Is Satoshi really Steve Gibson from qrc.com? [dispute this gossip]

FlappySocks

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Quote from: SteveB on March 23, 2011, 10:30:26 PM

If Steve had written the bitcoin client it would be:
- less than 100kb in size
- written in assembler
- cost $ 89.00
- no new version in 7 years

Ha ha. Before I even opened this thread, this sums up my first thought from reading the subject line.

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Terminated.

Quote from: em3rgentOrdr on March 24, 2011, 05:47:56 AM

Quote from: SteveB on March 23, 2011, 10:30:26 PM

There is no way Steve Gibson wrote the bitcoin client!

If Steve had written the bitcoin client it would be:
- less than 100kb in size
- written in assembler
- cost $ 89.00
- no new version in 7 years

I bet you could get the core workings of bitcoin much smaller, maybe < 4kb.

One must try to understand humor.
Good one anyhow. The Bitcoin client is actually not very well coded.

DrMike

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This may be necromancy, but I'll give it a push. Steve is a smart man, but he's ten years older than me and has the burden of appearing correct (all-of-the-time).

As a young man I was often critical of tech specialists, because I had to tell them how to implement new mime types for media content etc. I was a student paid to work for different departments at my university. Today I do this stuff for fun (build and restore retro systems) and to help people who won't let go of their old computers. That would be, old people at-near-or-above fifty.

Back in the day Steve was just one 'us', which totaled about 30-40 thousand active users. Long before he was popular he helped many people like me get with the need for firewalls and antivirus software. Most early developers questioned the need to address pranks (such as the kind we played upon our professors - your PC is Stoned), because no one thought anyone would be so malevolent.

I was wrong and have been wrong a thousand times since. I have, however, been right a many fold more times since. Often it is better to be wrong than to fail to act.

Food-for-thought...

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My short answer:

no.

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youtube.com/ericfontainejazz now accepts bitcoin

Quote from: SteveB on March 23, 2011, 10:30:26 PM

There is no way Steve Gibson wrote the bitcoin client!

If Steve had written the bitcoin client it would be:
- less than 100kb in size
- written in assembler
- cost $ 89.00
- no new version in 7 years

I bet you could get the core workings of bitcoin much smaller, maybe < 4kb.

CryptikEnigma

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Quote from: SteveB on March 23, 2011, 10:30:26 PM

There is no way Steve Gibson wrote the bitcoin client!

If Steve had written the bitcoin client it would be:
- less than 100kb in size
- written in assembler
- cost $ 89.00
- no new version in 7 years

lmao

SteveB

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There is no way Steve Gibson wrote the bitcoin client!

If Steve had written the bitcoin client it would be:
- less than 100kb in size
- written in assembler
- cost $ 89.00
- no new version in 7 years

CryptikEnigma

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Quote from: hazek on March 23, 2011, 03:17:01 PM

Quote from: SATOSHl on March 23, 2011, 02:59:14 PM

I am not steve gibson. I write better code than him. I am japanese!!!

I guess you think you're funny huh? Roll Eyes

I thought it was pretty funny >.>

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What a load of crap.

I didn't even bother reading after the "spyware" thing, LOL.

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Absolute rubbish. For one thing: he's too damn busy. Weekly podcasts, huge mailbag, and publicly viewable mailing lists! He can't develop two things at once. Plus he programs everything in Assembly Language (no really, even his webserver AFAIK), so there's no way he'd be so dependent on the technologies that bitcoin uses (I don't think he's ever released anything intended for non-Windows systems). Why would he wait until now to debut the program on his show when he demos everything he makes on the podcast as soon as possible. Why was he visibly and audibly ecstatic about finding his first block? Why would he admit that it has potential legal issues (assuming you guys think he is in it for the money, and isn't just running this giant conspiracy for kicks).

Anyone who can read all that and still think he is Satoshi is skilled in the art of tinhattery.

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Attention!!
Submitted by troy on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 05:19.
After having a fallout with real networks...

So many issues with what he's saying here.

curator

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Wow. And, no.

Steve is the real deal and I've been listening to him for years on 'Security Now!'. I do believe that if it wasn't for him, there would be scads more zombi-fied computers out there, and technology/R&D would have been hampered in its march to the future.

'troy' needs a new hobby.

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Quote from: SATOSHl on March 23, 2011, 02:59:14 PM

I am not steve gibson. I write better code than him. I am japanese!!!

I guess you think you're funny huh? Roll Eyes

SATOSHl

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I am not steve gibson. I write better code than him. I am japanese!!!

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Quote from: kiba on March 23, 2011, 10:04:30 AM

Steve Gibson definitely understood bitcoin.

Compare Steve Gibson's explanation to Gavin's explanation on that radio show to see what I mean.

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He rakes in so much money with the elderly SpinRite program, and is so busy with other nicknacks, and is spooked about crypto disclosure possibly being forced on him for CryptoLink vaporware - I can't see he'd have the time or inclination

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Quote from: JohnDoe on March 23, 2011, 09:58:44 AM

No way. He didn't come off as someone who understood Bitcoin very well in that podcast, so he couldn't be satoshi unless he purposely tried to sound less knowledgeable. Also spyware creation/prevention doesn't have anything to do with cryptography as far as I know so that part of the argument is worthless. People like theymos or gavin are way more likely to be satoshi in my opinion.

Steve Gibson definitely understood bitcoin.

JohnDoe

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No way. He didn't come off as someone who understood Bitcoin very well in that podcast, so he couldn't be satoshi unless he purposely tried to sound less knowledgeable. Also spyware creation/prevention doesn't have anything to do with cryptography as far as I know so that part of the argument is worthless. People like theymos or gavin are way more likely to be satoshi in my opinion.

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>>Submitted by troy on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 23:51.
>>In fact, now I'm positive gibson is the author of the code because it's got his damn signature all over it. He's the only programmer in the world that religiously uses IRC protocol to push data around. That's his M.O.

Roll Eyes

That's his reasoning?

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I don't think these "Satoshi is the reincarnation of Jesus" rumors will ever end, unless Satoshi comes forward. But I find them quite amusing Cheesy

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