Len Sassaman and Satoshi

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 12:50 AM UTC

Meekro wrote: post #8

axiosgunnar wrote: post #2

It‘s a pretty strong case for Len to be Satoshi, admittedly. And it would explain the mysterious silence from Satoshi Nakamoto - he's dead. Of course one could argue that Satoshi is alive and choses to be silent on purpose, since being worth tens of billions of dollars might come with some strings attached, ie kidnappings, black mail, extortions etc. But one would have to have a rather strong personality to not give…

Len is a good candidate, but here's one problem: Satoshi spoke up in 2014 on a long-dormant account[1] to say "I am not Dorian Nakamoto." This was a response to a Newsweek article that claimed to have found his identity. So maybe someone hacked that account-- but then, why didn't we get any more Satoshi activity? Or maybe Len (who took his own life in 2011) isn't Satoshi after all! [1] http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/f…

Post by modeless » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 12:57 AM UTC

mgarfias wrote: post #9

carterschonwald wrote: post #6

I actually met Len in 2010/2011 when he was visiting the Dartmouth cs dept! We talked about noodlers being an excellent fountain pen ink and some stuff around functional programming that overlap with the language base security ideas Sergey Bratus and Meredith Patterson went on to popularize. I also have a distinct memory that he had a very well decorated walking cane. Edit: I do think that this post, while having val…

I worked with him at PGP in 2000.

Post by kragen » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 1:01 AM UTC

Post by perseusmandate » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 1:10 AM UTC

Meekro wrote: post #8

axiosgunnar wrote: post #2

It‘s a pretty strong case for Len to be Satoshi, admittedly. And it would explain the mysterious silence from Satoshi Nakamoto - he's dead. Of course one could argue that Satoshi is alive and choses to be silent on purpose, since being worth tens of billions of dollars might come with some strings attached, ie kidnappings, black mail, extortions etc. But one would have to have a rather strong personality to not give…

Len is a good candidate, but here's one problem: Satoshi spoke up in 2014 on a long-dormant account[1] to say "I am not Dorian Nakamoto." This was a response to a Newsweek article that claimed to have found his identity. So maybe someone hacked that account-- but then, why didn't we get any more Satoshi activity? Or maybe Len (who took his own life in 2011) isn't Satoshi after all! [1] http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/f…

Post by shawnz » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 1:18 AM UTC

perseusmandate wrote: post #17

sneak wrote: post #12

> But with Craig Wright fraudulently claiming credit and invoking a copyright claim to take down the Bitcoin whitepaper, we’re forced to revisit the topic and recenter the discussion around the Cypherpunks who actually built Bitcoin. No, we're not. We can dismiss the fraudulent claims of Craig Wright without being "forced" to do anything else.

If that's the case why has Craig continued to gain prominence and have more and more sway over BTC? Bitcion SV is worth $4B now. He's been able to monopolize the mindshare on Satoshi and misdirect the narrative.