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I Am Not Satoshi
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Re: I Am Not Satoshi
#42General consensus seems to be that Ron&Shamir's publications on this topic are extraordinarily weak given how stellar a record Shamir, in particular, has.
The conclusion seems obvious: It's a misdirection. Adi Shamir is Satoshi Nakamoto.
(Note: No, I do not in fact believe this.)
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#43I would just like to make it known that I am also not Satoshi.
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#44One of the consequences of a public transaction chain is the great potential for witch hunts. Here's one of the first examples, but it surely won't be the last.
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#45I don't really understand why Satoshi wants to be hidden. Is it because of the legal issues or does he want be a hidden super character?
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#46General consensus seems to be that Ron&Shamir's publications on this topic are extraordinarily weak given how stellar a record Shamir, in particular, has. The conclusion seems obvious: It's a misdirection. Adi Shamir is Satoshi Nakamoto. (Note: No, I do not in fact believe this.)
This sounds like a fairly typical case of an advisor giving a student free reign. Most professors do not invest the time to understand their students' work as much as you might think.
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#47One of the consequences of a public transaction chain is the great potential for witch hunts. Here's one of the first examples, but it surely won't be the last.
That's a positive thing, because it only grows trust between members of community.
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#48For what it's worth, I'm not Satoshi Nakamoto either.
I am Satoshi. And also Spartacus
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#49I don't really understand why Satoshi wants to be hidden. Is it because of the legal issues or does he want be a hidden super character?
If you've been paying attention for the last three years, almost everyone thought the US government would crack down on bitcoin with a vengence, satoshi very well may have been genuinely fearful of the ramifications of his software.
It is also possible that satoshi is a group of people and not a person.
Lastly, the idiosyncratic nature of someone who spends their time on crypto mailing lists and making crypto currency is likely to take privacy seriously for its own sake.
A better question might be, why would satoshi want to be found out?
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#50I 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 reve…
Where did you get that 20,000 Bitcoins are worth (even hypothetically) one billion? Even at $1,000 per BTC that's just $20M.
I think that's coming from the idea that the "ultimate value" of the BTC money supply should be ~$1 trillion (in order for it to replace real-world currencies in a significant fraction of transactions). 20,0000 Bitcoins is ~1/1000th of 21,000,000 potential Bitcoins.