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Sometimes I can't help but think that Dread Pirate Roberts is Satoshi. He would have created Bitcoin for the ultimate goal of enabling The Silk Road: - Notice

by mrb 13y ago

Sometimes I can't help but think that Dread Pirate Roberts is Satoshi. He would have created Bitcoin for the ultimate goal of enabling The Silk Road: - Notice how Satoshi disappeared from the community in late 2010, saying he is "moving to other projects", and The Silk Road opened in February 2011, a surprisingly early Bitcoin adopter. - DPR, like Satoshi, has a financial background and relates to Austrian economics: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collected-quotations-of-the-dread-pirate-roberts-founder-of-the-drug-site-silk-road-and-radical-libertarian/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collect... - Both DPR and Satoshi are known to prefer british spelling and expressions. - Both DPR and Satoshi have technical/cryptographic skillsets: they use TOR, PGP, etc. - One reason for Satoshi wanting to remain anonymous would be to hide his involvement with The Silk Road, as too much media attention on his life might uncover he is involved in an unknown/secret project.

StavrosK 13y ago
> Both DPR and Satoshi have technical/cryptographic skillsets: they use TOR, PGP, etc. That's like saying "both my grandmother and Michael Schumacher have automobile engineering backgrounds: They drive a car." Using cryptography and understanding it are two veeeeeery different things. Understanding cryptography and successfully creating/implementing your own protocol are even differenter.
Aqueous 13y ago
What, are you high? :) In all seriousness, it's an intriguing idea, and you point out some interesting parallels, but the idea of the Silk Road seems really small for someone like Satoshi Nakamoto, given that BitCoin is a work of unusual genius that potentially has world-changing power, and the Silk Road is about trafficking narcotics. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I want to think the creator of BitCoin has larger, more expansive goals in mind than getting people high or even undermining the war on drugs. Thinking that the creator of Silk Road is also the creator of BitCoin is like answering the question, "Why hasn't the miner of the first million BitCoins spent any of his currency?" by suggesting that Satoshi accidentally erased his wallet. Which would be hilarious. 'Fuck me,' I would imagine him saying.
- mrb 13y ago
  Read http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collected-quotations-of-the-dread-pirate-roberts-founder-of-the-drug-site-silk-road-and-radical-libertarian/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collect... to understand the world-changing ambition that DPR has. The Silk Road is a lot more than trafficking narcotics for DPR. To the point that reading his thoughts in this Forbes article is what made me think he could be Satoshi.
  - Aqueous 13y ago
    His passion is admirable, but his vision for himself and his site seems a little grandiose. He might have world-changing ambition but Silk Road is not a world-changing idea. BitCoin attacks the status quo at its center - our entire system of finance, which forms the nucleus of a credit-driven economy, depends on having a currency that is issued and regulated from a central authority. BitCoin is a blow to state power at its core. Silk Road is just a store, or bazaar, that takes BitCoin.

by mrb 13y ago

StavrosK 13y ago

> Both DPR and Satoshi have technical/cryptographic skillsets: they use TOR, PGP, etc. That's like saying "both my grandmother and Michael Schumacher have automobile engineering backgrounds: They drive a car." Using cryptography and understanding it are two veeeeeery different things. Understanding cryptography and successfully creating/implementing your own protocol are even differenter.

Aqueous 13y ago

What, are you high? :) In all seriousness, it's an intriguing idea, and you point out some interesting parallels, but the idea of the Silk Road seems really small for someone like Satoshi Nakamoto, given that BitCoin is a work of unusual genius that potentially has world-changing power, and the Silk Road is about trafficking narcotics. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I want to think the creator of BitCoin has larger, more expansive goals in mind than getting people high or even undermining the war on drugs. Thinking that the creator of Silk Road is also the creator of BitCoin is like answering the question, "Why hasn't the miner of the first million BitCoins spent any of his currency?" by suggesting that Satoshi accidentally erased his wallet. Which would be hilarious. 'Fuck me,' I would imagine him saying.

mrb 13y ago
Read http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collected-quotations-of-the-dread-pirate-roberts-founder-of-the-drug-site-silk-road-and-radical-libertarian/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/29/collect... to understand the world-changing ambition that DPR has. The Silk Road is a lot more than trafficking narcotics for DPR. To the point that reading his thoughts in this Forbes article is what made me think he could be Satoshi.
- Aqueous 13y ago
  His passion is admirable, but his vision for himself and his site seems a little grandiose. He might have world-changing ambition but Silk Road is not a world-changing idea. BitCoin attacks the status quo at its center - our entire system of finance, which forms the nucleus of a credit-driven economy, depends on having a currency that is issued and regulated from a central authority. BitCoin is a blow to state power at its core. Silk Road is just a store, or bazaar, that takes BitCoin.