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> I would put absolutely NOTHING past the original architect. An thus create a unfalsifiable, worthless hypothesis. Al Gore could be Satoshi then.
My girlfriend works at a bakery. She swears that one day an elderly Elvis and Tupac came in together, bought some pastries with bitcoin, then told her they invented the entire thing.
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> I would put absolutely NOTHING past the original architect. An thus create a unfalsifiable, worthless hypothesis. Al Gore could be Satoshi then.
My girlfriend works at a bakery. She swears that one day an elderly Elvis and Tupac came in together, bought some pastries with bitcoin, then told her they invented the entire thing.
This proves that interviews really need to be done via email or audio recording. This would seemingly prevent a lot of basic reporting issues. Interviewee: "I did not say this." Interviewer: "Here's the email / audio as proof." Problem solved.
Not really solved, since you can still have people misspeaking or misunderstanding questions, and there's no way to prove that without mind reading. And isn't that what happened in this case? Nobody's saying she made up the quote. IIRC everyone (reporter, Dorian, police officers) agree it was said. It's just that Dorian claims he misunderstood her question, which is why he gave an answer that appeared to admit to cre…
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The ethics here are very questionable. Wtf - you just find some dude, based on no real evidence, then you "out" him for something that's not criminal and give the internet trolls his whereabouts? What could be more "yellow press"? I really wish their ass got sued.
The internet trolls are the least of his concerns; when you're possibly worth 400 million, you need to worry about criminals. You're a target. That story put his life in danger.
So is this the moment where all the bitcoin fanatics pool together a bunch of BTC for Dorian as.. a sort of apology? The guy should at least get a new train set outta the whole mess..
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ztjmg/andreas_im_f...
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This whole thing reminded me of the lesswrong.com post on Amanda Knox [1] Even the initial assumption that the creator of Bitcoin used his real name, contained in the headline, was extremely unlikely, and all other evidence was completely circumstantial. In my mind, it was nearly obvious that Dorian is not Satoshi after a few hours and was shocked to see that many believed the news story. I'm still not sure if this w…
To be fair, Leigh claims that Satoshi unambiguously admitted to her his involvement with bitcoin, and she was supposed to be a reputable journalist. This gave some justification for initially accepting the story at face value.
I tend to believe the Newsweek article because a reputable journalistic source of that caliber would not run a story like that unless they had enough evidence to prove it. Because this guy is not a public persona they would probably otherwise be guilty of libel. -- EDIT: As gamblor956 pointed out they would be "liable" rather than "guilty". It does sound like he may have a case though, especially if Newsweek is wrong…
So is this the moment where all the bitcoin fanatics pool together a bunch of BTC for Dorian as.. a sort of apology? The guy should at least get a new train set outta the whole mess..
One was started 10 days ago, almost at $30,000 USD: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ztjmg/andreas_im_f...
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The internet trolls are the least of his concerns; when you're possibly worth 400 million, you need to worry about criminals. You're a target. That story put his life in danger.
Criminals and the IRS. But I repeat myself.