I find it interesting that they used computers (ai, etc) to analyse the text to reduce suspects in a way that gets them the answer they are looking for. Yet they didn't use computers/ai to analyse the corpus of texts. Seems like the wrong way round. I suspect they used it for everything, which is cool, but I'm wondering why not just say that.
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Re: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
#732If you're following the Satoshi "archeology", you should definitely check out Sergio Lerner's analysis of the early mining patterns. He provides a fascinating forensic look at the actual machines Satoshi likely used, using data like endianness and nonce-incrementing behavior to reconstruct the original mining environment [1][2].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVXC1Lf00k
[2] https://bitslog.com/2020/08/22/the-patoshi-mining-machine/
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#733Pretty compelling story. Not necessarily for its revelations, but for the fact that John Carreyrou and the NYT decided to publish it at all. If it were by anyone else, I would have stopped reading after the first thousand words of meandering narrative, but Carreyrou is staking his massive and impeccable investigative journalistic reputation on this mountain of circumstantial evidence and statistical analysis. Him tor…
Also, Szabo's whole reputation comes from bit gold and years of writing about exactly these ideas
I'm almost 100% certain he's the creator of Bitcoin. I didn't need to see his technical chops to suspect it -- all I needed was to read his article from 2002 which discusses the whole concept and key ideas that Bitcoin is currently based on: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/shelling-out/
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#734Earlier quoted context omitted.
1.1m Bitcoin is currently $77B not $7B. Gold is a weird one. It’s has a hell of a run over the last decade. I’m not sure it looked so rosy in 2015. I kinda feel like betting on gold is betting on the end of civilization. I don’t really want to be right.
Lmao, it's $70B+ brother. Zeros aren't for everyone. :")
At the time of writing this the USD price of BTC is $70,934.09. 1.1m times that is $78,027,499,000 or $78B.
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#735Earlier quoted context omitted.
He was not blogging under his real name. Scott Alexander is not his real name.
It's most of his name. Long before his full name became common knowledge, you could already Google "Scott Alexander psychiatrist" and find him almost instantly.
That part of things is what really made this entire argument all apart of me.
There are ~50k psychiatrists in the US. Roughly, 1 in 10k people in the US is named Scott. Mathematically, that means knowing "Scott is a psychiatrist" brings you down to ~5 people. Even if we assume there's some outlier clustering of people named Scott who are psychiatrists, we're still talking about some small number.
Surely adding in the middle name essentially makes him uniquely identifiable without an other corroborating information.
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#736Earlier quoted context omitted.
Incredible, some people think that minorities can't be racist, by that definition Japanese weren't at all racist in 1937 Nanjing.
There’s a context to that you’re missing. The people saying that are usually using the formulation that racism = prejudice + power. So can black people in the U.K. be prejudiced? Yes, definitely. Racist? They’d need to be in a position of authority for it to matter. Other people use the formulation racism = prejudice about race, and end up talking past each other.
There's a term for that: systemic racism. The redefining racism thing just comes from a bunch of people who wanted to be racist without admitting racism -- often, ironically, from a position of power.
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#737Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you were to attempt to transfer money out if those wallets it would have a knock on effect on the price.
Which is why fining the owners of the wallets should be a huge deal: they can crash bitcoin whenever is most convenient for them. It always baffles me that people have near religious faith in a Holy Satoshi that walks away from billions of dollars “for the sake of the game”. If he’s really so unconcerned with money or fame, it would be far more interesting for him to build it up precisely to blow it down. That’s some…
Why do you assume the original creator(s) still have the keys to those wallets? Wouldn't it be extremely unlikely that they didn't make use of them by now if that was the case? This is well beyond sell your soul money for most people.
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#738I'm Satoshi Nakamoto. AMA.
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#739Earlier quoted context omitted.
Incredible, some people think that minorities can't be racist, by that definition Japanese weren't at all racist in 1937 Nanjing.
There’s a context to that you’re missing. The people saying that are usually using the formulation that racism = prejudice + power. So can black people in the U.K. be prejudiced? Yes, definitely. Racist? They’d need to be in a position of authority for it to matter. Other people use the formulation racism = prejudice about race, and end up talking past each other.
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#740I'm Satoshi Nakamoto. AMA.
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