Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius?

Post by adventured » Wed, Dec 09, 2015, 9:59 AM UTC

mikeyouse wrote: post #123

pen2l wrote: post #30

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It's actually really really unsafe for him. The moment people find out that he's a billionaire (Satoshi's BTC are worth a 9-digit figure), he might be a victim of an attack.

Just to be a bit pedantic, he's estimated to have ~1.1M coins, which at current market prices would be worth $440M (9 figure wealth isn't a billion, but 'only' in the hundreds of milloins). Obviously he'd destroy the book on any exchange if he tried to cash out so it's probably worth much less than that.

Post by mmortal03 » Wed, Dec 09, 2015, 11:02 AM UTC

kijin wrote: post #112

maaarghk wrote: post #63

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I think that's plausible particularly because he emailed someone asking them to leak his message about not being Dorian, and that person heavily edited / redacted it; it's quite possible that is a recurring theme. Also in the Gawker article we are told Wright emailed Kleiman asking for "help editing a paper", "I need your help and I need a version of me to make this work that is better than me."

Notice that most of Wright's retroactive editing to make himself look like Satoshi took place in 2013-2014, shortly after Kleiman died. Perhaps Kleiman was the one who really wanted to keep Satoshi's identity a secret, but Wright had different ambitions and now he doesn't have his friend to rein him in anymore.

Post by nickpsecurity » Wed, Dec 09, 2015, 4:04 PM UTC

toufka wrote: post #132

nickpsecurity wrote: post #82

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Does anyone have source code of Nick's from around the time period of what Satoshi submitted? Satoshi's style is so weird that Nick's should be the same unless the style was itself an obfuscation.

Got any examples of the weirdness in the original code?

Post by brandoncordell » Wed, Dec 09, 2015, 4:51 PM UTC

Obi_Juan_Kenobi wrote: post #80

slantedview wrote: post #71

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Confirming it based on the same leaked information which can't entirely be corroborated.

The interesting thing about these claims is that they tie so many parties together, I think ongoing investigations will be able to figure out whether all of this is true. While so much seems 'too good to be true' and potentially a plant, it is quite incredible that someone would put this all together after the fact to make a perfect fitting story. Either some ends won't meet, or we'll have the answer at long last.

Post by o_nate » Wed, Dec 09, 2015, 5:28 PM UTC

kijin wrote: post #112

maaarghk wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's plausible particularly because he emailed someone asking them to leak his message about not being Dorian, and that person heavily edited / redacted it; it's quite possible that is a recurring theme. Also in the Gawker article we are told Wright emailed Kleiman asking for "help editing a paper", "I need your help and I need a version of me to make this work that is better than me."

Notice that most of Wright's retroactive editing to make himself look like Satoshi took place in 2013-2014, shortly after Kleiman died. Perhaps Kleiman was the one who really wanted to keep Satoshi's identity a secret, but Wright had different ambitions and now he doesn't have his friend to rein him in anymore.