Topic: The release of Satoshi's personal data - page 3. (Read 1605 times)

As of now and in the supposed year(2021),I doubt there will be any reason whatsoever to reveal satoshi's Pm's for whatever reasons,as such informations remain private as Theymos has reiterated numerous times,but you just get that feeling that with satoshi things will be a bit different as we've got numerous groups clamouring for his identity and probably an inkling could be gotten from his private messages.
And this I think this settles it all, for now at least

I used to think Satoshi invented this forum, that he invented the forum to help discuss the promotion of the token and community. If he did, who got the forum administration employed ? and if he was not the one, then there was a link to him along the line of transferring the forum's leadership. He is not actually anonymous, am sure some people or organisation or government are hiding him

Great. AverageGlabella will be happy now...

I've rethought this, and I won't be releasing the PMs in 2021. I'm convinced that nobody will ever identify Satoshi no matter what info comes out, so I'm not worried about that, but I am concerned about the privacy of those who communicated with him. For example, kiba once said that he tried to send a gift to Satoshi, but Satoshi declined (reportedly saying something like "I already have plenty of BTC"). If the PMs for this exchange exist in the database and hypothetically look like this:

Then it would put a big target on kiba's back. (This is only a hypothetical example: in reality, kiba never published the amount he offered Satoshi, if any amount was even specified.) Even if I screened the PMs in advance for obvious stuff like this, it's impossible to find everything. Eg. maybe someone who talked to Satoshi was trying to be anonymous, but people are able to find him just based on his writing style or knowledge.

I do think that there could be historically-relevant info in there, so maybe if Bitcoin has taken over the world in like 50 years and historians are clamoring to know more about its history, I or my successors could be convinced to revisit the issue. Or maybe not; don't get your hopes up. (I still haven't read the PMs, BTW; maybe they're all really boring.)

There is the possibility that Satoshi wished his PMs and logged IP addresses released at some point, and considering the reference to the future and the time span of 8 years, could be possible that it would be impossible to track the identity of Satoshi through the proposed details.

Can we leave Satoshi alone! Who cares to identify the person? Focusing on the creation will help the human being than focusing to the creator. What is bad with Bitcoin?

We don't need to know who Satoshi really is. I don't think there's any information about him in his private messages. He always remained anonymous. I have no reason to mistrust Theymos, he is a man of his word.

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We have information on a lot of personal information from history, people used to write books and letters which were kept over generations/malleniums.

8 years may be a bit short but what’s the harm in posting someone’s pms, a lot of his emails were leaked already.

Haven't you heard?  Craig Steven Wright is Satoshi.

Following my What if? Satoshi Nakamoto's identity was public information   thread. Despite the conspiracy theories going on in the replies a user pointed out something interesting. That theymos is considering releasing the personal messages of Satoshi.

theymos posted this:

He posted that back in 2013. 8 years from then would be 2021. However I'm a little concerned about exposing personal information just because Satoshi is the one to have created the forum and Bitcoin. His personal data should be handled the exact same as any other user.

Theymos in the past has said that our data is safe from information requests unless he has reason to believe you are scamming or breaking the law. I'm pretty sure I've read that theymos has rejected several subpoenas because he didn't think there was sufficient reason to do so. Taking this into consideration why is theymos willing to release personal messages and logged IPs. Even if he used Tor to connect over the forum his data shouldn't be released. Sure its interesting information but he should not be treated any different.

As you can probably tell from this thread and my what if thread  I'm very against exposing any sort of personal data unless there's a good enough reason. I don't think that historic significance to the cryptocurrency world would be a good enough reason to expose his personal data.

theymos hadn't read Satoshi's PM's up until this quote and he said that he doesn't like to spy on peoples personal business. I don't think Satoshi should be treated any differently. Even if the information was of historic value and would be interesting to view.