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Where can I find more about this?
by Daffodils 5y ago
Where can I find more about this?
- stjohnswarts 5y agojust google "how did satoshi stay anonymous" and you should find tons of info. it was pretty well known and widely discussed.
- rosndo 5y agoFWIW we don’t know if Satoshi remained anonymous. We just know that he wasn’t conclusively identified by relatively unsophisticated internet commenters and journalists. OTOH there were many times when Satoshi connected to IRC with non-Tor residential IPs, it’s possible that deanonymization was just one subpoena away.
- bduerst 5y agoYep, it's survivor bias to assume Satoshi's methods were effective, because he could be incarcerated or kidnapped or traced with his methods and it would not be general knowledge.
- philwelch 5y agoThe next question is, what does it mean that no state-level actors publicly identified Satoshi either?
- cosentiyes 5y agoThat he declared his taxes appropriately?
- philwelch 5y agoNo, that either they didn’t identify him as a threat, or that he was a fed all along (in which case, fair enough, the feds also invented Tor, they do cool shit occasionally).
- rosndo 5y agoOr even if they did identify him as a threat, they could’ve kept the information to themselves for leverage. There is literally zero information you could extract from this besides the fact that he probably didn’t do anything indictment-worthy.