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One of the links shown Satoshi Nakamoto saying they're not somebody who'd very publicly been 'exposed' as him. I figured it'd be interesting to see what else Sa

by mcintyre1994 12y ago

One of the links shown Satoshi Nakamoto saying they're not somebody who'd very publicly been 'exposed' as him. I figured it'd be interesting to see what else Satoshi has posted and saw this comment [0]: > Dear Satoshi. Your dox, passwords and IP addresses are being sold on the darknet. Apparently you didn't configure Tor properly and your IP leaked when you used your email account sometime in 2010. You are not safe. You need to get out of where you are as soon as possible before these people harm you. Thank you for inventing Bitcoin. It's the last comment posted on that account from September - is there any more information on this? [0] http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source?commentId=2003008%3AComment%3A55276 http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...

acjohnson55 12y ago
Like most things Bitcoin-related, it caused a big splash and then kinda just faded into the background, while much more mundane and incremental developments plod along.
gwern 12y ago
No. I've written it off as a blackmail* or concern-troll: the information or claim of such a listing has never surfaced since, no one has claimed to have the dox though the main use would be to leak to a journalist or something (since it's unlikely he'd pay blackmail for such flimsy evidence), such dox would be almost impossible to verify (except maybe the passwords), a Satoshi IP arguably already has been found with minimal notice paid by anyone, and the mechanism is odd - he did have Tor configured correctly for everything else, and some of his mail services specifically scrub IPs from mail headers so an incorrect configuration wouldn't matter. * I believe there was at least 1 P2P foundation post which included addresses for payment at the time, although those seem to have been deleted now.

acjohnson55 12y ago

Like most things Bitcoin-related, it caused a big splash and then kinda just faded into the background, while much more mundane and incremental developments plod along.

gwern 12y ago

No. I've written it off as a blackmail* or concern-troll: the information or claim of such a listing has never surfaced since, no one has claimed to have the dox though the main use would be to leak to a journalist or something (since it's unlikely he'd pay blackmail for such flimsy evidence), such dox would be almost impossible to verify (except maybe the passwords), a Satoshi IP arguably already has been found with minimal notice paid by anyone, and the mechanism is odd - he did have Tor configured correctly for everything else, and some of his mail services specifically scrub IPs from mail headers so an incorrect configuration wouldn't matter. * I believe there was at least 1 P2P foundation post which included addresses for payment at the time, although those seem to have been deleted now.