Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi

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Post by Zikes » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 5:01 PM UTC

Delmania wrote: post #48

lucb1e wrote: post #19

Goddamnit guys. Let him be. Come on. Are we hackers here or are we paparazzi? I thought Hacker News was a club of quality-valuing people that saw the world from a hacker's perspective and questioned the status quo. My view is shifting with every comment posted here.

Hi, newsflash "hackers" are people too, and who doesn't love being in the spotlight?

Yes, there are people in the world with poor manners and still more people that have lapses in judgement, but neither is an excuse for dismissing civility altogether in a community that selects for it.

These people are trying to doxx a man using the excuse that he is a public figure, as if that strips him of his humanity. It's a positively shameful behavior, and should not be encouraged or allowed to continue.

Re: Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 5:02 PM UTC

Zikes wrote: post #44

I think we're at the point now where we need a mod to step in and delete this entire post. You guys are literally trying to doxx this man.

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Re: Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi

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Post by gcb0 » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 5:03 PM UTC

out7 wrote: post #29

sktrdie wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There seems no transaction of the amount of 1 BTC.

"He bought 2 crepes and paid using his smartphone and our QR code with btc address. One crepe and a lemonade was 1 bitcoin at that time :)" He didn't pay 1 BTC

So it has to be between 1 and 2 btc?

Re: Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi

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Post by swalsh » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 5:04 PM UTC

rdlecler37 wrote: post #2

Do you know which BitCoin it is? This is a collectors piece and you can probably trace its lineage!

Do we have enough information to track the 10k bitcoins used to buy the first pizza?

Re: Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 5:04 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #45

jellicle wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, disclosing the transaction ID would demonstrate the real cornerstone of bitcoin: the fact that when you get your fingernail under the surface, the whole thing peels up. Identifying Satoshi's account would likely reveal a great deal of information about him and his dealings, and the de-anonymizing can occur anytime, even years or centuries after the fact.

I have a question about Bitcoin: If someone spends some bitcoin at a cafe, then spends some at the XXX porn shop down the street, can the cafe look at the block chain and deduce that the person visited the porn shop?

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Re: Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi

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Post by rmc » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 5:05 PM UTC

No wonder Satoshi wanted to be anonymous. People are already tracing the transaction and the BitCoin.

Though it might just be a lesson in how "anonymous" bitcoin transactions actually are.

Re: Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi

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Post by gcb0 » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

>Invents a currency that allows all your received and paid values to be tracked by the entire world.

>Says it's anonymous.

Good luck with that.

Re: Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi

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Post by vitd » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

Zikes wrote: post #44

I think we're at the point now where we need a mod to step in and delete this entire post. You guys are literally trying to doxx this man.

He's already been doxxed by Newsweek. They even published a picture of his house with the street address clearly visible.

Re: Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi

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Post by Zikes » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 5:08 PM UTC

vitd wrote: post #58

Zikes wrote: post #44

I think we're at the point now where we need a mod to step in and delete this entire post. You guys are literally trying to doxx this man.

He's already been doxxed by Newsweek. They even published a picture of his house with the street address clearly visible.

That's no excuse and you know it.

Re: Tell HN: Meeting Satoshi

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Post by samfisher83 » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

Eventually the government is going to come after him. If you just happen to be sitting on 400 million without paying taxes the government is going to be interested.