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HBO documentary suggests Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd

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Re: HBO documentary suggests Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd

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Post by vizzah »

petertodd wrote: post #109
xOSBERTx wrote: post #107

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I think you misunderstood the context of 'thousands' - - "If anything, I think it could be literally hundreds or even thousands of potential people." - - meaning that, literally, thousands of DIFFERENT people, could be considered, as a potential possibility, of being a possible candidate, of being, Satoshi. Simply put :-P Not that 'thousands' of people are Satoshi, like you misunderstood. - anywho -

Exactly. The world is a big place. It's likely that in 2008 thousands of people had the right skillset to create Bitcoin, any one of which might have done it. As long as Satoshi wants to stay hidden, we're not going to find them.

Gov/CIA most definitely knows who Satoshi is.

Even if he always used TOR/anonymous IPs, when accessing his @gmx.com account, with the number of sign-in's he had, it must be an absolute certainty, that he want through rogue exit nodes or some other de-anonymization methods we are not aware of, but deployed by gov. agencies.

Re: HBO documentary suggests Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd

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Post by kyledrake »

philsquared_ wrote: post #97
kyledrake wrote: post #70

I spent quite a bit of time with Peter Todd in the very early Bitcoin days. I really enjoyed our conversations back then, I have no idea what he is up to now. My gut feeling is that he is probably not Satoshi Nakamoto. Adam Back is a far more likely suspect, particularly for his British english, which Satoshi wrote in.

+1 to Adam Back. Who is more likely to build ontop of some obscure code base called "Hash Cash"? Some random people that trolled the same forums or the original creator of it? Imo this "secret" is known by many people as I have seen so many censorship and misdirection campaigns throughout the years if people mention Adam being the one. Him being Satoshi also makes bitcoin core seem more legitimate. He can guide his c…

Indeed there's really nothing positive to be had from coming out as Satoshi at this point regardless of who it is. Criminals and governments will be falling over each other to try to get their take.

Re: HBO documentary suggests Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd

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Post by amai »

nullc wrote: post #89
runjake wrote: post #60

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If it was Satoshi making a correction, he could’ve just edited his original post because bitcointalk allowed for post edits even back then.

Also, at the time petertodd's account was named 'retep' and didn't have any immediately obvious connection to his identity. If there had been a slipup he could have just abandoned the account and certainly not later had it renamed to his legal name!

'retep' for peter backwards? That is kind a lame.

Re: HBO documentary suggests Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd

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Post by nullc »

amai wrote: post #115
nullc wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, at the time petertodd's account was named 'retep' and didn't have any immediately obvious connection to his identity. If there had been a slipup he could have just abandoned the account and certainly not later had it renamed to his legal name!

'retep' for peter backwards? That is kind a lame.

hey now, it took me most of a decade to figure out that retep was peter backwards!

but also, it's not particularly identifying as there are a lot of peter's in and around bitcoin.

Re: HBO documentary suggests Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd

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Post by cypherpunks01 »

startupsfail wrote: post #33
yboris wrote: post #20

Headline: ‘I am not Satoshi Nakamoto’: Subject of HBO documentary denies he invented bitcoin https://lite.cnn.com/2024/10/08/investing/satoshi-nakamoto-i...

Is there anything positive at all in the Crypto industry? CO2 emissions, fraud, attacking democracy is on the negative side. What’s on the positive? Why is it still legal? It feels like Crypto at the systemic level is an open vulnerability not an asset. It’d be nice to have this vulnerability to get fixed.

I think the most positive benefits are people using it to protect themselves in countries under authoritarian rule and/or economic collapse. Low-fee remittances are a lesser but still very positive use-case. There are genuine large benefits to people in these situations.

See also: Why I'm less than infinitely hostile to crypto

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-im-less-than-infinitely...

Re: HBO documentary suggests Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd

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Post by WalterBright »

nullc wrote: post #105
WalterBright wrote: post #41

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My money is on Hal, too. He was in the dorm room next to mine. I've never met an actual genius before or since. Bitcoin is just the thing he would invent. He was interviewed when he could no longer speak. He was asked if he was Satoshi. He just smiled. It's just the kind of joke Hal would play.

Hey, it would be a kindness to Hal's family to not promote this theory. They've been subject to threats and extortion over it. To the extent that someone could argue that there is some public interest angle, I think that's only arguable in the case of certainty. Speculation is a dime a dozen. Even if there is a public interest angle in identifying Satoshi, I don't think that extends to idle speculation. Hal was an am…

I didn't think of that. I just thought that he deserved credit. It never occurred to me this might bring trouble to his family. I'll take your advice.

It's also nice to know another of Hal's friends.

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