Topic: Satoshi, the common (Read 325 times)

You don't care about doxing Satoshi and yet you created this thread suggesting another less recognized person to be the real Satoshi. I thought you would just share your idea about Satoshi being most likely poor rather than rich. But then you ended up pushing forward another Satoshi candidate. I though you wanted to respect the choice of Satoshi to be private? Why are you bringing this issue back when the British-Indian guy you're referring to has already been forgotten? That's what Satoshi wanted.

Average hashes to find a block within 10 minutes at difficulty 1: ~7 Mhash (1*2^32/600),

Bitcoin has no hardware requirements on its own, its the miners competing with each other that causes difficulty to grow.

The first block took 5~6 days to mine,

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My first Bitcoins were mined using a Sempron 1300 Mhz, 1024 Mb RAM... Bitcoin has no hardware requirements on its own, its the miners competing with each other that causes difficulty to grow.

When did he state that?

Operating Systems
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Windows NT/2000/XP (and probably Vista)

Vista hasn't been tested yet.  All the libraries used are cross-platform, so
there's nothing preventing future Linux and Mac builds.

Compilers Supported
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MinGW GCC (v3.4.5)
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 SP6

As for VS6 I'm having a hard time believing that since there is 7 released in 2003 and v6 is from 1998. This has nothing to do with being poor, why would someone use such an old version?

He never announced it publicly and he had access to decent enough system(s) that allowed him to mine bitcoin in very first days.

whereas Satoshi was most likely "poor" or at least unable to buy the latest hardware at the time,

as the versions he used to code the first version of what is now Bitcoin Core were way outdated at the time; Windows XP, Visual Studio 6.

~a British-Indian guy who came out at a newspaper a few years ago explaining he was Satoshi,

Satoshi was most likely "poor" or at least unable to buy the latest hardware at the time, as the versions he used to code the first version of what is now Bitcoin Core were way outdated at the time; Windows XP, Visual Studio 6.

I tested this with a non-lower-ASCII account name on XP and confirmed the bug, then tested that the new GetDefaultDataDir fixed it.  This change is revision 102 of the SVN.

Also Satoshi stated he wasn't able to test his software with Vista, which may mean his computer wasn't enough for that OS, which included some heavy visual features (for the time, obviously) and required fairly expensive hardware.

The Linux version is on its way.  Martti's Linux port was merged into the main code branch and New Liberty Standard has been testing it.  It'll be in the next release, version 0.2.

Command line is on the to-do list after 0.2.

Mainstream support for Windows XP ended on April 14, 2009, and extended support ended on April 8, 2014.

Since I work in IT I think the the hard disk which is where we store our coins if we use desktop wallets that keeps all the blockchain and also all other data like the tools to create the first Bitcoin rarely fails,sure it can be corrupted but data can be in most of the cases 100% recovered.I would also like to find out more about Satoshi as we owe him a lot,personally I use Bitcoin from quite some years now and it is my go to form of payment of both investing and both using it as a store of value.However I am not convinced from this story as a genius like him cannot be justified by a hardware failure,he is way years ahead to be stopped by a computer failure.

There have been several occasions of people making noise around in saying they are Satoshi bit the real thing hear is that Satoshi cannot come out definitely we all know that, to make such and brag about himself to everyone, i think the empty vessel makes the loudest noise here and Craig is the ring leader among them all, but with time all will soon die down because no one from onset supported Craig

Have you discussed that together with Satoshi and he gave that utterance? Or am i the one nit getting what you mean here, i hope you're not constituting to another claim on Satoshi by framing this up.

So, out of all stories around, the one I found more plausible was of a British-Indian guy who came out at a newspaper a few years ago explaining he was Satoshi, what happened to his coins in a hardware failure and showing a picture of the computer used to create the first Bitcoin ever. His story was promptly discarded or overlooked and somehow I'm unable to find it again, as the noise caused by the imbecile CW just pops up at all results

but would be interesting to look into it again and probably give credit to the right person, even if the keys for his "magnificent fortune" are gone forever.

And contrary to what you said about his finances, I wouldn't say Satoshi was a poor man, I would consider him a very reserved man and even if he has money he would be the time that values what he has rather than getting the latest version (there are rich people like that) the major thing right now is that he created Bitcoin and it's in use now and would be for a very long time, I don't bother about all the drama surrounding his identity.

However I am not convinced from this story as a genius like him cannot be justified by a hardware failure,he is way years ahead to be stopped by a computer failure.

I've never actually care much about doxxing Satoshi, he wanted his privacy and I just respect that, but this issue keep coming up with the community. So, from those who came out or get named as a possible Satoshi, I think the major error of the research is to keep looking into "hot shots", whereas Satoshi was most likely "poor" or at least unable to buy the latest hardware at the time, as the versions he used to code the first version of what is now Bitcoin Core were way outdated at the time; Windows XP, Visual Studio 6. Nick Szabo, for an instance, would have access to all the new stuff of the time, such as Visual Studio 2008 and probably Windows Vista (even if this last one was a failure of an OS and 7 would be released later on 2009).
Also Satoshi stated he wasn't able to test his software with Vista, which may mean his computer wasn't enough for that OS, which included some heavy visual features (for the time, obviously) and required fairly expensive hardware.

So, out of all stories around, the one I found more plausible was of a British-Indian guy who came out at a newspaper a few years ago explaining he was Satoshi, what happened to his coins in a hardware failure and showing a picture of the computer used to create the first Bitcoin ever. His story was promptly discarded or overlooked and somehow I'm unable to find it again, as the noise caused by the imbecile CW just pops up at all results, but would be interesting to look into it again and probably give credit to the right person, even if the keys for his "magnificent fortune" are gone forever.