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Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adam Back. Ever notice how anytime anyone mentions his name as possibly being satoshi they get buried? Not a coincidence. Plus Adam had no work history during the dates that Bitcoin was created. Had created the system that bitcoin is based on and never produced the emails of him and Satoshi that supposedly existed. Remember the first email from Satoshi mentions he got "your email from Adam Back". Google also manipula…
Adam is mentioned in the Bitcoin white paper. Would you he have done that if he was Satoshi?
Without taking a position either way on who Satoshi is; Yes, of course he would have.
Clearly 'Satoshi' intended from the outset to obfuscate their identity.
Given that axiom many behaviours become probable, including referencing a true identity (or three*) in the paper.
* Satoshi could, of course, be Yet Another Nicolas Bourbaki with a shared voting key of sorts; that's an easy explanation for relative silence over the years if a group cannot or will not reach consensus on action.
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Disclosure of an inventor for Bitcoin is spectacularly technically interesting! I've been deploying continent-wide distributed industrial systems and writing, theorizing and producing prototypes for scalable digital money since before 2009 (when Bitcoin was "invented"). It was a gobsmacking breakthrough then -- and it has only gotten more interesting, as we discover the profound insights of its "inventor", by watchin…
> Disclosure of an inventor for Bitcoin is spectacularly technically interesting!
Sure. Okay. Point us to the disclosure. I couldn't find anything being disclosed.
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#54Unless there is hard evidence, I'd consider this a waste of time. I don't know the purpose of "revealing" Satoshi if he's someone who doesn't want the attention.
Could you provide some instances of how hard evidence might look like?
Proof, something that people can observe and recognize as true, not just circumstantial evidence. They should avoid repeating the Dorian Nakamoto situation.
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Could you provide some instances of how hard evidence might look like?
Proof, something that people can observe and recognize as true, not just circumstantial evidence. They should avoid repeating the Dorian Nakamoto situation.
Sure, but how would such a proof look like? How could one prove to be the real Nakamoto?
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#56Anybody who has the skills to identify the creator of Bitcoin would not sit on it waiting for an HBO documentary. I'm guessing they're just going to say Hal Finney without any new evidence. Safer than saying Szabo who could push back since he's alive.
Adam Back. Ever notice how anytime anyone mentions his name as possibly being satoshi they get buried? Not a coincidence. Plus Adam had no work history during the dates that Bitcoin was created. Had created the system that bitcoin is based on and never produced the emails of him and Satoshi that supposedly existed. Remember the first email from Satoshi mentions he got "your email from Adam Back". Google also manipula…
It is absolutely not Adam Back. The bitcoin protocol is not based on Adam Back's work (though Adam loves to claim otherwise). When Adam came to the bitcoin scene in 2013, he harbored some very large misconceptions about the incentive structure and capabilities of bitcoin.
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#57If you're on the edge of your seat, let me dispense with the suspense: Len Sassaman. Anybody who's actually looked into this topic beyond reading someone else's theories and nodding in agreement knows the answer to this question. If the documentary is worth it's salt that will be it's answer as well. No other person who would've been connected to cypherpunk and cryptography groups at that time fits the bill better, a…
Yes, you are absolutely correct, but please don't continue to spread this. Len Sassaman left behind family and heirs, and although it is very unlikely that Satoshi's mining keys survived in any form, if this rumor spreads they will never be safe.
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#58If you're on the edge of your seat, let me dispense with the suspense: Len Sassaman. Anybody who's actually looked into this topic beyond reading someone else's theories and nodding in agreement knows the answer to this question. If the documentary is worth it's salt that will be it's answer as well. No other person who would've been connected to cypherpunk and cryptography groups at that time fits the bill better, a…
Yes, you are absolutely correct, but please don't continue to spread this. Len Sassaman left behind family and heirs, and although it is very unlikely that Satoshi's mining keys survived in any form, if this rumor spreads they will never be safe.
Len Sassaman is already very widely suspected to be Satoshi. Probably second only to Hal Finney. That ship has sailed.
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Yes, you are absolutely correct, but please don't continue to spread this. Len Sassaman left behind family and heirs, and although it is very unlikely that Satoshi's mining keys survived in any form, if this rumor spreads they will never be safe.
Len Sassaman is already very widely suspected to be Satoshi. Probably second only to Hal Finney. That ship has sailed.
Among us technical folks. The kind of people likely to pull off a kidnapping aren’t going to know until this hits mainstream media.
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#60If you're on the edge of your seat, let me dispense with the suspense: Len Sassaman. Anybody who's actually looked into this topic beyond reading someone else's theories and nodding in agreement knows the answer to this question. If the documentary is worth it's salt that will be it's answer as well. No other person who would've been connected to cypherpunk and cryptography groups at that time fits the bill better, a…
Complete nonsense, lol.