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Topic: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? - page 110. (Read 143064 times)

legendary
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March 12, 2012, 04:19:52 PM
We will know who Satoshi Nakamoto is the day he chooses to reveal himself (for example, by revealing the private key that can redeem the generation transaction from the genesis block). Until that happens, all we can do is guess - and we won't know if we are right.
legendary
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
March 12, 2012, 03:07:00 PM
For those curious as to why Satoshi Nakamoto opt to become mysterious, perhaps the answer lies here: http://www.ted.com/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html (for what it's worth, you won't be disappointed)
legendary
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Eadem mutata resurgo
March 08, 2012, 04:49:19 AM

The concepts in the paper
http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/228/

are clearly related to bitcoin and online cash but I would say are an iteration or two beforehand, they all are based on client-server models (like Open Transactions). The peer-to-peer (decentralisation) crucial (and most brilliant) step of bitcoin has come along after, or entirely separately, I would guess.

The forth-like script stuff for the tx is someone experienced with thinking in very low level network functionality (big endian) ...

Holy Trinity, O'Mahony, Pierce and Clear? Smiley

Who knows, who really cares anyway? Godspeed to whoever it is.
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March 08, 2012, 04:17:16 AM
IMO the best proof we could get would be obtained by doing an extensive bibliographic research on the topic. Then :

- Compare writing style in paper (difficult, since there's never one person to write a paper)
- Compare figures, and trying to find out which software was used to generate them (again not the best proof, but still informative)
- Get source code examples from the articles, and compare it with Satoshi style. Mostly in comments, and in the naming of functions/variables.

Something odd about the satoshi whitepaper is that there's no Fig # below the figures. That's something most researcher automatically do while writing, which could suggest a young one, not used to write papers.

Anyway, we'll never be sure, and that's ok with me. Whoever you are, thanks dude Wink
legendary
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
March 08, 2012, 03:45:58 AM

or Michael Pierce is his student who produced this ...

http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/228/

To be clear, even though the other thread I just created is in reference to marcus_of_augustus's post (quoted) and is time stamped one minute later, I was not aware of this post when I pen the OP of the new thread. If that were not the case, I would've stated it as such.

~Bruno~
legendary
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March 08, 2012, 03:44:59 AM
We may never know who Satoshi is(and do we really want to know?), but I think it's starting to be clear where Bitcoin was invented: University of Dublin Trinity College
legendary
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Eadem mutata resurgo
March 08, 2012, 03:38:45 AM

or Michael Pierce is his student who produced this ...

http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/228/
legendary
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March 08, 2012, 03:29:08 AM
Donal O’Mahony
University of Dublin Trinity College

Isn't this the school where Michael Clear studied?
His teacher maybe? Wink

The pieces of the puzzle are starting to fit lol

It shows ivntech.com because probably that domain got taken down and redirected with a 301 to bitcoin.com on a later date. It's just a guess, but it's what makes most sense, despite ivntech.com being online (or just registered) again since 2007

EDIT: Oh shit Moment: TwoHop: Metric-Based Trust Evaluation for Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Environments 2008

Also some more interesting titles at http://65.54.113.26/Detail?entitytype=2&searchtype=2&id=1718958
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March 08, 2012, 03:26:45 AM
Why hasn't anybody done this yet? I searched bitcoin.com on archive.org, read what was written in 2009, then arrived at the following:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronic-Payment-commerce-computer-security/dp/1580532683



Authors: Donal O'Mahony;  Michael Peirce; Hitesh Tewari.

I find it amazing that not a one of them has yet to pen a word about Bitcoin giving the book they published.

I do find this fascinating: http://www.davy.ie/Generic?page=davysnewsresearch

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In the international bond and currency arena, our global strategist, Donal O' Mahony, has developed a broad-based following for his consistent and accurate commentary on macroeconomic and financial market trends.

http://65.54.113.26/Author/1718958/donal-o-mahony

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Interests: Networks & Communications, Security & Privacy, Distributed & Parallel Computing

~Bruno~

I never really used archive.org extensively, but why when clicking on the back link archive.org gives the results for ivntech.com?
legendary
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
March 08, 2012, 02:43:09 AM
Why hasn't anybody done this yet? I searched bitcoin.com on archive.org, read what was written in 2009, then arrived at the following:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronic-Payment-commerce-computer-security/dp/1580532683



Authors: Donal O'Mahony;  Michael Peirce; Hitesh Tewari.

I find it amazing that not a one of them has yet to pen a word about Bitcoin giving the book they published.

I do find this fascinating: http://www.davy.ie/Generic?page=davysnewsresearch

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In the international bond and currency arena, our global strategist, Donal O' Mahony, has developed a broad-based following for his consistent and accurate commentary on macroeconomic and financial market trends.

http://65.54.113.26/Author/1718958/donal-o-mahony

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Interests: Networks & Communications, Security & Privacy, Distributed & Parallel Computing

~Bruno~
legendary
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
March 08, 2012, 12:14:06 AM
Maybe he is Phil Zimmerman, the creator of PGP?

And I found his brother who sang "No More Auction Block":


legendary
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Strength in numbers
March 07, 2012, 10:21:50 PM
If I could be two people I'd be Bernanke and Satoshi. How could you lose? It's the ultimate epic hedge.
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March 07, 2012, 10:19:43 PM
Maybe he is Phil Zimmerman, the creator of PGP?
legendary
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August 24, 2011, 09:17:53 PM
It's the guy from the Dharma Initiative!
sr. member
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August 24, 2011, 03:50:57 PM
I already revealed Satoishi's identity a few weeks ago in the Newbies forum!

It's ....



Ben Bernanke!

He can't come forward publicly for obvious reasons.
member
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August 24, 2011, 07:33:25 AM
Satoshi is the owner of Meze Grill. He just wanted to sell more pitas...

LOL I was coming to say just this  Grin
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August 23, 2011, 09:58:24 PM
Satoshi is the owner of Meze Grill. He just wanted to sell more pitas...
legendary
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Varanida : Fair & Transparent Digital Ecosystem
August 23, 2011, 09:41:53 PM
He is the vampire, lead his posterity to conquer the world.
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August 23, 2011, 09:15:39 PM
I am Satoshi Nakamoto  Smiley
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