Topic: [NPR] Did A Reporter Just Solve A Bitcoin Mystery? - Satoshi Found? (Read 5385 times)
October 04, 2011, 06:03:02 PM
Zero attendance of people with English accents to CryptoCon 2012.
October 04, 2011, 01:49:37 PM
Don't think so:
^ awkward silence doesn't really work over email.
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o Davis, the author of the New Yorker story, emails Clear.
"I like to keep a low profile," Clear replies. "I'm curious to know how you found me."
Davis eventually cuts to the chase:
Finally, I asked, "Are you Satoshi?"
He laughed, but didn't respond. There was an awkward silence.
"I like to keep a low profile," Clear replies. "I'm curious to know how you found me."
Davis eventually cuts to the chase:
Finally, I asked, "Are you Satoshi?"
He laughed, but didn't respond. There was an awkward silence.
^ awkward silence doesn't really work over email.
LOL
If you read the article, he was actually speaking with him face to face. He had emailed him to set up a meeting. So, an awkward silence at that meeting was quite possible =)
October 04, 2011, 01:45:12 PM
Title promises more than article can deliver.
NPR did the play it safe blogger route, make the headline a question, you can state anything. I've noticed journalism going toward shitty practices like this for a while now, but you need to keep readers somehow.
October 04, 2011, 01:01:04 PM
Title promises more than article can deliver.
October 04, 2011, 12:58:15 PM
If you have any copies of code this guy has written youd be able to tell by its fingerprints. People tell me that is as distinctive as a fingerprint.
October 04, 2011, 12:43:58 PM
Satoshi knows that search is a hard problem, but verification is trivial.
I think if he really was Satoshi, he would not have tried to deny it.
I think if he really was Satoshi, he would not have tried to deny it.
October 04, 2011, 11:21:39 AM
That story was lame and does not prove anything. If he was Satoshi - He would not of done the interview at all.
October 04, 2011, 11:07:09 AM
your wrong, I AM SATOSHI NAKAMOTO.
The great Satoshi would know how to spell "you're" correctly
October 04, 2011, 06:57:51 AM
It is better that there is no human face to Bitcoin.
Until they are ready to award Satoshi the Nobel Prize for Economics.
October 04, 2011, 06:50:44 AM
Apparently the 2nd 'suspect' is from Finland - so the New Yorker story has hit the Finnish press (tietoviikko.fi - A Finnish IT magazine)
(sorry for the google-translated title)
(sorry for the google-translated title)
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Finnish researchers suspected Bitcoin-inventor of money
[2011-10-04
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomalaista+tutkijaa+epaillaan+bitcoinrahan+keksijaksi/a697067
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tietoviikko.fi%2Fkaikki_uutiset%2Fsuomalaista%2Btutkijaa%2Bepaillaan%2Bbitcoinrahan%2Bkeksijaksi%2Fa697067&act=url
"This suspect is a 31-year-old Finnish Technology Research Institute researcher George Lehdonvirta . He has studied virtual currencies, and he is a programmer background. He is also involved in other things, privacy issues, focused on the Electronic Frontier Finlandin (Effi) operation."
[2011-10-04
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomalaista+tutkijaa+epaillaan+bitcoinrahan+keksijaksi/a697067
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tietoviikko.fi%2Fkaikki_uutiset%2Fsuomalaista%2Btutkijaa%2Bepaillaan%2Bbitcoinrahan%2Bkeksijaksi%2Fa697067&act=url
"This suspect is a 31-year-old Finnish Technology Research Institute researcher George Lehdonvirta . He has studied virtual currencies, and he is a programmer background. He is also involved in other things, privacy issues, focused on the Electronic Frontier Finlandin (Effi) operation."
October 04, 2011, 06:34:35 AM
It is better that there is no human face to Bitcoin.
Until they are ready to award Satoshi the Nobel Prize for Economics. 
October 04, 2011, 05:50:55 AM
It is better that there is no human face to Bitcoin. That is what they are trying to do.
If you can put a face to Bitcoin you can slander that face and create guilt by association for anyone who uses Bitcoins.
"Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency created by a sexual deviant, is getting a lot of attention lately"
"Bitcoin, a hair brained scheme devised by a man with a history of deception, has been growing in popularity among unsuspecting investors."
etc.
If you can put a face to Bitcoin you can slander that face and create guilt by association for anyone who uses Bitcoins.
"Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency created by a sexual deviant, is getting a lot of attention lately"
"Bitcoin, a hair brained scheme devised by a man with a history of deception, has been growing in popularity among unsuspecting investors."
etc.
October 04, 2011, 04:56:08 AM
Bitcoin was Satoshi's passion, not his career. Satoshi succeeded because he was a generalist, an all-rounder, someone who had a great understanding of crypto, but also of economic reality and software construction.
I think anyone who attends a specialist cryptography conference is not going to be Satoshi.
I think anyone who attends a specialist cryptography conference is not going to be Satoshi.
October 04, 2011, 03:30:50 AM
This guy, Michael Clear, is a little too young to be Satoshi, no? Just graduating as an undergrad in 2008? Well, it's possible certainly, but I had thought Satoshi was ~30yo. Some of Satoshi's forum posts also appear a bit more mature than undergraduate posting, but you never know I guess.
October 04, 2011, 02:51:28 AM
Leave Satoshi ALONEEEEE
October 04, 2011, 01:17:47 AM
is "bloody hard" a phrase Americans use? It's used a bit here in Australia and maybe UK though I'm not sure.
October 03, 2011, 10:09:53 PM
your wrong, I AM SATOSHI NAKAMOTO.
but to be serious, if his real identity is found, gradz.
but to be serious, if his real identity is found, gradz.
October 03, 2011, 09:17:44 PM
Um, so he thinks the fact someone's using British spellings means they are from the UK? He didn't think maybe there were a few people from the UK employed teaching English in other countries? 
October 03, 2011, 09:15:08 PM
This poor guy is going to be hounded for quite a while I bet 
October 03, 2011, 09:11:56 PM
Michael Clear put a message on is university page.
http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/Michael.Clear => http://www.scss.tcd.ie/~clearm/bitcoin.html
This is the last message I'm posting about him. If he wants to be be low profile that's ok. He did enough for Bitcoin already.
http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/Michael.Clear => http://www.scss.tcd.ie/~clearm/bitcoin.html
This is the last message I'm posting about him. If he wants to be be low profile that's ok. He did enough for Bitcoin already.
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