I'm honestly surprised that all of the alleged satoshis haven't been kid napped by armed gangs trying to get the billions locked up in the first mined blocks.
How do you know they haven't?
HBO documentary suggests Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd
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#12Absolutely insane.
(1) It's not Peter Todd. Anyone who knows Peter Todd and/or was around in the early days, can clearly tell Satoshi and Peter are not the same person.
(2) No good comes from speculation over the identity of Satoshi. When someone living is named, their life becomes absolute hell and the security risk imposed on them is very real. When someone dead is proposed, that hellish experience is passed to their family and heirs.
(3) It's not Peter Todd.
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#13I was thinking about possible motives for Satoshi to be out of the limelight and now I have a question for those of us who have significant security/signint/encryption experience: Given the info we have, what are the chances that state actors, such as intelligence agencies, are aware beyond doubt of Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity?
What kind of edge does such intel give? Their work (bitcoin) spawned thousands and thousands of people who have taken the foundational technology and made many improvements to it. It seems like trying to figure out who they are incentivizes hobbyists to figure it out rather than state sponsors.
Yeah good point, they probably don't care.
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#14Absolutely insane. (1) It's not Peter Todd. Anyone who knows Peter Todd and/or was around in the early days, can clearly tell Satoshi and Peter are not the same person. (2) No good comes from speculation over the identity of Satoshi. When someone living is named, their life becomes absolute hell and the security risk imposed on them is very real. When someone dead is proposed, that hellish experience is passed to the…
>HBO’s theory relies on a message from Peter Todd claiming to be the ‘world’s leading expert on how to sacrifice your bitcoins’
I just can't imagine the real Satoshi saying something this stupid.
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#15The obvious answer is Satoshi Nakamoto is functionally dead.
His wallet would be worth around $70 billion dollars today and he hasn't touched it in over a decade.
Either he is A) dead, B) lost the wallet and wishes he were dead, or C) has achieved such spiritual enlightenment that has no interest in the personal or societal impact that $70 billion dollars could have.
He is not coming back folks, and even if we figure out who he was, that $70 billion is gone.
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#16I still think it's Paul Le Roux, on the basis that this would be the funniest outcome.
Re: HBO documentary suggests Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd
#17The obvious answer is Satoshi Nakamoto is functionally dead. His wallet would be worth around $70 billion dollars today and he hasn't touched it in over a decade. Either he is A) dead, B) lost the wallet and wishes he were dead, or C) has achieved such spiritual enlightenment that has no interest in the personal or societal impact that $70 billion dollars could have. He is not coming back folks, and even if we figure…
> lost the wallet and wishes he were dead
At least it's a good tax write-off. (Well… $3000 a year for life in the US iirc.)
Re: HBO documentary suggests Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd
#18Absolutely insane. (1) It's not Peter Todd. Anyone who knows Peter Todd and/or was around in the early days, can clearly tell Satoshi and Peter are not the same person. (2) No good comes from speculation over the identity of Satoshi. When someone living is named, their life becomes absolute hell and the security risk imposed on them is very real. When someone dead is proposed, that hellish experience is passed to the…
>HBO’s theory relies on a message from Peter Todd claiming to be the ‘world’s leading expert on how to sacrifice your bitcoins’ I just can't imagine the real Satoshi saying something this stupid.
Also they didn't bother to ask Peter the story behind this? There is a story regarding an entirely different pot of coins.
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#19I'm honestly surprised that all of the alleged satoshis haven't been kid napped by armed gangs trying to get the billions locked up in the first mined blocks.
These 11 peope were kidnapped for their bitcoin.
https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-home-invasion-crime-ring/
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#20Headline: ‘I am not Satoshi Nakamoto’: Subject of HBO documentary denies he invented bitcoin
https://lite.cnn.com/2024/10/08/investing/satoshi-nakamoto-i...