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Topic: Satoshi dumped Bitcoin right after Gavin announced he was going to the CIA. - page 4. (Read 36995 times)

legendary
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WTF are you talking about?!  Nobody knows who Satoshi is.  People don't just talk to him.  There are no secret "alert keys" to the protocol, it's borderline open source so someone would see them.

The "alert keys" he refers to are part of the "signaling mechanism" in the official client. I don't know the exact details but I suspect that the client holds the public key, and if it sees a valid message properly signed (by the private key, or the "alert key") then it will take some action like inform the user that there's a new version, or inform the user there's been a security breach and they need to update as soon as possible.

This would be part of the peer to peer overlay and not part of the blockchain. You can find this public key in the source code of the official client if you look.




jr. member
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WTF are you talking about?!  Nobody knows who Satoshi is.  People don't just talk to him.  There are no secret "alert keys" to the protocol, it's borderline open source so someone would see them.  Drunk post?  Btw I think your cat wants you...

P.S. clearly, as his avatar suggests, Gavin is the british guy from The Daily Show with John Stewart.

Satoshi made the majority of the code. Satoshi made 90% of Bitcoin. There are alert keys. Many people here will testify towards that. They are in the code.
sr. member
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WTF are you talking about?!  Nobody knows who Satoshi is.  People don't just talk to him.  There are no secret "alert keys" to the protocol, it's borderline open source so someone would see them.  Drunk post?  Btw I think your cat wants you...



P.S. clearly, as his avatar suggests, Gavin is the british guy from The Daily Show with John Stewart.
sr. member
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Also, it seems Satoshi had something for online wallets. Something Gavin isn't really excited about.

New users wouldn't really even need the Bitcoin software.  They could download a miner, create an account on mtgox or mybitcoin, enter their deposit address into the miner and point it at anyone's pool server.  When the miner says it found something, a while later a few coins show up in their account.

Those were very different times.

What he should have said was, "a while later, a few coins show up in Tom's account".
jr. member
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Also, it seems Satoshi had something for online wallets. Something Gavin isn't really excited about.

New users wouldn't really even need the Bitcoin software.  They could download a miner, create an account on mtgox or mybitcoin, enter their deposit address into the miner and point it at anyone's pool server.  When the miner says it found something, a while later a few coins show up in their account.
jr. member
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Basically, bring it on.  Let's encourage Wikileaks to use Bitcoins and I'm willing to face any risk or fallout from that act.
No, don't "bring it on".

The project needs to grow gradually so the software can be strengthened along the way.

I make this appeal to WikiLeaks not to try to use Bitcoin.  Bitcoin is a small beta community in its infancy.  You would not stand to get more than pocket change, and the heat you would bring would likely destroy us at this stage.

jr. member
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Gavin had just received the alert keys to the Bitcoin network. Right afterwards, he tells Satoshi that he is visiting the CIA. Satoshi leaves for good coincidentally.

This is quoted from the defunct Bruce Wagner Bitcoin podcast:

Bruce Wagner : When was the last time you chatted to satoshi
Gavin Andresen: Um... I haven't had email from satoshi in a couple months actually. The last email I sent him I actually told him I was going to talk at the CIA. So it's possible , that.... that may have um had something to with his deciding


Based on this, do you think Gavin fully meets Satoshi's vision for Bitcoin?
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