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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.
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I worked with him at PGP in 2000.
Do you have any opinion about whether he could be Satoshi?
I guess the best way to sum it up is that if he was Satoshi, i wouldnt be shocked.
Also, sux hes gone.
It’s kind of hard to believe that given the amount and technical forensic evidence that must have been left by Satoshi we don’t know who they are. Coding style and mannerism. Windows, Mac, Linux? IP addresses or user agent logged anywhere (mailing list)? Comment structure and style. Git / SVN commits. English writing style and mannerism. Digital fingerprints. Surely there must be a technical trail to investigate.
The probably is, but I'm guessing the really definitive records would probably require a subpoena to obtain (e.g. business records of the domain registrar or hosting company).
Pretty sure Len thought Bitcoin was a profound abortion of an idea: https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/77358901774917632 > Right; why would they [mention Bitcoin in the cypherpunk panel on digital currencies], though? Bitcoin pretty much fails as a cypherpunk protocol. https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/81121594373709825 > That only works if you want to leave the inflated value of Bitcoin on the table; otherw…
The Unix vs Windows argument is pretty silly. And as mentioned in other comments, the 2014 email is generally regarded as not legitimate.
Pretty sure Len thought Bitcoin was a profound abortion of an idea: https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/77358901774917632 > Right; why would they [mention Bitcoin in the cypherpunk panel on digital currencies], though? Bitcoin pretty much fails as a cypherpunk protocol. https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/81121594373709825 > That only works if you want to leave the inflated value of Bitcoin on the table; otherw…
Satoshi seemed to think BTC was getting too much attention too fast. They were unhappy about WikiLeaks accepting it thinking it was far too premature for that.
They also were clear that it did NOT yet provide full anonymity. The whitepaper admits that and Satoshi advised precautions like using Tor and not reusing wallets until there was better privacy. They never claimed it was mature for privacy use cases.
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Thats a serious sci-fi plot right there. Man cryonically freezes himself after inventing a cryptocurrency, wakes up in the far future the richest man in the world.
Bitcoin is already pretty freaking sci-fi-plottish.
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Thats a serious sci-fi plot right there. Man cryonically freezes himself after inventing a cryptocurrency, wakes up in the far future the richest man in the world.
Guessing you haven't seen Futurama. Not the same exact plot of course, but I immediately thought of it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fishful_of_Dollars
They'd also be the typical Human Popsicle tropes about how horrified he'd be by how his creation was used.
My money (er, bitcoin) is on Hal Finney. I knew Hal from occupying the dorm room next to mine at Caltech. Being Satoshi is just the kind of elaborate prank Hal would have loved. Besides, I've never met anyone as smart as Hal, and I've met a lot of smart people. In his last interview (when he could no longer speak) he was asked if he was Satoshi, and he just grinned. As for where the missing bitcoins are, my bitcoin i…
It's like people always imagine aliens would appear in the middle of NYC. Maybe Satoshi is a South African student in Glasgow, who moved back with his family to Germany and is shaking his head at BTC's evolution now that he grew up beyond "bruh banks bad" ? He did an overly inefficient distributed linked list, which is replicated thousands of times by smaller projects to yield exactly the same value (the "bruh banks…
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Do you have any opinion about whether he could be Satoshi?
Dunno, Len was a crazy smart dude, and total crypto geek. That said, I didn't work with him much, I was just handed off to his project for a few weeks while waiting for one of mine to ramp back up. I guess the best way to sum it up is that if he was Satoshi, i wouldnt be shocked. Also, sux hes gone.