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Do we really need to dox this guy?

seiji 13y ago
When talking with nerds and you ask "Do we really need to do X?" the answer will always be yes regardless of the implication of the action.
- overgard 13y ago
  Most hackers think that way when they believe what they're doing is harmless or their victim is some faceless institution. I think people trying to dox this guy haven't really considered that they could (potentially) be causing innocent people a lot of damage with their "investigations".
  - salient 13y ago
    Or they considered it, and didn't care, because if they get it right, they'll always be the "guy who unmasked Satoshi".
- interstitial 13y ago
  Shall we call this Seiji's Law?
kybernetikos 13y ago
Yeah. I mean, I'm quite interested from a personal curiosity point of view, but considering that they're probably currently living a reasonably ordinary life, to out them as a target for kidnapping in order to acquire the vast stash of bitcoins, just seems like a really mean thing to do.
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- adventured 13y ago
  There are somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 centa-millionaires in North America. If Nick is Satoshi Nakamoto, he may need to take basic precautions, but otherwise is likely to be fine.
  - kybernetikos 13y ago
    Those 'basic precautions' will not be cheap and would probably require the liquidation of some of their bitcoins since they probably aren't anything like as wealthy in non-bitcoin terms. Liquidating their bitcoins would damage their psuedonymity, which is something that they are clearly not keen to do. The other thing is that most of those centa-millionaires are not keeping their holdings entirely in cash that can be moved quickly in large quantities psuedonymously requiring only a small piece of information likely to be held by Satoshi. Certainly, securing multi-millionaires is not an insoluable problem (although it fails sometimes), but I think that Satoshi is likely to be in a situation that make the consequences of being unmasked particularly dangerous and the difficulty of measures to keep safe particularly onerous.
oh_sigh 13y ago
No. However, it is interesting, considering Satoshi could have a net worth in the billions soon if (s)he/they own many of the earlier-mined bitcoins.

seiji 13y ago

When talking with nerds and you ask "Do we really need to do X?" the answer will always be yes regardless of the implication of the action.

overgard 13y ago
Most hackers think that way when they believe what they're doing is harmless or their victim is some faceless institution. I think people trying to dox this guy haven't really considered that they could (potentially) be causing innocent people a lot of damage with their "investigations".
- salient 13y ago
  Or they considered it, and didn't care, because if they get it right, they'll always be the "guy who unmasked Satoshi".
interstitial 13y ago
Shall we call this Seiji's Law?

kybernetikos 13y ago

Yeah. I mean, I'm quite interested from a personal curiosity point of view, but considering that they're probably currently living a reasonably ordinary life, to out them as a target for kidnapping in order to acquire the vast stash of bitcoins, just seems like a really mean thing to do.

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adventured 13y ago
There are somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 centa-millionaires in North America. If Nick is Satoshi Nakamoto, he may need to take basic precautions, but otherwise is likely to be fine.
- kybernetikos 13y ago
  Those 'basic precautions' will not be cheap and would probably require the liquidation of some of their bitcoins since they probably aren't anything like as wealthy in non-bitcoin terms. Liquidating their bitcoins would damage their psuedonymity, which is something that they are clearly not keen to do. The other thing is that most of those centa-millionaires are not keeping their holdings entirely in cash that can be moved quickly in large quantities psuedonymously requiring only a small piece of information likely to be held by Satoshi. Certainly, securing multi-millionaires is not an insoluable problem (although it fails sometimes), but I think that Satoshi is likely to be in a situation that make the consequences of being unmasked particularly dangerous and the difficulty of measures to keep safe particularly onerous.

oh_sigh 13y ago

No. However, it is interesting, considering Satoshi could have a net worth in the billions soon if (s)he/they own many of the earlier-mined bitcoins.