Topic: What if someone claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto? - page 4. (Read 4125 times)
currently it doesnt matter much who satoshi is anyways
sign his PGP key or prove that he owns the wallet with 1 million bitcoins.
He doesn't actually have a single address with all his bitcoin. He has several addresses (roughly 50k) with each address containing some amount above 50 BTC each (the block subsidy, plus the TX fees, plus the begging spam). As it was said several times, he should sign a message with an address that is known to be his.
This question may be asked earlier but how would we verify that person is telling the truth?
sign a message using a bitcoin address we know belongs to the creator (genesis block address or the address he used to sell coins to hal finney)
Got it thanks.
This question may be asked earlier but how would we verify that person is telling the truth?
sign a message using a bitcoin address we know belongs to the creator (genesis block address or the address he used to sell coins to hal finney)
sign his PGP key or prove that he owns the wallet with 1 million bitcoins.
This question may be asked earlier but how would we verify that person is telling the truth?
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