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"In the Jan of 2009 when Hal and Satoshi were working on Bitcoin Alpha version, Hal encountered an error with the software and he posted the debug log to the ma
by petertodd 5y ago
"In the Jan of 2009 when Hal and Satoshi were working on Bitcoin Alpha version, Hal encountered an error with the software and he posted the debug log to the mailing list."
The "dox" assumes that only three people were using Bitcoin at the time, and thus one of them must be Satoshi. That's a bad assumption, as Bitcoin was publicly available at that time, and was announced on the public cryptography mailing list, and we know for a fact that a few people tried it out early on.
The IRC initial seeding mechanism was _not_ mandatory to use, let alone full time. So it wouldn't be surprising at all if Satoshi wasn't using it.
"This is not a TOR exit node which implies that this is the IP address used by Satoshi on 2009-01-10 and he was in Van Nuys on this day"
It's not a TOR exit node in 2016, when this article is published. That doesn't tell us anything about 2009.
- victor22 5y agoPeter himself! Thank you for your work, I had a great time chatting with you in Colombia back in 2017. Cheers!
- davidgerard 5y agoyeah, the leak is 2009-01-10, two days after Bitcoin 0.1 dropped
- finite_jest 5y agoAs per LinuxBender's comment [1], ExoneraTor [2] tells us it hasn't been a TOR relay in 2009 either. I think Szabo is the most likely Satoshi candidate. He seems to have disappeared from public view since March, despite being a prolific Twitter [2]. I hope he is doing well, chilling on a beach in a Caribbean island. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729498 [2]: https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html?ip=68.164.57.219×tamp=2009-01-10&lang=en https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html?ip=68.164.57.... [3]: https://twitter.com/nickszabo4 https://twitter.com/nickszabo4
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