So did you buy the domain name or was the entire site and all the emails and everything for sale?
From what I understand he didn’t use his email address and it was reregisteted by someone else. And bitcointalk admin had to freeze satoshis account because that user could easily reset the password and pretend to be satoshi.
However when the user made a new account, he most likely didn’t get access to satoshis emails prior to the account being reregistered.
So I don’t think there is anything of value there.
My theory is that the user may have indeed gained control or purchased the domain, however is using this recently acquired power to push a false/fake narrative. I explained more in other posts made on the several other threads that the OP has made within other sections of the forum.
Alex, thanks for sharing. But if I may ask...
What is your end goal here?
You claim that you do not wish to publicly announce the identity of Satoshi if you discover it, but you are leading the community into finding it out or at least to know more about the early days and possible involved people.
What is your motivation and what is the objective of your efforts?
Also having a hard time understanding how can you get access to old Satoshi e-mails by linking the domain to your proton account. Can you be more specific on how thats possible? When buying a domain i dont believe you have access to the previous host/server in order to reach older data. Maybe you can help us understand.
I asked the same question on one of the other threads created by this user:
Congratulations on getting a hold of the domain. I have just read this thread and following saw the chain on
this thread which was referring to the previous owner. One thing I am extremely curious about is how are the new owners able to access old emails? This is something that is confusing to me. If a hosting plan expires, or if email servers are no longer active, can they be reinstated no matter how much time passes, even after the domain and hosting/servers expire/change? This is a new concept to me.
Anyhow - It looks like you have good intentions for the domain which I am pleased to see
I look forward to seeing what you find share from your research and findings!
The more that I read, the more that I am beginning to believe that yes, maybe this user has gained access to the domain - however is now using that domain to spread or create a false narrative (for what motivation, I am not sure and I do not know).
It is beyond me as to how this user is going through emails of Satoshi, it makes no sense to me at all how this is possible. As far as my technical knowledge goes with domains, servers, data etc, it's not possible (to me), unless the OP has some form of forensics background (though even then, I still don't understand how this is possible and why it hasn't been done sooner by an authority).
The OP needs to clear this up before continuing to post, or I will personally be creating a negative tag for false/misinformation.
I think that if the OP really wants us to take this more seriously and listen to the bold "research" that is apparently being shared from the emails that are apparently belonging to satoshi/the account registered on vistomail, then the OP must verifiably prove to us exactly how access to the emails was achieved. As, like mentioned in the quote, I have no idea how this is even possible.
This was all very interesting when it was first posted, though now it seems like something fishy is going on. It would be a shame if it has turned out that a bad actor has control of this domain...