Topic: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? - page 2. (Read 28599 times)

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http://www.tutorgigpedia.com/ed/Ashish_Gulhati

Updated the post with the reply tweet.

http://bensonsamuel.com/2013/05/28/is-ashish-gulhati-an-indian-satoshi-nakamoto/

Dramatic...

Here you go, Adam.


Following leads from Ashish's last tweet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Chitnis

So what did the tweet say if you still have it.. enciphering minds need to know!  (and undetweetable.com says they've been asked to shutdown).

Adam

dun dun dunnnnn

Since this thread has been up, Ashish posted then deleted a tweet on Twitter pertaining to his connection to Satoshi, and http://hashcash.com/ no longer redirects to http://neomailbox.com/ currently depicting a page with...

Awesome. Thanks for your contribution. To both this thread and for inventing hashcash(aka bitcoin mining for those not familiar).

Its strange because as far as I can tell Ashish did not contribute to the hashcash library (and there were a few dozen people did).  Actually I had no idea who Ashish was other than the owner of hashcash.org (.com, .net) until reading this thread to realize he sounds like a pretty interesting open source crypto hacker and even involved with ecash related things at DMT which I was barely aware of though I had read some of the late J Orlin Grabbe's libertarian articles in the distant past.  I didnt realize he was an economist (see his wikipedia).

edit: Actually its not ambiguous the heading of the section on the above link is "As Seen On..." and includes sections for TV, news, magazines, and... code that mentions his name.  And hashcash certainly did that in the context of his giving the domain name, gratis.

Ashish did give me the domain - I think I offered $100 to have a better .org domain for the opensource project.  His counter-offer to give it to me free was a pleasant surprise.  He got me to make a PGP signed statement saying I wouldnt try to obtain hashcash.com nor hashcash.net.  I notice now hashcash.net is for sale by one of those resellers so maybe he accidentally didnt renew it.

The speculations about Ashish personality to be eschewing financial reward are interesting (re $100m of unclaimed BTC on the block chain).  I dont know Ashish so I cant help there.  But it is interesting that there are some cultures and religions that do intentionally forgo financial reward, and shy away from shows of wealth etc.  I noticed some indian sub-cultures have that, but they are certainly not alone.  Ashish apparently was/is involved in open source, and interesting projects like DMT where presumably most of the interest is the technology purist, or political freedom potential.

Adam

No sir, you need this wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins

edit:
Don't mess with Satoshi

Yes, the full spelling of hash did slightly elude me, only pointing out the term associated with computers--hash.

I took a puff of hash once, thinking at the time that you should take a deep puff and hold it like I've done only a small times before with dank. I learnt afterwards that the shit expands in your lungs. I'm pretty sure it was from that day forward I considerably scaled back my ulta-minor drug habit.

To this day, I never spend money on drugs, with the exception of purchasing a purple microdot (of which I gave away to ?) in San Diego while at Mission Bay after completing Naval boot camp.

Major in philosophy, and prefers Ayn Rand over giants like Deluze, Nietzsche, Sartre...

You should smoke some then you'll know 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashish

From the I-can't-believe-what-I-just-found file:


What is it with the name Ashish besides putting an H in front of it and dropping the last three letters resulting in Hash?

This is odd!: http://netropolis.in/silklist/msg04198.html


Clearly this is written by Ashish. Note his sig that he's used elsewhere--#!.

The hashcash domains were registered in his name in March of the same year the email exchanges took place, yet he's distancing himself from it.

http://www.hashcash.org/source/CHANGELOG


But hashcash.com is still controlled by Ashish and redirects to his site http://neomailbox.com/

Which begs the questions, was hashcash derived from a play on words since Ashish Gulhati has used the moniker/pseudonym 'hash' since the mid 90's?

Ashish registered in his name all top level domains (.com, .net, .org) for hashcash back in March of 2001, only giving the .org one to Adam Back.

Amazingly, Bitcoin was nearing its first release into the wild shortly after the death of James Orlin Grabbe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orlin_Grabbe


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orlin_Grabbe#Digital_Monetary_Trust


Where was Grabbe during the mid to late 1999? Laissez Faire City.

Where was Ashish during the same time period? Same place.

Who at Laissez Faire City during the same time had the capability to develop such a system? Not Sonny Vleisides and his gang of programmers.

Yes, Adam Beck came up as well in Phinnaeus's links.
May have contributed a lot to the build up of the final product as well.

A few more just for fun.

http://www.cypherspace.org/bitcoin/satoshi.html
http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/

Adam Back sure wants hashcash credited with bitcoin's invention. That is enough for me to think it isn't him because he is trying to claim credit for it. But Ashish... that's a little more interesting.