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Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you there?
- system2 3y agoI know it is a fantasy but the real "Satoshi" responding to this post would do unfathomable things to Bitcoin right now. I just enjoyed the thought of it for a second.
- adastra22 3y agoSatoshi is dead, unfortunately.
- jonahbenton 3y agoWho was it, do you think?
- mr_sturd 3y agoMost likely Szabo.
- TacticalCoder 3y agoWait, is Nick Szabo dead? I find conflicting information on the Net.
- adastra22 3y agoThere's no way it was Szabo, although Szabo likes people to think it was him. Szabo's ideas for p2p currency were directly opposed to the structure of bitcoin, and he continued professing these views and critiques of bitcoin long after bitcoin was launched and achieved some measure of success.
- adastra22 3y agohttps://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c85c2b10 https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8...
- bmulcahy 3y agoMy money's on Hal Finney.
- greyface- 3y agoHow do you reconcile this with the fact that Satoshi sent both an email and a bitcoin transaction while Hal was busy running a 10 mile race? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37974155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37974155
- octopoc 3y agoHe died, yes. But then He rose again.
- kibwen 3y agoUnfortunately they sealed the tomb with a cryptographically-secure boulder this time and they've been waiting patiently in the dark for someone to decipher the pattern in the public keys so they can be released. (Obligatory disclaimer: this is a joke, do not go making a religion out of this.)
- lcof 3y agoBut was it military-grade encryption?
- sp332 3y agoDoes the diagram actually show something? It kinda looks like a uniform distribution.
- stephenitis 3y ago> While pursuing this approach, I've lost everything in my life and now find myself in financial and personal ruin. Just as I was losing hope, I extracted Satoshi's public keys and noticed a pattern. The letter 'S' in Satoshi corresponds to the 19th letter in the English alphabet, and in Japanese culture, 19 symbolizes 'intense suffering', which mirrors my current life situation.. humor?
- system2 3y agoMost definitely it is.
- tcmb 3y agoI think if OP was serious about solving a real mystery here, they would have posted to a cryptography forum, not 'bitcointalk'.
- mrkramer 3y ago>Could it be possible that Satoshi had found a way to 'break' the elliptic curve as early as 2009? >Is there a chance that these public keys represent a puzzle, intentionally designed by Satoshi, awaiting a solution? If you feel happier believing that then you are free to do so. Each of us have our own fantasies.
- odyssey7 3y agoDue to the tendency to patch and mitigate known security vulnerabilities, there is a norm within cryptography to assume that parties will possess technologies which are more advanced than are publicly disclosed.
- mrkramer 3y ago>there is a norm within cryptography to assume that parties will possess technologies which are more advanced than are publicly disclosed Who? Satoshi? Pseudonymous C++ programmer coding digital cash experiment in his home. Satoshi wasn't a cryptographer[0]. [0] https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-was-not-a-cryptographer-says-gavin-andresen https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-was-not-a-cryptograph...
- odyssey7 3y agoWell, who was in Satoshi’s orbit, and did Satoshi have an employer?