Topic: Cobras recent moves and possible effects (Read 413 times)

I think it is more likely to be an alt of Sirius or at least someone who is known to him. Sirius is the co-founder of the the forum and used to control the domain. It is likely that he doesn't want to be hassled so transferred it to an anonymous alt or someone he trusts.

I received the domains from an anonymous person who claimed to have worked with Satoshi in the early days. He claimed that Satoshi split up his assets before leaving in order to prevent too much centralization: The SourceForge project to Gavin, bitcoin.org to Sirius, and the two other domains to this anonymous person.

I don't know his identity, and it was clear that he didn't want his identity to be known.

That is one way to look at it.

Cobra is a specific person in the Bitcoin community who was around as of when satoshi left. However it is unknown who this person is, as the first time he appears is in 2014. My question is, who was this guy in 2009/10?

Given the very small number of people actively involved in the Bitcoin community at the time, I would say the chances of cobra being satoshi are at least 1%.

Bitcoin.org was originally registered and owned by Bitcoin's first two developers, Satoshi Nakamoto and Martti Malmi.

This implies theymos knows who satoshi is. Isn't it more likely he didn't address that statement because it's obvious he doens't know his identity?

In April, I speculated that Cobra is either theymos or satoshi, and theymos promptly denied being cobra but did not address him potentially being satoshi.

Perhaps rather than panicking and jumping to conclusions it would be good to read what Cøbra said himself regarding "BCH support".

Bitcointalk.org:
 - Cobra has ultimate control over the domain name. I have access to the domain name settings.
 - I run the server. Cobra has no access to the database or server.
 - The BTC is held by myself and the treasurers. Cobra has no access.

Will his actions cause another uprise from people calling him to hand over the ownership of the domain?  I was really looking forward to all the speculation about what will happen but it seems nothing is coming up.

Will his actions cause another uprise from people calling him to hand over the ownership of the domain?

It has been suggested recently that Cobra hand over the ownership of the domains (at least about bitcoin.org) to the Bitcoin foundation

Someone finding Bitcoin Cash useful for a particular use case (payments) doesn't mean they're immediately some raging "Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin" crazy person. Right now I keep most of my money in Bitcoin, and some spending money in Bitcoin Cash, but if the fees get high on Bitcoin, as they sometimes do, I can just pay for things with Bitcoin Cash since adoption is reasonably good. It's ridiculous how there's no longer any nuance left in the community. Everyone's so ready to chase anyone out of the community just because they don't hate on Bitcoin Cash with the same fierce fiery hatred.

I haven't done anything evil with my access, ever. In fact, I've been extremely aggressive in preventive efforts to harm actual evil like XT, Classic, BU, NYA, etc. It's disappointing how prominent people like Gregory Maxwell and Samson Mow have helped in spreading vicious rumors that I've been compromised or sold my account. Despite what you read on Twitter, there's no history of me doing anything malicious to harm the Bitcoin community. It's all just a smear campaign organized by people associated with Blockstream.

I can assure you all that nobody will ever see anything evil put up on bitcoin.org or bitcointalk.org. The fact that something so obvious needs to be stated is a testament to how so many in this community have become paranoid and are in a state of permanently waiting for the next "enemy of Bitcoin" to show themselves.

To be honest I wasn't aware that Cobra has become a BCH supporter, or cared about it, until I read the "news" https://www.ccn.com/cobra-client-bitcoin-org-owner-has-a-plain-to-avoid-a-bch-civil-war/ but looking back at all the "drama" and "censorship" accusations I was actually waiting on some topics about the events and possible effects on bitcointalk.org. I am either wrong expecting this in Meta or no one cares or this will get killed faster than I typed it.

Will his actions cause another uprise from people calling him to hand over the ownership of the domain?  I was really looking forward to all the speculation about what will happen but it seems nothing is coming up.