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If by some extremely small chance he is Satoshi And his identity was close to being revealed (I think his name was first lingering in the ether around August),
by alva 10y ago
If by some extremely small chance he is Satoshi And his identity was close to being revealed (I think his name was first lingering in the ether around August), this could be a truly beautiful sleight of hand.
Purposely release 'proof' you know could be quickly refuted. Get the papers covering you with lots of photos and unnecessary blurb about companies you have been involved in. Drag the whole ordeal out over a week or two. Would come across as a complete loony, attention seeker in the tech community no? Quickly forgotten about and dismissed as Satoshi for a long time.
Do note! I do not imagine this is the case, but wouldn't it be great if it was?
- kbenson 10y agoThe only thing greater would be if he actually was both a complete loony and all his claims were true. It would be interesting to have something as important and useful as Bitcoin have an origin such as that.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 10y agoIf the intent is to escape the "15 minutes of fame", this doesn't work... because you still endure the 15 minutes of fame. If the intent is to escape authorities and supervillains, this fails as well. They don't tend to discredit things without an actual investigation, which will reveal the ruse.
- Russell91 10y agoAnother interesting scenario is that Satoshi is working directly with Craig in order to lend his authority on the little/big-blockian debate to Craig. This would explain the mountain of evidence as well as Craig's apparent incompetence. Of course this conspiracy has a low prior probability due to it's complexity, but it does explain why the inventor of bitcoin would be 1) taking of screenshots of buggy code in notepad, 2) using factorial notation to enumerate combinatorics of bitstrings, and 3) being so generally dislikable.