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Anybody who has the skills to identify the creator of Bitcoin would not sit on it waiting for an HBO documentary. I'm guessing they're just going to say Hal Fin

Anybody who has the skills to identify the creator of Bitcoin would not sit on it waiting for an HBO documentary. I'm guessing they're just going to say Hal Finney without any new evidence. Safer than saying Szabo who could push back since he's alive.

stainablesteel 2y ago
my moneys on le roux
- reducesuffering 2y ago
  it's not
- cypherpunks01 2y ago
  It's intriguing, but writing and coding style seemed to be totally different iirc? And to me, the whole Halfin-key signed message thing that Shkreli posted kind of seemed to point away from LeRoux due to the suspicious circumstances.
- readthenotes1 2y ago
  Funny! But who's your cryptocurrency on??
- IncreasePosts 2y ago
  Le Roux's current fate is: 1) Sit in a prison in NJ until he is 70+ years old. 2) When he is released, immediately be deported to the Philippines where he will face another trial, and get thrown in jail for the rest of his life. If he had $50B+ in BTC, why wouldn't he break out of the not super secure prison in New Jersey, and go live like a king in Indonesia or something?
SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago
I'm guessing it was a national intelligence agency trying to create a mostly deniable way to pay their agents.
philsquared_ 2y ago
Adam Back. Ever notice how anytime anyone mentions his name as possibly being satoshi they get buried? Not a coincidence. Plus Adam had no work history during the dates that Bitcoin was created. Had created the system that bitcoin is based on and never produced the emails of him and Satoshi that supposedly existed. Remember the first email from Satoshi mentions he got "your email from Adam Back". Google also manipulated the search engine results for "Satoshi is Adam Back" for years and basically censored the results for that query.. The list goes on. He is the most obvious candidate and likely the reason he was chosen to head core (I mean he literally wrote hash cash which is basically Bitcoin version 1)
- thisconnect 2y ago
  Adam is mentioned in the Bitcoin white paper. Would you he have done that if he was Satoshi?
  - defrost 2y ago
    Without taking a position either way on who Satoshi is; Yes, of course he would have. Clearly 'Satoshi' intended from the outset to obfuscate their identity. Given that axiom many behaviours become probable, including referencing a true identity (or three*) in the paper. * Satoshi could, of course, be Yet Another Nicolas Bourbaki with a shared voting key of sorts; that's an easy explanation for relative silence over the years if a group cannot or will not reach consensus on action.
- adastra22 2y ago
  It is absolutely not Adam Back. The bitcoin protocol is not based on Adam Back's work (though Adam loves to claim otherwise). When Adam came to the bitcoin scene in 2013, he harbored some very large misconceptions about the incentive structure and capabilities of bitcoin.
- reducesuffering 2y ago
  No. Satoshi IP leaked in LA when Back wasn’t there. Back’s stylometry is way off too. Those two should be enough for you to figure it out with some digging

stainablesteel 2y ago

my moneys on le roux

reducesuffering 2y ago
it's not
cypherpunks01 2y ago
It's intriguing, but writing and coding style seemed to be totally different iirc? And to me, the whole Halfin-key signed message thing that Shkreli posted kind of seemed to point away from LeRoux due to the suspicious circumstances.
readthenotes1 2y ago
Funny! But who's your cryptocurrency on??
IncreasePosts 2y ago
Le Roux's current fate is: 1) Sit in a prison in NJ until he is 70+ years old. 2) When he is released, immediately be deported to the Philippines where he will face another trial, and get thrown in jail for the rest of his life. If he had $50B+ in BTC, why wouldn't he break out of the not super secure prison in New Jersey, and go live like a king in Indonesia or something?

SAI_Peregrinus 2y ago

I'm guessing it was a national intelligence agency trying to create a mostly deniable way to pay their agents.

philsquared_ 2y ago

Adam Back. Ever notice how anytime anyone mentions his name as possibly being satoshi they get buried? Not a coincidence. Plus Adam had no work history during the dates that Bitcoin was created. Had created the system that bitcoin is based on and never produced the emails of him and Satoshi that supposedly existed. Remember the first email from Satoshi mentions he got "your email from Adam Back". Google also manipulated the search engine results for "Satoshi is Adam Back" for years and basically censored the results for that query.. The list goes on. He is the most obvious candidate and likely the reason he was chosen to head core (I mean he literally wrote hash cash which is basically Bitcoin version 1)

thisconnect 2y ago
Adam is mentioned in the Bitcoin white paper. Would you he have done that if he was Satoshi?
- defrost 2y ago
  Without taking a position either way on who Satoshi is; Yes, of course he would have. Clearly 'Satoshi' intended from the outset to obfuscate their identity. Given that axiom many behaviours become probable, including referencing a true identity (or three*) in the paper. * Satoshi could, of course, be Yet Another Nicolas Bourbaki with a shared voting key of sorts; that's an easy explanation for relative silence over the years if a group cannot or will not reach consensus on action.
adastra22 2y ago
It is absolutely not Adam Back. The bitcoin protocol is not based on Adam Back's work (though Adam loves to claim otherwise). When Adam came to the bitcoin scene in 2013, he harbored some very large misconceptions about the incentive structure and capabilities of bitcoin.
reducesuffering 2y ago
No. Satoshi IP leaked in LA when Back wasn’t there. Back’s stylometry is way off too. Those two should be enough for you to figure it out with some digging