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Or not: https://cryptonews.net/news/bitcoin/27725030 https://cryptonews.net/news/bitcoin/27725030 > According to the race data, Finney competed in the “Santa B
by lqet 3y ago
Or not: https://cryptonews.net/news/bitcoin/27725030 https://cryptonews.net/news/bitcoin/27725030
> According to the race data, Finney competed in the “Santa Barbara Running Company Chardonnay 10 Miler & 5K,” starting at 8 am Pacific time and finishing the race at 78 minutes.
> The race, however, coincides with timestamped emails between Satoshi and one of the first Bitcoin developers, Mike Hearn.
- ionwake 3y ago[flagged]
- riffic 3y agoan email can be sent by cron, this seems like a convenient alibi to craft
- ionwake 3y agoi doubt he was crafting cron jobs to send emails when he had no idea bitcoin would get big and he had a marathon to do. tbh I think I can guess a good way to figure out who it was but I am unsure what the incentive would be, and unfortunately it would require effort. EDIT> Am I being downvoted by people upset that I am suggesting it wasn't Hal or because of my nebulous statement? Oh nvm
- uicompat 3y agoIf only it could fit in these damned margins! I’ll bite, what’s your “good guess to figure it out”?
- ionwake 3y agolol nah man nothing special just reading this thread is more useful than anything.
- throwaway11460 3y agoIsn't the whole Bitcoin design based on the idea that it's going to get big?
- cdchn 3y agoDesigning for scalability and expectation of success are two different things to plan for.
- throwaway11460 3y agoSeems like that in literally every other case, Satoshi Nakamoto designed for both.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoIsn’t literally every startup business plan based on the idea that it’s going to get big?
- throwaway11460 3y agoYes, Bitcoin is not a startup though - they saw it as social movement
- fnordpiglet 3y agoMy point is hubris applies to all human efforts. But even when feeling hubris you don’t know what the future holds. No one can know the importance of any of their actions in the present, and even when you embark on something you expect could change everything, no one is assured of success. In fact practical experience tells us it almost never actually happens. When someone does actually succeed it’s easy to see omniscience in their insights, and it’s arguably insightful, but only the insane believe that themselves when they set out.
- throwaway11460 3y agoHe doesn't need to believe/be sure of it it on order to design for the possibility
- alchemist1e9 3y agowasn’t it multiple reply/response of emails during that same short 78 minute time period?
- natdempk 3y agoThere are more details addressing a bunch of the first thoughts people might have here: https://blog.lopp.net/hal-finney-was-not-satoshi-nakamoto/ https://blog.lopp.net/hal-finney-was-not-satoshi-nakamoto/
- ionwake 3y agoThank you for posting this it was a great read
- kerkeslager 3y agoTimestamped emails? That's not cryptographic proof.
- api 3y agoSatoshi may have been more than one person, but Hal Finney is a good candidate for one of the core designers and someone who was involved.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoAnd if he was more than one person, I've never seen any proof that that more-than-one person group could not also include Hearn, and that part of crafting a Satoshi pseudo-identity was to create alibis for those most likely to be suspected of being especially as those involved were highly familiar with, and created bitcoin in its decentralized-ish form precisely to avoid the fates of those centrally involved with earlier e-money products. But no, any attempt to investigate the origins of Satoshi will be viciously attacked by the same twenty or so individuals who show up everywhere to defend this modern day hermes trismegistus mystery, which has proved infinitely useful, not to mention fun, to keep propped up.