If RMS were Satoshi, the client code would be better.
And it would be written in Emacs LISP. XD
Topic: Is Satoshi actually Richard Stallman? (Read 10092 times)
And it would be written in Emacs LISP. XD
Maybe Bill Gates is Satoshi???
A far better candidate that RMS for the following reasons:
1) He would develop on Windows
2) He would refer to FLOSS as "Open Source"
3) He would not use a copyleft license such as the GPL, but has no problem at all using an open source license such as the MIT license
This video was uploaded at the same time when Bitcoin was launched in Feb 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNBMdDaYhZA&t=1h1m4s
Watch the next 2 minutes after the linked time. 1:02:45 is where it's at. Have we found our man?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNBMdDaYhZA&t=1h1m4s
Watch the next 2 minutes after the linked time. 1:02:45 is where it's at. Have we found our man?
First, and most important, the original Bitcoin client is MIT-licensed, which makes it very unlikely to be Stallman. Next, the client is written in C+, which is not a favored language of old school hackers of the Richard Stallman school (C is). On a related note, C++ is very much the language of academic and researcher types, which makes me think that Satoshi is probably a professor or some other academic or researcher.
Satoshi develop on window?
I would appear so and he also used the term "open source" both of which would eliminate RMS as Satoshi.
Maybe Bill Gates is Satoshi???
I still think the triumvirate of Neal King, Vladimir Oksman, and Charles Bry is the most likely hypothesis to date, though Michael clear might be an outside possibility. All of these appear more likely candidates than Stallman.
If RMS were Satoshi, the client code would be better.
Exactly right.
Among other reasons why it can't be Stallman, you merely have to read some of Stallman's code to see it could not be him. RMS has a VERY distinctive code style that is unmistakable.
RMS actually dislikes C++ and I think stuff like that matters to him.
That, to me, is proof that he didn't code it.
That, to me, is proof that he didn't code it.
Satoshi develop on window?
I would appear so and he also used the term "open source" both of which would eliminate RMS as Satoshi.
This might be off topic. My apologies.
We know the time of Satoshi's posts, right? With different sets of assumptions, this time distribution could be used to generate a set of activity profiles...ie, if we assume he posts during evening hours most often, and didn't move frequently, his post time stamps suggest his time zone was...
We know the time of Satoshi's posts, right? With different sets of assumptions, this time distribution could be used to generate a set of activity profiles...ie, if we assume he posts during evening hours most often, and didn't move frequently, his post time stamps suggest his time zone was...
This was done years ago. The most likely time zone is Eastern US.
So... you are saying Langley?
Not impossible.
In fact, I would not be surprised. Imagine how easy it would be to send funds to agents behind enemy lines when there's enough local traders.
Stallman eats his own Toe Jam (not kidding, he does it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ ) so I wouldn't want to be associated with that guy, and I wouldn't want bitcoin to be associated with him. People would call it Toebitcoin or something, Really Gross!
I find it extremely unlikely Satoshi to be RMS, since rms has long ago abandoned programming but instead try to tell people about Free Software, meaning he should have not gotten enough time to focus on Bitcoin, even less programming. Also in what language did Satoshi write the code? Was it not c++? Also look for any references of rms to that language.
Also note that Bitcoin is not branded with a GNU. It is neither called GNUcoin, though it sounds catchy doesn't it? "New Coin".
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As the author of GCC, how do you view the future of C,
in view of modern,
or more modern, languages like C++ or Java?
Well, C++ is a lousy language.
[laughter]
It's
a lousy job of language design; sloppy job of language design.
[applause]
Its grammar is ambiguous!
Source: http://ftp.fukt.bsnet.se/pub/movies/stallman/stallman2c.subin view of modern,
or more modern, languages like C++ or Java?
Well, C++ is a lousy language.
[laughter]
It's
a lousy job of language design; sloppy job of language design.
[applause]
Its grammar is ambiguous!
Also note that Bitcoin is not branded with a GNU. It is neither called GNUcoin, though it sounds catchy doesn't it? "New Coin".
This might be off topic. My apologies.
We know the time of Satoshi's posts, right? With different sets of assumptions, this time distribution could be used to generate a set of activity profiles...ie, if we assume he posts during evening hours most often, and didn't move frequently, his post time stamps suggest his time zone was...
We know the time of Satoshi's posts, right? With different sets of assumptions, this time distribution could be used to generate a set of activity profiles...ie, if we assume he posts during evening hours most often, and didn't move frequently, his post time stamps suggest his time zone was...
This was done years ago. The most likely time zone is Eastern US.
So... you are saying Langley?
Not impossible.
This might be off topic. My apologies.
We know the time of Satoshi's posts, right? With different sets of assumptions, this time distribution could be used to generate a set of activity profiles...ie, if we assume he posts during evening hours most often, and didn't move frequently, his post time stamps suggest his time zone was...
We know the time of Satoshi's posts, right? With different sets of assumptions, this time distribution could be used to generate a set of activity profiles...ie, if we assume he posts during evening hours most often, and didn't move frequently, his post time stamps suggest his time zone was...
This was done years ago. The most likely time zone is Eastern US.
This might be off topic. My apologies.
We know the time of Satoshi's posts, right? With different sets of assumptions, this time distribution could be used to generate a set of activity profiles...ie, if we assume he posts during evening hours most often, and didn't move frequently, his post time stamps suggest his time zone was...
We know the time of Satoshi's posts, right? With different sets of assumptions, this time distribution could be used to generate a set of activity profiles...ie, if we assume he posts during evening hours most often, and didn't move frequently, his post time stamps suggest his time zone was...
Could be you look at it from the wrong perspective.
Maybe you should better ask: Is Richard Stallman actually Satoshi?
Maybe you should better ask: Is Richard Stallman actually Satoshi?
I met Stallman in the London conference and he was quite clueless about bitcoin as a whole.
I doubt he's such a good actor.
Yeah, he must be pretty damn clueless. Watching that Bitcoin 2012 London: Richard Stallman, he only made a few comments about Bitcoin on a 43 minute speech:I doubt he's such a good actor.
0:10 Bitcoin mentioned 13:00 Wikileaks btc donation. 33:50 Bitcoin licensing copyleft non-copyleft 42:35 Bitcoin mentioned. The talk had little or nothing to do with Bitcoin.
He talked about how Bitcoin is licensed, and said that some projects he doesn't have a problem if they aren't copyleft. Did we learn anything new now?
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Congratulations. You just resurrected an 18 month old thread.
Just look up Bitcoin 2012 London: Richard Stallman. Maybe it was just I who resurrected you.Congratulations. You just resurrected an 18 month old thread.
If you cared on the subject you would already had watched Stallman here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN6Q--zqroM
I guessed you just wanted to tell somebody 'hey resurrection' without actually doing any research beforehand.
Japanese Stallman still would've called it "GnuCoin"
Jesus Christ, how have you guys not realized that Satoshi is Gavin Andresen. And Satoshi Nakamoto is just his edgy sounding nickname.
Gavin is not Satoshi.
Satoshi develop on window?
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