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Just sign a message using the pubkey in the genesis block and I'll admit it. No questions asked. Just like Charlie Lee did for Litecoin here: https://twitter.c

Just sign a message using the pubkey in the genesis block and I'll admit it. No questions asked. Just like Charlie Lee did for Litecoin here: https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/727157971428331520 https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/727157971428331520 (he did it to show just how easy and provable it is) Anything less and I have to question it or call bullshit. Current state is complete bullshit. Moving coin from early blocks is not nearly as good. Bitcoin was publicized early on a few mailing lists so it'd be entirely possible he's just an early user trying to game himself up as the creator. Statistical evidence combined with moving early coin could be semi-convincing, but still not as simple and absolute as a single signature using the pubkey in the genesis block. Proving this is dead easy and that signature is the on/off bit for me.

curiousgal 10y ago
What if, and this is a big IF, he is Satoshi and somehow "lost" that key? Heck what if the real Satoshi lost that key, how would he make us believe him if he were to step out of the shadows?
- MBCook 10y ago
  Then Satoshi is, for the purpose Bitcoin, dead. If there is no way to prove who Satoshi really was, what other term could we use?
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    > Then Satoshi is, for the purpose Bitcoin, dead. If there is no way to prove who Satoshi really was, what other term could we use? "Satoshi's identity is unknowable" would be a more accurate description of that scenario that "Satoshi is dead".
    - curiousgal 10y ago
      Well, speaking of dead, here's an interesting theory. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hnbli/did_someone_rule_out_kleiman_wrights_dead_friend/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hnbli/did_someone...
- verytrivial 10y ago
  Well, if the key has been destroyed, to a first approximation there is no Satoshi in my book. Identity has a specific meaning here, control of the private key. If he had that, but lost it, he will only gain mere celebrity at best and at worst infamy with these histrionics.
a_t48 10y ago
Maybe he lost\destroyed it? (:

curiousgal 10y ago

What if, and this is a big IF, he is Satoshi and somehow "lost" that key? Heck what if the real Satoshi lost that key, how would he make us believe him if he were to step out of the shadows?

MBCook 10y ago
Then Satoshi is, for the purpose Bitcoin, dead. If there is no way to prove who Satoshi really was, what other term could we use?
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > Then Satoshi is, for the purpose Bitcoin, dead. If there is no way to prove who Satoshi really was, what other term could we use? "Satoshi's identity is unknowable" would be a more accurate description of that scenario that "Satoshi is dead".
  - curiousgal 10y ago
    Well, speaking of dead, here's an interesting theory. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hnbli/did_someone_rule_out_kleiman_wrights_dead_friend/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hnbli/did_someone...
verytrivial 10y ago
Well, if the key has been destroyed, to a first approximation there is no Satoshi in my book. Identity has a specific meaning here, control of the private key. If he had that, but lost it, he will only gain mere celebrity at best and at worst infamy with these histrionics.

a_t48 10y ago

Maybe he lost\destroyed it? (: