Satoshi Nakamoto: Thoughts on excerpt from Duality?

[Tom Busby]

I'll be honest, I suspect that Satoshi was either Nick Szabo, Hal Finney,
or both working together. We'll never know for sure though.

On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, 5:31 pm mark M, <write2mark1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Georgi
> That’s a great test 🙏👍
>
> Tom
> The personal identity of Satoshi over time as you say is very nuanced much
> like dpr of Silk road as multiple characters over time took the mantle of
> dpr
>
> But even with all of the dprs Ross Ulbricht was definitely doxed by the
> feds
> Just worried there’s the very first og Satoshi who might still be around
>
> On Jul 3, 2018 at 8:49 PM, <Tom Busby <tom at busby.ninja>> wrote:
>
> Tbf there are no (spendable) accounts which are known to be Satoshi for
> sure.
>
> There's the genesis block reward (not spendable due to a quirk in the
> protocol), the address Satoshi used to send the first transaction to Hal
> Finney (was this really Satoshi? We don't know for sure) and there are a
> bunch of blocks that we strongly suspect were mined by Satoshi due to their
> characteristics (mainly the incrementing nonce value).
>
> Something signed with the genesis block reward address's private key would
> be best proof... But still not perfect, since we don't really even know if
> Satoshi was the same person over time, or if the same person operated all
> the Satoshi email/forum accounts.
>
> I don't believe this new pretender really is Satoshi  though (or,
> hypothetically, any of the people who spoke as "Satoshi") because the
> writing style is way off. Satoshi was never a mystic. Satoshi never spoke
> in grand narratives either, just engineering pragmatism.
>
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, 4:42 pm Georgi Guninski, <guninski at guninski.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:56:19PM +0200, Tom Busby wrote:
>> > Satoshi actually never, ever signed anything cryptographically.
>> >
>> No problem. As a proof of identity I request 1337.7331 bitcoins from one
>> of their accounts ;)
>>
>>
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