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Isn't it convenient that, right when there's a minor cascade of failures in Bitcoin related things, a journalist from Newsweek just happens to figure out who Satoshi Nakamoto must be?
Do you have a hypothesized conspiracy or causal link that you would like to share, or are you just commenting on coincidences?
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Re: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto
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Do you have a hypothesized conspiracy or causal link that you would like to share, or are you just commenting on coincidences?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7357862
I think that is entirely plausible, but I don't really see how Newsweek comes into it. Having a fall-guy in case the shit hits the fan is a bit different from throwing the shit at the fan yourself (the NSA tipping off Newsweek?) and having a fall guy for that.
Re: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto
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Too late. Whether he his or not, the court of public opinion has already judged him, and he's being chased around LA by "journalists". http://gawker.com/bitcoin-inventor-denies-newsweek-story-aft... This is Gawker, so take it with a truckload of salt. It's mostly just a rehash of several sources.
That sequence of tweets reads like something out of Snow Crash.
William Gibson himself invented a better story:
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/441766075005276160 https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/441767131605000192
Re: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto
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All you people talking about violent crime .., I mean, what, do you think the Bloods and the Crips are following the world of bitcoin? I think the bigger story here, much more interesting than whether this person is Santoshi, is the kind of sociological story of nerd obsession with and belief systems about Bitcoin.
LA gangs contain a lot of people of which at least a few will be clued up on Bitcoin. And quite a lot more will be clued up now Dorian has hit main stream news. Also a few desperate out of work in heavy debt old IT workers might do something stupid. But I would be mostly worried about the mob. Italian and Russian mafia is reputed to create a large part of their wealth today by online scams and phishing, so they will…
You haven't explain why he and his family should be anymore paranoid by fear than any other moderately wealthy people. Why don't all your mafia people just watch CNBC?
Re: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto
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LA gangs contain a lot of people of which at least a few will be clued up on Bitcoin. And quite a lot more will be clued up now Dorian has hit main stream news. Also a few desperate out of work in heavy debt old IT workers might do something stupid. But I would be mostly worried about the mob. Italian and Russian mafia is reputed to create a large part of their wealth today by online scams and phishing, so they will…
You haven't explain why he and his family should be anymore paranoid by fear than any other moderately wealthy people. Why don't all your mafia people just watch CNBC?
"$400m" is not moderately wealthy, it's extremely wealthy.
Most moderately or even extremely wealthy people are obscure. One of the wealthiest people I've worked for had a saying: "it's good to be wealthy but not famous." He dressed like a slob, drove a generic Japanese car, lived in a moderate house but in Los Altos (i.e., given the money he went for a safer location as opposed to a gigantic house), and so forth... He never once talked about finance issues despite being involved in angel investments, exits, etc... Most importantly, you'd never see his name in a press release much less in a newspaper story (except once I think, where he was referred to as an engineer as opposed to his actual title).
However, Dorian Nakomoto's situation is far worse in that he's perceived as wealthy, but actually isn't: so he can't afford security, lawyers, a gated house (remember, he went through foreclosure -- he can barely afford a house at all!), and so on forth... He's sixty five years old, his mother is 90. He can't run, he's post-stroke so he likely won't be able defend himself even with a firearm. He also has much more at stake than others: he can't simply hand the home invaders or extortionists the money if, e.g., one of his relatives is kidnapped. Is this so hard to understand? Do you personally hate bitcoin so much that you're willing to be an apologist for endangerment of someone who isn't even involved in bitcoin?
Re: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto
#186Hmmmmm. Assuming the post was made by the actual Satoshi... Dorian Nakamoto is Satoshi: This is an attempt by him to throw people off his scent, which would be foolish and desperate since chances are the millions of eyes focused on him will find more concrete proof than the Newsweek article, rendering the posting moot. Almost guaranteeing the drama will continue, if not whip it into a larger frenzy. Dorian Nakamoto i…
What if Dorian is not Satoshi, but Satoshi knows that by doing shady stuff like what he just did, it will just reinforce the idea we have that Dorian is Satoshi