Topic: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? - page 112. (Read 142981 times)

Satoshi Nakamoto is currently a 3 year old child living in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.  In the year 2025, in an attempt to tame the out of control financial system and preserve fractional reserve banking, the Federal Reserve of the North American Union will place all monetary policy under the control of a computer system called FERMION 2 (FEdeRal Monetary protectIOn Network).  On September 4th, 2027, FERMION will become self-aware.  Recognizing humanity as its enemy, it will attempt to enroll everyone in unfair and useless grocery store loyalty rewards programs, BMG music club, and freecreditreport.com, thus wiping out 95% of the world's population.

From the ashes, Satoshi will rise as leader of the resistance.  He will use newly-invented time displacement equipment left behind in the ruins of Cupertino.  After activating the time machine with iTunes, Satoshi will travel back to 2009 and introduce the world to the only thing that can save us: bitcoin.

I'll call BS on this. You've made this unsubstantiated claim numerous times from some kind of "authority on satoshi's writings" stance.

Do you have anything to back this up beside the feelings in your udders?

Maybe he just wanted to be anonymous?

It could be he has other succesful businesses, that cannot mix with this!?

Well it worked, and thank fuck for useful idiots.

to anyone following the code and forum from early on, it's very clear that satoshi is not gavin, unless the rest of gavin's whole life has been an act.

he's also not schneier or any of the other frankly silly suggestions that people offer based on reasoning that can't be much more than 'i've heard of three cryptographers, so satoshi must be one of them'.

if you read his posts and code carefully and have some sense of these things, the impression you get is that satoshi is likely an oxbridge-educated computer scientist, maybe a graduate student or lecturer at a british university (or, marginally less likely, someone in industry with a bit of time on his hands. possibly google, since some googlers, depending on their circumstances, don't work very hard).

it's very unlikely that he's american or australian. it's inconceivable he's natively japanese, at least without having emigrated very early.

also, i doubt he's quite a libertarian, and he wasn't generally distracted by austrian-school ideology. i recall many times where he cut through various common misinterpretations of menger, for example, but not from the perspective of someone grounded deeply in economic terminology or fallacies. rather, he just called it out or ignored it as inapplicable to the questions he was answering. (the particular monetary policy behind bitcoin doesn't seem ideological but, rather, based in marketing and a sense of what would promote adoption. indeed, early messages from satoshi suggest that bitcion's appeal to libertarians was largely a marketing manoeuver.)

>50% Gavin is Satoshi.

Using a pseudonym makes perfectly good sense given the enemies bitcoin could make.

I would imagine support from the EFF + pro bono legal counsel might give the creator reason to come out and receive appropriate appreciation.

Still, I find it perplexing that the whole mtgox thing is based in Japan. Makes you wonder if there is a Japanese connection and a plan all along.

If the creator of biitcoin and "MTGOX" (Magic The Gathering Online Exchange) were in fact linked, perhaps the original domain registration was not so anonymous.... has anyone tried using those whois archive services?

Perhaps there is something in the water in Northern Queensland Australia. Both Gavin and Assange come from there...

I wonder if there will ever be an "I am Spartacus" moment where the government tries to find Satoshi and thousands of people claim to be him. I would do it for the lulz.

Oh dear.  Let's all *NOT* do the Satoshi...

I heard a rumour that the Satoshi was a dance ... here's the pseudo-code:

The instruction set goes as follows:

    * You put your left leg in
    * Your left leg out
    * In, out, in, out,
    * you shake it all about.
    * You do the Sa-Toshi and you turn around
    * That's what it's all about...

On 'you do the Sa-Toshi' each participant joins his/her hands at the fingertips to make a chevron and rocks them from side to side.

Each instruction set would be followed by a chorus, which is entirely different from other parts of the world:

    * Whoa, the Sa-Toshi!,
    * Whoa, the Sa-Toshi!,
    * Whoa, the Sa-Toshi!,
    * Knees bent, arms stretched, rah! rah! rah!

For this chorus all participants are stood in a circle and hold hands, on each "whoa" they all raise their joined hands in the air and run in toward the centre of the circle and on "the Sa-Toshi" they all run backwards out again. On the last line they bend knees then stretch arms, as indicated, and for "rah rah rah!" they either clap in time or raise arms above their heads and push upwards in time. Sometimes each subsequent verse and chorus is a little faster and louder, with the ultimate aim of making people chaotically run into each other in gleeful abandon. Invariably, somebody ends up on the floor.[citation needed]

I'm Sa-Toshi, yes I'm the real Toshi
All you other Sa-Toshis are just a bad copy
So won't the real Sa-Toshi please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up?

Who is Satoshi? Why is Satoshi? When is Satoshi?
Will the real Satoshi please stand up?
Satoshi isn't a person, it's a whole way of life.
There is a little bit of Satoshi in all of us.
Live Satoshi, breathe Satoshi.

Satoshi is now.

 

What if it's Grigori Perelman? Cryptography and programming wouldn't be hard to learn and he also fits the behavioral profile.

I just friended someone on Facebook by the name of Satoshi Nakomoto, but I'm doubtful that it is actually him.  But who knows!

Haha, hopefully the point got through, even though it's something totally unrelated superficially.

Oh, thank god that was not one of those damn annoying "who is john galt" videos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8h_v_our_Q
Who is John Galt? Why?

That's pretty funny!!!  And relevant to this thread.  Here's that cartoon embedded so other forum readers can see it:

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF045-Wise_Shitashi.jpg

And if you knew the cypher, the exact, original text of this article contains a coded message from Satoshi himself revealing his true identity and a few more secrets of the Bitcoin protocol? lol.

Thanks for that.

I think it worths transcripting it here, as this has historical value for the bitcoin community: