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To "use Satoshi's identity" would require his pgp key (at a minimum).
by Element_ 12y ago
To "use Satoshi's identity" would require his pgp key (at a minimum).
- nmjohn 12y agoExcept when people want to believe something or have fear (of losing mass amounts of money) of something, they tend to act irrationally. He wouldn't be able to convince myself of his identity without one of his private keys, but there are thousands of people who would have latched on, and then once those people start confirming the story it only convinces more people and so on, in a snowball effect.
- tempestn 12y agoAnd even if you don't believe it, you still might sell your BTC, fearing that others will.
- tempestn 12y agoYou don't think his email alone would be enough to at least bump the price? I bet if you sent emails to a few select journalists from an account known to belong to Satoshi, implying that you will begin offloading coins, you could easily cause the price to drop. I'm sure there are other ways too. Even if they thought to authenticate his identity, which many wouldn't, they would still write something up about it, and the speculation alone would have an effect.