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What $500mm are you referring to?
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The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked
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Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked
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Why is every mention of possible disclosure of Satoshi's identity fraught with heavy overtones of "Your Life Is In Grave Danger"? We have many people who are much richer whose identities are not secret and we don't need to freak out constantly and warn them that They Are In Grave Danger. AFAIK he's not been accused of any crime either. Is it maybe because Bitcoin enthusiasts have a large overlap with monatery cranks…
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Everybody blames Gox's shitty custom php wallet and general total incompetence of it's CEO not Satoshi who hasn't worked on bitcoin for years
Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked
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"Security through obscurity" being bad only applies to cryptography, and have no bearing whatsoever to the concept of security in real life. To answer your question, actually, yes, it's almost proven to be the most effective measurement for one's safety: don't want to get hurt? Don't let people find you: get in a forest/ mountain range and hide.
Now First Blood is an underrated movie but I'm not sure it, or anything else, supports your claims. Hiding in the mountains has been a proven way of lowering life expectancy for millennia.
This thread matches the "increases bob's chances of being a k00k" pattern from the recent thread patterns link: http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/thread_patterns/
Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked
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I haven't heard of a single MtGox creditor that has expressed anger towards Satoshi.
If you were really, really angry, and planning to do something about it, would you broadcast that?
If I were rational enough to plan that far ahead, I'd probably be rational enough to realize that the guy who invented bitcoin isn't responsible for anything and everything that happens with it, particularly events to which he has no connection other than having been the inventor.
Like if someone steals my expensive Android phone, I'm not going to find Andy Rubin and punch him. Because that ... just wouldn't make any sense.
Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is every mention of possible disclosure of Satoshi's identity fraught with heavy overtones of "Your Life Is In Grave Danger"? We have many people who are much richer whose identities are not secret and we don't need to freak out constantly and warn them that They Are In Grave Danger. AFAIK he's not been accused of any crime either. Is it maybe because Bitcoin enthusiasts have a large overlap with monatery cranks…
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Not a single person in their right mind would blame Satoshi(or even associate him with) the Mt Gox scandal.
Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked
#46Satoshi's account on p2pfoundation.ning.com also made the first comment since he said "I am not Dorian Nakamoto." back in March. It says: "Dear Satoshi. Your dox, passwords and IP addresses are being sold on the darknet. Apparently you didn't configure Tor properly and your IP leaked when you used your email account sometime in 2010. You are not safe. You need to get out of where you are as soon as possible before th…
So could someone explain how an IP address would leak when using an email account? I suppose potentially in the SMTP header, but this would assume he was using a email server running on his own personal ip, right? So is the guess here (assuming this is even true) that he had an email server running at home, leaked the ip, and then was attacked when someone found it?
gmail, for instance, includes the client IP address in mail headers.
I learned this myself recently from an article here on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2083798
Haven't checked it myself, just reported there by a former gmail engineer in the context of their anti-spammer efforts.
Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked
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Now First Blood is an underrated movie but I'm not sure it, or anything else, supports your claims. Hiding in the mountains has been a proven way of lowering life expectancy for millennia.
This thread matches the "increases bob's chances of being a k00k" pattern from the recent thread patterns link: http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/thread_patterns/
Lol missing context:
"Or he's really right and everyone else is wrong."
Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked
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Many SMTP servers include the IP address of the sender in the headers (usually the Received header). Just look around, you'll be surprised.
Using webmail would defeat that, though, right?
Not if the webmail implementation passes-on your IP, which it should if you believe Spam is a bigger issue than email sender privacy.
Basically, if a webmail service doesn't pass along your IP, there would be no way for recipient networks to ever block a flood of unwanted email because they could never blacklist, say, yahoo.com.
I read something about this lately... maybe from Paul Buchheit?
Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked
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So you're saying holding Bitcoin can be hazardous to our health? Whoa, I don't think that's one of the approved talking points.
If you have a few thousand dollars of gold in your house, you shouldn't worry too much. But if you have a billion dollars of gold in your basement, you should be very, very paranoid. Even with perfect security, you'd still be a ransom target.
> But if you have a billion dollars of gold in your basement, you should be very, very paranoid.
At close to 25 tonnes, and ~1.3m³, I'd like to see the engineering behind such a heist
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Buttcoin.org is also a satirical blog that mocks the extremely vested segments of the Bitcoin community: http://buttcoin.org/ I used to read it at one time, and it was actually often the voice of reason in a sea of anarcho-capitalist pipe dreams, but I don't know about its present state.
It was bought by a straw purchaser on behalf of BFL, a Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer with an aversion to shipping in a timely fashion, as a reputation management ploy. They edited some pointed posts about BFL and left the rest of the blog up. Just another day in the Bitcoin economy.
The original buttcoiners seem to have moved on to http://reddit.com/r/buttcoin
The buttcoiners seem to make light of the BFL purchase, since in their mind, the former owner has done something that many Bitcoin investors have not - made a profit off of Bitcoin.