How did Satoshi successfully hid his identity? Using what technologies?

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Quote from: aleksej996 on November 19, 2017, 01:16:10 PM

Quote from: kahc on November 19, 2017, 10:09:28 AM

We don't even know if Satoshi is he, she, it or maybe a group. Why do you guys always assume that it must be a male.
I think that entity hide well because of excellent OPSEC.

Wouldn't say that they assume it is a male as much as they refer to him as a male, since Satoshi Nakamoto is a male Japanese name, as far as I know.

Indeed, but also there are a lot of guys pretending to be girls on the internet, so Satoshi could potentially be a female pretending to be a male . Grin

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There is a more abstract reason that one should care about the identity of Nakamoto. Unlike HTML or HTTP, bitcoin was an ideological project from the start. Bitcoin began in the imaginations of a group of geeks known as Cypherpunks. Beginning in the early nineteen-nineties, Cypherpunks promoted an extreme form of libertarianism, in which all forms of commerce—in anything imaginable—existed beyond state control. This would be enabled by advances in cryptographic software that could utterly obscure users’ identities, creating a state that Tim May, one of the founding Cypherpunks, called “crypto-anarchy.” Cypherpunks believed that a decentralized currency was needed to allow their crypto-anarchic utopia to exist, and bitcoin began as a technical implementation of this vision.

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Quote from: kahc on November 19, 2017, 10:09:28 AM

We don't even know if Satoshi is he, she, it or maybe a group. Why do you guys always assume that it must be a male.
I think that entity hide well because of excellent OPSEC.

Wouldn't say that they assume it is a male as much as they refer to him as a male, since Satoshi Nakamoto is a male Japanese name, as far as I know.

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He doesn't use any technology to just hide his identity nor using a vpn to remain anonymous he just doesn't want to tell his true identity to the public for own persnal reasons that might threaten his life or he doesn't want the fame we don't know whatever the reason is we must be thankful to this blessing without him or them bitcoin couldn't exist.

kahc

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We don't even know if Satoshi is he, she, it or maybe a group. Why do you guys always assume that it must be a male.
I think that entity hide well because of excellent OPSEC.

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Satoshi successfully hide his identity or not letting anyone know about his life is because of social media and also because he is not making any move to make a trail or marks that can give his identity or personality because we all know some people will work hard to gather info of some people that is still mysterious like an a goverment official and even a very successful person like Satoshi Nakamoto. I said that social media also help to hide Satoshi Nakamoto's identity because some other people doing spreading a fake news or hoax that spreading in every part of the world like spreading that someone claim that he is Satoshi Nakamoto. Maybe they do that to gain popularity or attention on this world or maybe they do that to help hide the real Satoshi Nakamoto

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I don't think he is utilizing any innovation to shroud his character in light of the fact that if his name is genuine, individuals would've definitely known him so in all probability he is simply utilizing a screen name or something.

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Satoshi Nakamoto successfully hid his identity because he really does not want people to know his whereabouts because of course everyone would be asking a lot of questions of bitcoin and everything else. I don't even think he is using any technology to hide his identity because if his name is real, people would've already known him so most likely he is just using a screen name or something.

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I am not really good with technologies but for the fact he invented decentralize method of currency, for sure he's/they're definitely genius with all terms of technology. I got curious with Satoshi as well and made some research, I saw a post where identity of Satoshi are being sold in black market due tho the fact that someone tracked his real IP even he used TOR. But the article was posted 2015 and I don't find it reliable

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Either way, "hiding" was such a smart decision and I think he will never ever reveal himself (or herself if you will).

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Quote from: erict on October 02, 2017, 02:53:08 PM

Mr. Satoshi is really a genius in hidding.
Still today no one could find his identity, nor even the national agencies could make it.

Question:
Besides Tor and PGP, what technologies else did Satoshi use to protect his anonymity?

we don't know how satoshi hiding so far because i think he uses many things to cover his identity, maybe he deleted all of things that related with his identity especially his info in internet. i think he still in around us and watching from far place and maybe he doing something without we know. for a genius person in internet, i think its easy to hiding his identity without any one know and he can doing many things he wants.

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Quote from: bitPico on October 03, 2017, 10:43:12 PM

Quote from: erict on October 02, 2017, 02:53:08 PM

Mr. Satoshi is really a genius in hidding.
Still today no one could find his identity, nor even the national agencies could make it.

Question:
Besides Tor and PGP, what technologies else did Satoshi use to protect his anonymity?

Nick Szabo showed himself to be Satoshi Nakamoto when he back-dated the notorious blog post about digital currencies after Bitcoin was released and then disappeared for the next 2 years only to reappear shortly after Satoshi vanished.

shhh!

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Awfully compelling. I will examine.

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That's so wrong, Satoshi changed a password to limit the block size to 1MB without anyone except a few who noticed the change. He is a very open person in all aspects of life. Amazingly C ++ Dev but actually do not know much about cryptography.

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I think that Mr. Satoshi acted very cleverly, hiding his identity.
At the beginning of the way to create bitcoin, when it was not yet a popular currency, it was quite easy to hide. A person who is engaged in crypto-technologies is definitely not much trouble. Now it is quite easy to use elementary VPN in order to hide your location, it can be done by anyone who owns a computer. What can we say about the programmers.
And yet, it seems to me that Satoshi's name unites the team of superprofessionals who launched bitcoin.

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Satoshi successfully hid his identity by using cryptography and his coding skills. There are ways to hide your location if you understand computers the way coders of Satoshi's status do.

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Quote from: Kakmakr on October 03, 2017, 01:11:21 AM

The genius behind Satoshi's concealment of his identity does not reside with the use of technology, but rather the social tactics he/she/they used to confuse people. Satoshi posted at random time zones on the forums or platforms he used, so people could not determine in which time zone he/she/they lived in.

He also used anonymous mailing lists and secure personal emails in the Cypherpunk community to hide his identity : https://www.coindesk.com/the-rise-of-the-cypherpunks/ < Cypherpunks believe that privacy is a fundamental human right, including privacy from governments. >

How creative of him. Creative in the sense that he managed to foresee simple things that may lead to a clue about his identity. I can say that he is wise enough to put the identity in dormant mode. I also believed that "privacy" is important including the government.

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Quote from: erickkyut on October 03, 2017, 10:31:29 PM

I think no one really knows how Satoshi hid his identity and if what kind of technology he used because if there is someone who knew it, we will know who Satoshi really is. For me, there are still computer geniuses out there that are trying to figure it out. They are still working and eager to know about it. Maybe in due time they will find a clue.

Satoshi made btc as anonymous currency that can be used by anyone without being known. And satoshi did a great job, as well as in hiding his self.

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There is no doubt that satoshi is very talented guy because the way he have developed bitcoin is really awesome. Talking about his ability to hide his identity, He haven't made any announcement after 2010 because by that time bitcoin have already got popularity and he doesn't want to get caught from governments. There are lots of tools to improve your personal privacy but the most crucial one is to not expose yourself with your own small mistakes like silkroad owner.

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Quote from: erict on October 02, 2017, 02:53:08 PM

Mr. Satoshi is really a genius in hidding.
Still today no one could find his identity, nor even the national agencies could make it.

Question:
Besides Tor and PGP, what technologies else did Satoshi use to protect his anonymity?

Nick Szabo showed himself to be Satoshi Nakamoto when he back-dated the notorious blog post about digital currencies after Bitcoin was released and then disappeared for the next 2 years only to reappear shortly after Satoshi vanished.

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