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He's just one of several candidates[1], although I think the late Hal Finney is more likely to be Satoshi. Another theory is that the Satoshi persona was creat
by brndnmtthws 9y ago
He's just one of several candidates[1], although I think the late Hal Finney is more likely to be Satoshi.
Another theory is that the Satoshi persona was created by a group of individuals (cypherpunks) who were involved in the early Bitcoin community, including Hal Finney and Nick Szabo.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Possible_identities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Possible_iden...
- nugget 9y agoGiven how hard it is for any group of people to keep a secret, I've always thought it much more likely to be a single individual.
- eternalban 9y agoThe fact that intelligence services employing armies of people exist worldwide should be sufficient to disabuse you of that meme.
- brndnmtthws 9y agoAnd for those curious about Hal Finney, here's a fascinating post he wrote before his death: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0
- vernon99 9y agoExcept he didn't completely die, he was actually cryo-preserved. Although you can look at it in multiple ways.
- smitherfield 9y agoAll available evidence suggests that cryonics is likely pseudoscience in theory and certainly pseudoscience in practice. Irreversible brain damage occurs within seconds (and total brain death within minutes) of oxygen deprivation, and freezing cell tissue in water ice permanently destroys it.
- DiThi 9y agoWe don't really know. Cryonics avoid ice formation with cryoprotectants or via vitrification. And assuming there _is_ brain damage, in theory it's still possible to recover as long as the _information_ of the brain hasn't been destroyed. It's akin to having the mainboard and the read head of a hard disk destroyed, but having the plates intact.
- devrandomguy 9y agoWhat if we don't try to repair the body, but instead reconstruct it in a simulation? Even if the person's cells have all been mangled by ice crystals, a future medical team could conceivably map their neural network and estimate the strengths of the connections between neurons, with some futuristic high resolution scanning device. Maybe it doesn't matter that a frozen person is dead for now, if we could give their mind a virtual body transplant, and rehabilitate them in an idealized virtual environment.
- vernon99 9y agoYeah, as pointed above nobody's using ice for ages, your information is pretty outdated. Would also help if you would support your opinion by related research on the current state of the art cryo.