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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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Intresting theory from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=775174.80 [Quote] nycgoat on September 08, 2014, 11:49:43 PM Is it possible that he deleted the e-mail address @gmx when he left the project and that it has been recycled? Someone else may have been able to sign up, then use the reset password feature on these other sites. It is likely that the @gmx address would have been destroyed at the conclusion of h…

The behavior of the p2pfoundation "resurfacing" of Satoshi is different than the sourceforge one, possibly indicating 2 people with some of Satoshi's credentials, so in my mind that lends some credibility to the explanation on the p2pfoundation post (Satoshi's info being sold to various buyers) as being more likely.

That does not contradict shlorn's hypothesis. One hacker gains access to Satoshi's accounts through @gmx recycling. Then he sells those accounts separately.

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Surely Edwin Armstrong bears even greater responsibility in light of his invention of the superheterodyne receiver!

I guess Hedy Lamarr is also dead. Might as well punch Rubin.

To clarify, I'm not saying I wouldn't punch Andy Rubin, I'm just saying I wouldn't punch him because someone stole my phone.

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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Not at all, you can freely walk into most exchange offices. Theoretically an armed robbery of exchanges and payment processors would be the perfect crime. Commit private address to memory or tattoo it on yourself in code, after the robbery forcing them to transfer to your public address and waiting out confirmations turn yourself in to the police and do the 5 yrs. Walk out with millions worth of bitcoins on your arm.…

They'd keep you in indefinitely for contempt of court for not handing over what you'd stolen.

Plausible deniability. You are only the low ranking front. You don't know the passphrase needed to hand over.

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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One of the comments on the Wired post[1] shows that the email from CardReaderFactory is a hoax: you can see the person's name using the Levels tool in Photoshop. Confirmed with Photoshop myself using the imgur image links I got from this HN post. [1]: http://www.wired.com/2014/09/satoshi/#comment-1580438754

What makes this a hoax? Couldn't that person be Satoshi?

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…

> AFAIK he's not been accused of any crime either. I imagine the IRS really would like to audit him if he's an American citizen, however.

The euphemism known as an IRS audit would interfere in his life if an exchange into or out of USD took place. Anyone can attribute value to anything. That doesn't make it valuable. Taxation here would require provable gains or losses, as with USD. The transactions of people exchanging only in [bitcoins, metal, coffee beans, rocks, fancy/worthless paper], not in USD, do not imply that any taxable "gains" or "losses" occurred. If it implied this, there would equally be a lot of losses claimed.

Re: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been hacked

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If you take the screenshot showing the leaked e-mail from an order 'he' placed at CardReaderFactory, you get an interesting data point: - You can lookup orders tied to the e-mail address shatoshin@gmx.de - You cannot lookup order tied to gibberish accounts, like odn2n489n4@gmail.com Proof: http://imgur.com/a/22z72

And what does this say?
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