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If you're on the edge of your seat, let me dispense with the suspense: Len Sassaman. Anybody who's actually looked into this topic beyond reading someone else'
by big-green-man 2y ago
If you're on the edge of your seat, let me dispense with the suspense: Len Sassaman.
Anybody who's actually looked into this topic beyond reading someone else's theories and nodding in agreement knows the answer to this question. If the documentary is worth it's salt that will be it's answer as well. No other person who would've been connected to cypherpunk and cryptography groups at that time fits the bill better, and he fits it basically perfectly. I'm sure other early contributors also knew this, which is why https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/black-ops-of-tcpip-2011-black-hat-usa-2011/8776015 https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/black-ops-of-tcpip-2011...
- adastra22 2y agoYes, you are absolutely correct, but please don't continue to spread this. Len Sassaman left behind family and heirs, and although it is very unlikely that Satoshi's mining keys survived in any form, if this rumor spreads they will never be safe.
- School-Cotton 2y agoLen Sassaman is already very widely suspected to be Satoshi. Probably second only to Hal Finney. That ship has sailed.
- adastra22 2y agoAmong us technical folks. The kind of people likely to pull off a kidnapping aren’t going to know until this hits mainstream media.
- midmagico 2y agoComplete nonsense, lol.
- reducesuffering 2y agoIt’s so interesting how people are so confident in multiple different people that have known exculpatory issues. Stylometry and code style doesn’t match at all.
- big-green-man 2y agoWriting stylometry matches close to perfectly, and matches much better than any other proposed person. Double space after period (not uncommon) and a mix of British and american spelling (very uncommon) were the points that sold me on it being him. Disappearance date is compelling as well.
- ablation 2y agoI'm really enjoying the multiple confident assertions that it's different people in this thread. Kind of a spoiler for the documentary I guess: it'll be another confident assertion about someone, with as satisfying a conclusion as all these comments.