I am not going to reveal any more information that I already have. I respect his will to stay anonymous.
It was just an emotional post without a thought of provoking a witch-hunt.
Satoshi has been an inspiration to me, I apologize for any inconvenience I might cause.
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#62Goddamnit guys. Let him be. Come on. Are we hackers here or are we paparazzi? I thought Hacker News was a club of quality-valuing people that saw the world from a hacker's perspective and questioned the status quo. My view is shifting with every comment posted here.
chasing bitcoin transaction requires a bit of 'hackarazzi'. identifying Satoshi's bitcoin transaction traces may be useful for some applications.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, disclosing the transaction ID would demonstrate the real cornerstone of bitcoin: the fact that when you get your fingernail under the surface, the whole thing peels up. Identifying Satoshi's account would likely reveal a great deal of information about him and his dealings, and the de-anonymizing can occur anytime, even years or centuries after the fact.
I have a question about Bitcoin: If someone spends some bitcoin at a cafe, then spends some at the XXX porn shop down the street, can the cafe look at the block chain and deduce that the person visited the porn shop?
You always give a transaction you received before in order to spend coins. However, you're supposed to use a fresh (source) address for every new transaction (the wallet software does it for you).
You can't (with the default wallet software) chose which transaction (called unspent transaction) you use in order to spend you coin (this is called coin control).
That is, you can trace coins, not owners, unless you're always using the same source address.
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#64>Invents a currency that allows all your received and paid values to be tracked by the entire world. >Says it's anonymous. Good luck with that.
> apparently knows nothing about bitcoin and the level of anonymity it provides.
> comments on it anyway.
good luck indeed.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's already been doxxed by Newsweek. They even published a picture of his house with the street address clearly visible.
That's no excuse and you know it.
You sound like the CIA saying the leaked documents are not public information.
There is no 'doxxing' to be done anymore. Satoshi has been 'doxxed' as much as anyone can be in real life.
If you are worried about the anonymity of his Bitcoins transactions (and all other's that could be identified from that), I'm sorry, there is no such thing as complete anonymity (as the Bitcoin community apparently still has to learn).
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#66Remember everyone, if you get the correct transaction ID you will not learn too much. It's widely known the vast majority of Satoshi's 1,000,000 bitcoin still sit in their mined blocks. So you might search back to a small set of addresses probably totalling a few thousand bitcoin but nothing spectacular like a giant 50,000+ address.
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#67Please don't disclose the transaction. It's a serious decision, at least.
I'm not a bitcoin user who is I'm generally a strong believer in privacy and I think the other article went to far (particularly in personal/family details). Having said that there is a legitimate interest for those who do hold bitcoin in anyone who holds a significant portion of the bitcoins as their actions could massively shift the value of their holdings. Owners of signficant stakes of public companies have to be…
Most of his fortune is directly traceable from early mining activity:
http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/satoshi-s-fortune-a-...
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#68What cellphone app allowed you to buy and sell Bitcoins in July 2011? I didn't think QR codes were regularly used till late 2011/early 2012.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's no excuse and you know it.
You sound like the CIA saying the leaked documents are not public information. There is no 'doxxing' to be done anymore. Satoshi has been 'doxxed' as much as anyone can be in real life. If you are worried about the anonymity of his Bitcoins transactions (and all other's that could be identified from that), I'm sorry, there is no such thing as complete anonymity (as the Bitcoin community apparently still has to learn)…
This is not about anonymity. He posted his name in the original Bitcoin white paper after all.
This is about an individual's right to privacy. His finances and personal life have just as much right to protection as yours or mine, and just because you may have the power to disclose that information does not mean you should.
For god's sake, you even cite the leaked documents in your argument. Do you remember why that's a big deal? Why we're all so upset that the government has been invading our right to privacy despite our knowing all along that they have technically had the capability and we only expected they would exercise proper caution and due process in wielding it?
You're not some internet economics superhero detective, and I don't care what the impact to the economics of bitcoin would be, that still does not give you the ethical right to harass Satoshi Nakamoto.