were to ever be truly revealed. We won't ever know who the real Satoshi is.

I can make baseless and factless accusations as to who I think Satoshi is as well. I think it's Al Gore, he invented the Internet after all.

Re: I Am Not Satoshi

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Post by maaku » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 10:38 PM UTC

highace wrote: post #14

cm2012 wrote: post #6

I wonder if this person is enormously rich now from BTC, considering how early he got in. Not that it's any of our business...

Rich in bitcoins - yes. Rich in USD? Not yet.

He had a balance of ~1200 btc on mtgox in March of 2013, during a time when bitcoin was hovering around $50. Had he sold it all then it would have been a cool $60k. Had he kept it until now, it would be approximately $1MM (it's never been below $50 since that time).

Whether that counts as "rich" is a matter of perspective, I guess.

Re: I Am Not Satoshi

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Post by maaku » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 10:38 PM UTC

stfu wrote: post #5

If his statement is true the "research" by Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir seems more than just accidentally flawed, not to say even highly misleading.

As have been their previous papers on the subject.

Re: I Am Not Satoshi

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Post by MrZongle2 » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 10:39 PM UTC

"I am not Spartacus!"

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Post by vbuterin » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 10:39 PM UTC

This is not even the first paper by Dorit Ron and Shamir on Bitcoin; they did an analysis of the transaction graph earlier: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf‎

And that one too was quite poorly done; from the text, it actually seemed like they thought that "the blockchain" is a file stored on blockchain.info. Disappointing from the inventor of Shamir's Secret Sharing and differential cryptanalysis.