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So Either 1) Linus Torvalds is asserting he is Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin. 2) Someone hacked Linus’ GitHub account. 3) Someone used a technique on gi
by sneilan1 5y ago
So Either
1) Linus Torvalds is asserting he is Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin.
2) Someone hacked Linus’ GitHub account.
3) Someone used a technique on git to change the author and claim they are Satoshi.
IMO: Most likely is 2 or 3.
- luke2m 5y ago> This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. So, #3
- franciscop 5y agoNeither; this is some random text in a fork's branch, not the main repo, that Github allows to show up as part of the main repo somehow. Terrible UX from Github's side that leads to people thinking this is part of the main repo. (So it's not 3rd because they didn't "change the author" on master, it's just not on master).
- chaosite 5y agoActually, it's more likely that it's: 2b) Someone is using GitHub trickery to display a commit in another repo as belonging to that repo (see other comments), without actually compromising any accounts. 4) Linus decided on a funny name for the release.