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Topic: New Mystery about Satoshi (Read 16373 times)
I am pretty convinced that Donald Knuth is Satoshi, can anyone find and compare code written by Donald Knuth and the original source code? I believe the answer to who Satoshi is lies in the original source code. The art of computer programming is a book written by Knuth and just like art created by Davinci, Bitcoin is a masterpiece with the artist's signature brush strokes developed from years of experience and unfathomable genius.
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The imbalance was due to an optimization on the hardware, such as using gray codes for counting
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The imbalance was due to an optimization on the hardware, such as using gray codes for counting
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txid 194aa9f4eed82d4ba7ef837c4908ef32f467901c15b0f361df89575c38a33b33
https://blockchain.info/tx/194aa9f4eed82d4ba7ef837c4908ef32f467901c15b0f361df89575c38a33b33
Great writing too. Awesome.
Sent WITH fee, to urgently show my gratitude ;-)
No really. This kind of work is extremely creative and puts the fun in bitcoin. It'll bring people to appreciate the mystery. <3
https://blockchain.info/tx/194aa9f4eed82d4ba7ef837c4908ef32f467901c15b0f361df89575c38a33b33
Great writing too. Awesome.
Sent WITH fee, to urgently show my gratitude ;-)
No really. This kind of work is extremely creative and puts the fun in bitcoin. It'll bring people to appreciate the mystery. <3
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We'll find out whatever satoshi felt like letting us know. Given cryptography is precisely the art of hiding information, and he is one of the best of all time. Very interesting research here, I'm gonna tip sergio for this one.
That's some incredible detective work there.
I'm guessing that the secret message will be fully decoded by the world's best supercomputers in the future. Unfortunately, I can already tell you that the answer is:
42
Now we just need to know the question. I'm guessing that the secret message will be fully decoded by the world's best supercomputers in the future. Unfortunately, I can already tell you that the answer is:
42
Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms.
this could explain the 32 bit nonce thing
He has expressed his disagreement directly to both the United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Organization.[6]
smart property/blockchain solves this
Oct 30, 2008 - It seems that Donald Knuth had his bank accounts attacked not once but three times using his checking account number off of checks he sent
JULY 20, 2008 · 10:46 AM
I came across an interview with Donald Knuth from June of this year, in which he throws some cold water on the current trend toward multicore computers. An excerpt:
…I might as well flame a bit about my personal unhappiness with the current trend toward multicore architecture. To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas, and that they’re trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore’s Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks! I won’t be surprised at all if the whole multithreading idea turns out to be a flop…
this could explain the 32 bit nonce thing
He has expressed his disagreement directly to both the United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Organization.[6]
smart property/blockchain solves this
Oct 30, 2008 - It seems that Donald Knuth had his bank accounts attacked not once but three times using his checking account number off of checks he sent
JULY 20, 2008 · 10:46 AM
I came across an interview with Donald Knuth from June of this year, in which he throws some cold water on the current trend toward multicore computers. An excerpt:
…I might as well flame a bit about my personal unhappiness with the current trend toward multicore architecture. To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas, and that they’re trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore’s Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks! I won’t be surprised at all if the whole multithreading idea turns out to be a flop…
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Nope, though he is a Lutheran, so the "Reformation Day" Oct 31 release of hte whitepaper might jibe...
Maybe he was a sys admin and just ran bitcoin on servers unbeknownst.
I need to start playing with this data. Is there a parser for python? I'm not awesome at many languages.
I need to start playing with this data. Is there a parser for python? I'm not awesome at many languages.
Whatever Satoshi did, you cannot deny that must have been a blazzing fast computer! Powerful computer denotes resources, resources denotes connections.... either that or they GPU mined just for fun!
Going by previous calculations, if they are accurate, he was working with around 7mH in 2009. That's not terribly powerful.. just a decent number of new-to-the-market GPUs--or equivalent processing power.
Example, several universities and companies around the world have a GPU farm room for heavy mathematics. Could've bribed someone to let him use them.
Very interesting!
It think we could find more information with deeper research.
It think we could find more information with deeper research.
Thanks for the share, that was very interesting.
Yeah I agree with you guys that he didn't actually do it for money, he wanted his idea to be successful!
Yeah I agree with you guys that he didn't actually do it for money, he wanted his idea to be successful!
Good work ! Very interesting...
The motivation has obviously been the success of bitcoin.
Exactly. Satoshi wasn't doing it to get rich.
Money is just one way of convincing people to do something that they weren't otherwise going to do.
But there are things more convincing than money. He understood that very well.
Whatever Satoshi did, you cannot deny that must have been a blazzing fast computer! Powerful computer denotes resources, resources denotes connections.... either that or they GPU mined just for fun!
I agree with the above quote... can't spend them, they have to show integrity... though I sure hope they plan something big for those Satoshi coins... Off topic but, wow just imagine how much good they could do if they unleashed that torrent to charities and organizations around the world: If everyone accepts BTC by then, it will change the world. 16 trillion global trade cap divided by amount of coins = 2 Trillion dollars of globe changing power.
I agree with the above quote... can't spend them, they have to show integrity... though I sure hope they plan something big for those Satoshi coins... Off topic but, wow just imagine how much good they could do if they unleashed that torrent to charities and organizations around the world: If everyone accepts BTC by then, it will change the world. 16 trillion global trade cap divided by amount of coins = 2 Trillion dollars of globe changing power.
nonce in this case is different from lottery in that it can increment to cover the entire range (from 0 until overflow) so it's 100% sure to be able to find a match. It's like you buy every possible number in lottery. Say if the answer is distributed equally within 0 ~ 255, if you intentionally restrict your coverage within 0 ~ 58, then in (255-58)/255 = 77% of the time you can never find the answer.
No. That is completely wrong and confused. You are not 100% sure to find a match. Unless the hash function is broken, every attempt is unrelated— there could be 5 matches in a row, or a whole nonce range which doesn't match. When it fails, it just increments the extranonce or timestamp and carries on. At the current difficulty the probability of any value being a match is around one in seven hundred million. Puncturing the nonce space does not reduce your probability of success in the slightest.Unless you also hash for the nonces in between but discard the results.. which is of course stupid.
No, under the assumption that there is no benefit at all, including profit, of calculating hashes you will not publish. Unless he was testing the randomness of the algorithm, but I doubt it.
OffT: Why don't we just ask this guy? http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.45.1255&rep=rep1&type=pdf
The success of a currency relies heavily on attracting enough smart people to participate. The core competence is still people as a team, who have since worked together and have overcome all the difficulties and dangers along the way. Mining too many coins for oneself is short sighted and stupid. It encourages people to go the other way. That's probably why he didn't even spend the > 1Million bitcoins. The motivation has obviously been the success of bitcoin.
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