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Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto

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Re: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto

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Even more interesting: look who signed Satoshi's key on April Fools Day of last year [1]. http://sks.pkqs.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&sear... (ignore the signature from today, anyone could have done that in the brouhaha following today's disclosures) Based on that, it looks pretty clear to me that Dorian Nakamoto decided to "latch on" to the Satoshi Nakamoto founder's myth, either as a way to boost his re…

Lol at the John Titor reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor (for the uninitiated)

Re: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto

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post #21

Even more interesting: look who signed Satoshi's key on April Fools Day of last year [1]. http://sks.pkqs.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&sear... (ignore the signature from today, anyone could have done that in the brouhaha following today's disclosures) Based on that, it looks pretty clear to me that Dorian Nakamoto decided to "latch on" to the Satoshi Nakamoto founder's myth, either as a way to boost his re…

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Re: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto

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post #26
post #21

Even more interesting: look who signed Satoshi's key on April Fools Day of last year [1]. http://sks.pkqs.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&sear... (ignore the signature from today, anyone could have done that in the brouhaha following today's disclosures) Based on that, it looks pretty clear to me that Dorian Nakamoto decided to "latch on" to the Satoshi Nakamoto founder's myth, either as a way to boost his re…

What does this mean? Dorian may or may not be "Satoshi", but was definitely involved in Bitcoin?

One possibility is indeed that Satoshi is trolling us hard. He may actually have based his pseudonym on this guy... but that's playing a dangerous game, as this is in fact one more datapoint to honing in on the real Satoshi.

A number of blackhats did this around Lulzsec time. They would adopt a second-level identity -- and drop very, very small hints to make people think they're some person X. Person X being a person the blackhat in question just chose randomly by, oh I dono, cruising around the web where people talk about IT security... choosing an interesting person, learning about them by googling around, and eventually starting to play that person (or rather, play that person playing to be anonymous). This was one of the suggested strategies in the helpdocs wiki, advertised on the irc channel where lulzsec members usually would be. But since Dorian is kind of an old guy, the real Satoshi would have had to know him in real life (hence my saying that it'd be a dangerous game for Satoshi to be playing).

But really, I think it's just a very funny coincidence. As others have pointed out, Satoshi Nakamoto is not that of an uncommon Japanese name. Too bad Dorian got dragged into all of this. He seems like a sweet old man, with a great sense of humour ("I want a free lunch", wonderful) and an awesome hobby (model trains are fun). I'll buy you a lunch Dorian!

Re: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto

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post #21

Even more interesting: look who signed Satoshi's key on April Fools Day of last year [1]. http://sks.pkqs.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&sear... (ignore the signature from today, anyone could have done that in the brouhaha following today's disclosures) Based on that, it looks pretty clear to me that Dorian Nakamoto decided to "latch on" to the Satoshi Nakamoto founder's myth, either as a way to boost his re…

That's fake, look at the URL via google cache, it wasn't there a couple of months ago: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...

Well spotted, I edited my original post and upvoted yours (feel free to downvote mine).

Re: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto

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post #21

Even more interesting: look who signed Satoshi's key on April Fools Day of last year [1]. http://sks.pkqs.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&sear... (ignore the signature from today, anyone could have done that in the brouhaha following today's disclosures) Based on that, it looks pretty clear to me that Dorian Nakamoto decided to "latch on" to the Satoshi Nakamoto founder's myth, either as a way to boost his re…

Oh wow I totally fell for that. Good troll though.

Re: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto

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The "real" Satoshi Nakamoto coming forward after all this time just to say he isn't Dorian Nakamoto seems kind of suspicious to me. It's not like Dorian Nakamoto is the first person to have been accused of being Satoshi.

He's the first person to be declared definitively to be Satoshi Nakamoto by a news piece in a major publication, not just idle vague speculation on someone's blog.

Re: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto

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This is likely to be the admin of the site perhaps? Or a hacker? I would have expected the real Satoshi to sign a message from his known address making it certain it's him.

That's what I was thinking: admin of site. If it it is Satoshi it could be Dorian lying.
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