Coin Clarity said:
Just for the record I don't think Finney was a potential candidate -- he's just in the list of those frequently cited as possibly being Satoshi. My favorite theory is that the NSA had put together a group of individuals who all signed NDAs about their involvement with the project, two of which may or may not have been Nick Szabo and Hal Finney. But really I know just as much as anybody else, which isn't much.
I see, Cyrus. Thanks for ably demonstrating to AGD and others JAB and myself are two separate people. It's very kind of you to help Charlie Manson AGD out. It's important to be nice to people.
Maybe you'd tweet to #marttimalmi too, and ask if he'll admit we communicated via Skype in Finland long before he was known to the world.
Ask him how he came into Skype contact with Craig Cobb, the American from Tallinn, and was talking to me as I sat in Helsinki's Kallio libraryhttp://www.helmet.fi/en-US the day or day after Tom Metzger was raided. Martti and I talked about it, a typed Skype chat. I'd tweet to Martti, but was banned by Pol Potter Dorsey's squad.
Cite this. This would jog Martti's memory. Tom told the ATF to put his house key under the front doormat when they were finished:On June 2, 2009, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided Metzger's home. No arrests were made and no information was released on what was found inside his house. Metzger was allowed to leave the premises during the search and stated that address books, compact discs, tapes and computers were seized in the raid.[33][34]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_MetzgerI sat up here in the mezzanine:
http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Libraries_and_services/Kallio_Library/Whats_going_on/Book_an_exhibition_space_for_your_art_at(163773)
http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Libraries_and_services/Kallio_LibraryI've read variations on the NSA theme. From James' many Majority Rights posts, and from knowing him myself, I don't believe he is an NSA operative. His Dad was an IRS agent; one might surmise, also very good with numbers. A bit familialy ironic, as shown by my earlier post with link to James' statement that he'd been audited years later. Life's like that. Sure.
James would remember his early liking of a dice game which sets the odds. It was just an idea then. In this thread, James has already recalled our general talks about other matters. Now I don't know if this is the very same proprietor-game explained to me, but "Satoshi's Dice" was sold for 126,315 BTC, or USD $12.4 million at the time of the announcement of the sale.
I researched it a bit a few weeks ago. Plus, I recall James' citing at the time how the odds of one's winning could be adjusted by the player, as would (automatically) the payout slide. If you pick easy odds, you win commensurately less; hard odds, more. James really loved the conceptual idea of this game, and his enthusiasm made me feel upbeat about its chances too.
In any case, I could not find any open, easily seen participation by James or international persona Satoshi in the coding of the game, its sale or its hack. But the game, as it exists, is precisely as described to me by James. As with so many of our talks regarding bitcoin, James copiously explains all aspects, machinations, possibilities, number relationships etc. It was fascinating.
The new session based game may send back a balance from unrelated addresses that are not tainted to the deposit address...The service was announced on April 24, 2012[4]. Within weeks, the site became responsible for more Bitcoin transactions than all other uses of Bitcoin combined[5].
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_DiceStep 2
The Ghost of Satoshi will roll the dice and pick a Lucky Number!
https://www.satoshidice.com/en/Safe Dice is the same James explained and you can play this one instantly. In my mind's eye, this is the precise one I envisioned per James' description. I particularly like the layout of this one, but I don't play-- am a bit of a stoicist, and never have other than the test rolls which you can do here now:https://safedice.com/playMany versions abound:
https://gamblingbitcoin.com/bitcoin-dice/