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Satoshi is the only very high profile person I’m aware of to remain completely (pseud)onymous. Many others have tried and failed (though they often broke the l
by rlt 4y ago
Satoshi is the only very high profile person I’m aware of to remain completely (pseud)onymous.
Many others have tried and failed (though they often broke the law, so that might be the main distinguishing factor)
- ghaff 4y agoLaw enforcement/intelligence services involvement raises the bar on maintaining anonymity a lot. They can access a lot of information that even an army of armchair sleuths probably can't.
- quickthrower2 4y agoSatoshi could be a government persona.
- philwelch 4y agoSatoshi also dropped off the face of the internet almost as soon as he became famous.
- zem 4y agoBanksy is way more famous than Satoshi and has remained pseudonymous
- j0hnyl 4y agoFrom what I understand art world folks very well know who Banksy is, but I don't think such is the case for the tech world and Satoshi.
- Adraghast 4y agoHardly just the art world. That he’s Robert Del Naja (aka 3D from Massive Attack) has been semi-public knowledge for a long time.
- MrOwnPut 4y agoI love there's no reference of that in his wikipedia article directly, but it appears 3 times in the referenced source titles: https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Robert_Del_Naja https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Robert_Del_Naja Out of curiosity, why do you believe it's not Robin Gunningham? That seems to be what https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy suggests, and the reasoning seems sound.
- imhoguy 4y agoProof? Please
- j0hnyl 4y agoBanksy is represented by the world's top gallerists. You think they don't know who they're doing business with?
- hgsgm 4y agoWhy would they care? They just have to meet with Banksy's agent. Knowing who Banksy is puts them at real risk of demystifying him/them and lowering their profit.
- SpeedilyDamage 4y agoYes.
- yieldcrv 4y agoits only entertainment that Banksy is anonymous, the fact you haven't looked this up bolsters the point personas are good enough information, it satisfies the curiosity well enough to not dig deeper
- vmoore 4y agoBanksy is purportedly Robin Cunningham. Google is the greatest OSINT tool ever created.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoAnyone who has access to to passenger rosters of flights going in and out of Britain can figure out who he is pretty easily.
- rco8786 4y agoBanksy Daft Punk Deadmau5 Members of KISS (for a while) Blue Man Group But if you're following the advice in this article...nobody should ever know that you're not actually a real person. So you might "know" lots of folks online who are not who they say they are.
- prmoustache 4y agoThe identity and face of Daft Punk are very well known. Thomas Bangalter and Guillaume-Manuel de Homem-Christo have been djing without mask outside of that specific project.
- ahoya 4y ago[dead]
- slyall 4y agoI don't think the members of KISS were ever anonymous. They wore makeup on stage but widely used their real names.
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- rlt 4y agoDeadmau5 isn't anonymous.
- staindk 4y agoNot "monetarily" as high value as some of the other examples here, but Icefrog, the lead developer/game balancer for Dota and Dota 2 is also mostly pseudonymous. I think if it weren't for some stupid comments by a League developer (?), no normal people would know who he is. Now, if you try hard enough, you can find his identity leaked in an old blog/forum post (?) and have it proven/corroborated in other areas online I think.
- MagicMoonlight 4y agoBecause he’s not a real person. He’s a CIA or NSA project. It’s like the group “Anonymous” that conveniently only shows up when the CIA has an objective and then disappears again.
- defrost 4y agoJust another Nicolas Bourbaki crippled by threshold multisig cryptography I'm afraid.