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

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Post by simias »

Hypx wrote: post #14
tlrobinson wrote: post #11

"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.

What about posting pictures of his house? That seems like a huge invasion of privacy to me and it was completely gratuitous IMO.

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

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Post by mike-cardwell »

tlrobinson wrote: post #11

"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.

"Presumably Newsweek didn't outright fabricate any of his quotes"

You're not familiar with journalists are you. If they can't get anything quotable out of you, even something they can mis-quote, they will just outright make it up.

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

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Post by eric_bullington »

samworm wrote: post #12

Double spaces in this statement. Double spaces in the original bitcoin announcements. Ipso facto my friend.

You're probably being ironic, but for the sake of the readers, I'll point out that most of us in the United States that are older than around 30 years old and learned to type using a formal system (including typing software) use double-spaces.

That's the way we were trained to type. The only thing this proves is that Satoshi was probably not a very young person. I don't think many people believe this anyway (or maybe he just "faked" the double-spaces?).

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

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Post by eric_bullington »

0-o wrote: post #22

I guess, if you can verify that there was communication by from the Satoshi Nakamoto account around the timeframe where he claims to be hospitalised (october 2012 and october 2013), it will be less likely that Dorian has bitcoin involvement.

Satoshi stopped communicating to the public (at least qua Satoshi) back in 2011. So that's not going to happen.

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

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Post by samworm »

eric_bullington wrote: post #24
samworm wrote: post #12

Double spaces in this statement. Double spaces in the original bitcoin announcements. Ipso facto my friend.

You're probably being ironic, but for the sake of the readers, I'll point out that most of us in the United States that are older than around 30 years old and learned to type using a formal system (including typing software) use double-spaces. That's the way we were trained to type. The only thing this proves is that Satoshi was probably not a very young person. I don't think many people believe this anyway (or maybe…

It was sarcasm.

The joke was a reference back to Goodman's observartion in the original article: "the punctuation in the proposal is also consistent with how Dorian S. Nakamoto writes, with double spaces after periods and other format quirks."

Your comments about prevalence of this technique stand, of course.

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

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Post by camus2 »

0-o wrote: post #22

I guess, if you can verify that there was communication by from the Satoshi Nakamoto account around the timeframe where he claims to be hospitalised (october 2012 and october 2013), it will be less likely that Dorian has bitcoin involvement.

> it will be less likely that Dorian has bitcoin involvement

So journalist write some made up story, and it's Dorian who has to prove it's fake? if you think things should work that way,then crappy journalists have won, and that exactly why they feel they can go on publishing crap,because of people thinking the way you do.

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

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Post by aytekin »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #23
tlrobinson wrote: post #11

"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.

"Presumably Newsweek didn't outright fabricate any of his quotes" You're not familiar with journalists are you. If they can't get anything quotable out of you, even something they can mis-quote, they will just outright make it up.

This book is full of examples of shocking things bloggers/journalists do: http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulator...

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

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Post by danielweber »

simias wrote: post #21
Hypx wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What about posting pictures of his house? That seems like a huge invasion of privacy to me and it was completely gratuitous IMO.

For better or for worse[1], we have a very strong protections on speech in the US. Although the specifics need to be addressed by his lawyer, in general Dorian needs to prove Newsweek did wrong, and that's a tough hurdle.

[1] I think "for better" but this is showing one of the sadder side effects.

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