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That's not particularly surprising. If you're smart enough to implement and seed a distributed Merkle tree ledger you're smart enough to extrapolate the implica
by hinda 10y ago
That's not particularly surprising. If you're smart enough to implement and seed a distributed Merkle tree ledger you're smart enough to extrapolate the implications of indiscriminately offering yourself as an indefinitely persisted data feed.
- Retra 10y agoThat's a nice rationalization of the situation, but history shows that being smart enough to do one thing has almost no correlation with being smart enough to do any other specific thing that wasn't already necessary to do the first. I doubt the ability to implement blockchains has anything to do with such socio-political analysis, and so should you.
- bduerst 10y agoI would say expertise in cryptography correlates with expertise in keeping your information private, no?
- scintill76 10y agoExpertise yes, but not necessarily desire to keep your information private. There are many expert cryptographers who are much more public than Satoshi.
- bduerst 10y agoIt wasn't a question of motive, but of skill.
- ska 10y agoThat's a good way of putting it. Many other people in a similar position may have chosen to be public. Many other people would have chosen to remain private but failed at. It takes skill to chose to remain private about something like this in a way the remains (at least so far) resistant to at least som concerted skilled effort to find you.