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This is a very long read but incredibly interesting. I'm only mildly in to crypo, but I had no idea there were old forums I could read through. https://bitcoin
by soared 6y ago
This is a very long read but incredibly interesting. I'm only mildly in to crypo, but I had no idea there were old forums I could read through.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823.0
In that thread they identify an integer overflow attack, and satoshi troubleshoots it, writes a fix, and releases it. They talk about how to get miners onto the right chain and affects it will have on difficulty and missing BTC. August 2010!
- leoh 6y agoWild -- the forum must have his IP address, no?
- esdf 6y agoI’m more interested in the original registrar (and ICANN?) of bitcoin.org having a name and payment that likely links directly to Satoshi. I would be amazed if nobody / nogovernment has looked at that information.
- ChainOfFools 6y agoas would his original email provider, GMX. and a few other entities, like his ISP. it's not as if he was posting from within TOR or something. but efforts to inquire about this information have been harshly discouraged (or more often, just sent to dev/null) by anyone close to such sources. plus years of time elapsed between bitcoin-the-obscure-niche-project and bitcoin-the-global-progressive-lotto-jackpot, and logs etc may have been flushed before anyone recognized the significance of what they would reveal. 20 years from now, digital archeologists trying to piece together the real origin story of bitcoin will have their work cut out for them.