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Wrong guy ... from wikipedia ... The most high-profile speculation to date came in a March 6, 2014, article in the magazine Newsweek,[30] when journalist Leah

by damian2000 12y ago

Wrong guy ... from wikipedia ... The most high-profile speculation to date came in a March 6, 2014, article in the magazine Newsweek,[30] when journalist Leah McGrath Goodman identified Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese American man living in California, whose birth name is Satoshi Nakamoto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Dorian_Nakamoto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Dorian_Nakamot...

MrBuddyCasino 12y ago
Still seems fishy to me. The real Satoshi could have proved that he couldn't be that guy (using the blockchain or something else), but he didn't.
- nawitus 12y ago
  What's in it for the real Satoshi in that? By the way, Satoshi's old accunt was used to deny it. http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto
  - MrBuddyCasino 12y ago
    I know that, but that doesn't prove anything. - If Dorian was the real Satoshi, he would of course have used his 'real' account to try to disprove the claim. - If not, the only to way to know for sure that he is not the guy is for the other 'real' Satoshi to prove that it couldn't be Dorian. Simple as that. I agree that in the second case, the real Satoshi would not have a lot of incentive to prove the mistake. I'm not a conspiracy nut, I'm just saying that it has not been proven that Dorian is not the guy.
    - dpark 12y ago
      How exactly could Satoshi prove that he isn't Dorian Nakamoto?
      - psykovsky 12y ago
        Proving negatives is easy. /s
      - bpicolo 12y ago
        By proving he is somebody else? Not saying he would, just saying it would work.
        dpark 12y ago
        Fair enough. :) I should have asked how he could prove it without revealing his actual identity.
      - u124556 12y ago
        How exactly could Satoshi prove that he isn't Dorian Nakamoto without disclosing his real identity?
- ghshephard 12y ago
  He did. The real satoshi posted a comment on an account that only he could control noting that Dorian was not the real Satoshi.
  - bpicolo 12y ago
    Which in itself isn't disproof either, technically. If I didn't want people to find me I would do that too.
    - georgemcbay 12y ago
      The Shaggy defense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5fqunQ_4I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5fqunQ_4I
meowface 12y ago
What's funny is, most of HN and most of the Bitcoin subreddit posters were saying that it seemed like the article was legit in the first 2-4 days of its release. And yet as I was reading the article, the day it came out, I seriously thought their correlations sounded way off and that they had the wrong guy. I made a bunch of HN and reddit posts and even threads saying the Newsweek piece was very probably wrong, and was told to stop being a conspiracy nut. I even went into the official Bitcoin IRC to debate it with people, and found only 1 person agreeing with me and about 10 people against me. It's scary to think that terrible journalism can be published and believed so easily.

MrBuddyCasino 12y ago

Still seems fishy to me. The real Satoshi could have proved that he couldn't be that guy (using the blockchain or something else), but he didn't.

nawitus 12y ago
What's in it for the real Satoshi in that? By the way, Satoshi's old accunt was used to deny it. http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto
- MrBuddyCasino 12y ago
  I know that, but that doesn't prove anything. - If Dorian was the real Satoshi, he would of course have used his 'real' account to try to disprove the claim. - If not, the only to way to know for sure that he is not the guy is for the other 'real' Satoshi to prove that it couldn't be Dorian. Simple as that. I agree that in the second case, the real Satoshi would not have a lot of incentive to prove the mistake. I'm not a conspiracy nut, I'm just saying that it has not been proven that Dorian is not the guy.
  - dpark 12y ago
    How exactly could Satoshi prove that he isn't Dorian Nakamoto?
    - psykovsky 12y ago
      Proving negatives is easy. /s
    - bpicolo 12y ago
      By proving he is somebody else? Not saying he would, just saying it would work.
      - dpark 12y ago
        Fair enough. :) I should have asked how he could prove it without revealing his actual identity.
    - u124556 12y ago
      How exactly could Satoshi prove that he isn't Dorian Nakamoto without disclosing his real identity?
ghshephard 12y ago
He did. The real satoshi posted a comment on an account that only he could control noting that Dorian was not the real Satoshi.
- bpicolo 12y ago
  Which in itself isn't disproof either, technically. If I didn't want people to find me I would do that too.
  - georgemcbay 12y ago
    The Shaggy defense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5fqunQ_4I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv5fqunQ_4I

meowface 12y ago

What's funny is, most of HN and most of the Bitcoin subreddit posters were saying that it seemed like the article was legit in the first 2-4 days of its release. And yet as I was reading the article, the day it came out, I seriously thought their correlations sounded way off and that they had the wrong guy. I made a bunch of HN and reddit posts and even threads saying the Newsweek piece was very probably wrong, and was told to stop being a conspiracy nut. I even went into the official Bitcoin IRC to debate it with people, and found only 1 person agreeing with me and about 10 people against me. It's scary to think that terrible journalism can be published and believed so easily.