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Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto's official denial of Bitcoin involvement

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Re: Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto's official denial of Bitcoin involvement

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"My prospects for gainful employment has been harmed because of Newsweek's article"

"I have retained legal counsel"

Gearing up for a lawsuit, it seems. I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea if it would have merit.

Presumably Newsweek didn't outright fabricate any of his quotes, but they may have misinterpreted them.

Re: Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto's official denial of Bitcoin involvement

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The reporter that originally accused this dude of inventing bitcoin should get fired. 90+% of Newsweek readers will never see this tweet, and the original article is pretty speculative, so I don't know if it'll warrant a retraction. People hungry for bitcoin are probably going to come for Satoshi, and it won't be pretty.

Re: Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto's official denial of Bitcoin involvement

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"My prospects for gainful employment has been harmed because of Newsweek's article" "I have retained legal counsel" Gearing up for a lawsuit, it seems. I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea if it would have merit. Presumably Newsweek didn't outright fabricate any of his quotes, but they may have misinterpreted them.

Libel laws in this country practically means he has no legal recourse. He would need to prove that Newsweek made the whole thing up, not merely that they misunderstood him.

Re: Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto's official denial of Bitcoin involvement

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you create an address that includes specific text?

You brute-force create private keys until you have one whose corresponding public key starts with your desired string. A commonly recommended command-line tool to do this is vanitygen. I feel the urge to say "I do not endorse that tool's security." (Though the same goes for Bitcoin generally.)

Your address isn't a public key. It is the formatted hash of a public key.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1...

Re: Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto's official denial of Bitcoin involvement

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Perhaps he doesn't find the whole situation to be pleasant, but as of 6 days ago, he's been donated at least $28,000 ( https://blockchain.info/address/1Dorian4RoXcnBv9hnQ4Y2C1an6N... ). Hopefully this offsets things.

Can you perhaps explain how he can get these $28,000 in physical dollars? That's not even getting into an irony of throwing Bitcoins at a person whose life has been just severely discomforted by the very same subject.

> irony of throwing Bitcoins at a person whose life has been just severely discomforted by the very same subject.

that's sort of the whole point. The community are apologising on behalf of Newsweek. Not as a publicity stunt, not to convert the guy to bitcoin (he will receive a check in USD), just because it's the right thing to do.

Re: Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto's official denial of Bitcoin involvement

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Perhaps he doesn't find the whole situation to be pleasant, but as of 6 days ago, he's been donated at least $28,000 ( https://blockchain.info/address/1Dorian4RoXcnBv9hnQ4Y2C1an6N... ). Hopefully this offsets things.

Thanks for pointing this address out.

But what this guy needs more than money or an apology from Newsweek is a job. Shouldn't "we" hook something up for him?

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