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The Face Behind Bitcoin?

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Re: The Face Behind Bitcoin?

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Post by fnordfnordfnord »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #365
fnordfnordfnord wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They haven't presented any evidence. The Satoshi they found sounds like a plausible Satoshi but is it really him? If he is the real Satoshi he may have lost or discarded his private keys. Some snarky comment about how this is why bloggers aren't journalists because a "real" news organization has ethics or something.

> Some snarky comment about how this is why bloggers aren't journalists because a "real" news organization has ethics or something. Honestly, I always thought it was the other way around. This situation only confirms that.

I should have said snarky and ironic.

Re: The Face Behind Bitcoin?

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Post by olalonde »

Meta: this submission has 811 point and was posted only 5 hours, yet it is at #11 position. Is this the regular HN algorithm at work or is it weighted down due to its controversial nature? (I'm not trying to imply there is any conspiracy... I actually remember reading that submissions with a high vote to comment ratio are weighted down but I'm not completely sure)

Re: The Face Behind Bitcoin?

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Post by anigbrowl »

john_b wrote: post #413
arrrg wrote: post #143

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Did I do anything of note that would make any of this information interesting to the public? I think I did not. If you want to put the work in and find all that out you are free to. I never once said that everyone should actually provide journalists with that information just like that. They still have to put the work in. Do that if you want to, but I don’t think you will find anything interesting.

So a person loses their right to privacy when enough strangers take an interest in them? Nakamoto barely provided Newsweek with any information at all. The rest was obtained (possibly illegally?) by snatching his email from a website he had done business with. After that, she pretended to have an interest in trains to spark a conversation and get initial information. She then stalked him and interviewed his family.

You don't have a right to privacy. Perhaps you should, and I've argued in favor of a constitutional amendment to that effect, but in the meantime privacy is just a polite social fiction.

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Post by mikeash »

[deleted] wrote: post #448
mikeash wrote: post #133

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My favorite are the guys who rail against socialized medicine while simultaneously praising the care they get from the VA. I think a lot of these people just subconsciously see "the government" as simply not including the security apparatus.

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I think you should go read my comment again. I'm not talking about my beliefs, I'm talking about the claims of those experiencing it.

If you want to tell my friend who was terribly pleased with his heart surgery courtesy of the military that he's worthy of buying a bridge, go for it, but I don't think he's going to be pleased.

Re: The Face Behind Bitcoin?

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Post by r4pha »

bruceb wrote: post #266
r4pha wrote: post #45

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As much as I don't like this - at the very least - ridiculously unethical article, I'm pretty sure a lot of papers would be dying to publish this piece.

How is it unethical? The guy created a currency that is used around the world and is a mystery.

It's just my personal opinion. If someone is clearly trying to remain undisturbed, I find it very disrespectful to distribute pictures of their face and home without their consent.

Re: The Face Behind Bitcoin?

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Post by anigbrowl »

polymatter wrote: post #253
JabavuAdams wrote: post #174

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By making something that's used by vast numbers of people to channel huge amounts of money. Journalists need to be able to go after stories like this because otherwise our society will be much worse. They have editors. They have review boards. We're not talking about 4chan or reddit lynch mobs here.

And if she is wrong? Maybe he is the wrong guy. How is he going to prove he didn't invent Bitcoin? Especially if he has done classified work. He clearly doesn't want attention. He couldn't have made that more clear. And he still has a right to a private life. I don't agree with your suggestion that creators don't have rights. I am not suggesting to stop journalists investigating who people are. But this is clearly so…

Then he can sue and expect a substantial payout.

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Post by gasull »

nwh wrote: post #22

Being labeled Satoshi regardless of truth is pretty much going to get you robbed, kidnapped or killed. This dude lives in this town and has $400M of untraceable currency? The article gives his name, face, address and relatives. You can be sure as hell that somebody will do something stupid to try and get to it. I wouldn't wish this label upon anybody, it's exactly why the community tries to avoid speculating about it…

I don't think Gavin is acknowledging that this is the real Satoshi (he cannot even know). He's just complaining about the doxing of the Nakamoto family, regardless of if this guy is or not the real Satoshi.

Re: The Face Behind Bitcoin?

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Post by anigbrowl »

pkfrank wrote: post #371
Crito wrote: post #351

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As far as I know, many public school typing classes still teach double-spaces. It isn't until you get to things like classes in journalism tracks at universities that the concept is dispensed with.

This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods? I recognize the historical origin (typewriters), but I was taught this way and I'm "only" 24.

I don't. Horrible habit. I wrote a good number of macros to strip the superfluous spaces from text I want to read back in the days of fixed-width fonts. However it's so common that I don't think it's useful as an identifier - miuch better to look for SIPs.
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