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Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Could Actually Be Group From Europe
An anonymous reader writes "Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could be a group from Europe which has a strong footing in the financial sector. From the article: 'Josh Zerlan, the Chief Operating Officer of Butterfly Labs and a person familiar with the Bitcoin network, has said it is highly likely that Nakamoto could be a group of people working the financial sector. Speaking to IBTimes UK on the sidelines of a Global Bitcoin Conference in Bangalore, India, Zerlan said: "One of the prevailing theories, I think has credibility, is that it was some group of people from financial sector that created this. They released it and stepped back and let it go. So, Satoshi Nakamoto is a group of people, I think, is a reasonable possibility."'"
and the only one.
Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto is Anonymous-style Cell from Europe
Anonymous-style??? Slightly biased headline designed to increase FUD about bitcoins.
Satoshi Nakamoto
Then again, it could be not. Interesting. I think I have had my number of conspiracy theories for today.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Rather than engage in actual tech news, let's speculate wildly(second guess in as many weeks) on the identity of someone who explicitly wanted to remain anonymous, and who has committed no crimes. That sounds like a grand engagement in journalistic credibility.
Anyone who really wanted to could find out my identity, but I wouldn't want them to start posting about their ideas as major headlines.
Josh Zerlan/Inaba, noted whiz-kid who runs one of the most fly-by-night ASIC companies, and who curses out his customers and insinuates things about their sexual proclivities rather than provide actual customer service. A highly-qualified individual to be speaking on the topic of Bitcoin, surely.
I'm pretty sure this worked out for Spartacus...
Everyone has a theory on who he might be, but he might not even exist at all.
Wow he sure offers some compelling evidence there... Oh wait, no he doesn't.
I think Santa Clause is Satashi Nakamoto.
Who are you, and where is my beloved slashdot dot org. Everyone knows bitcoins were invented by Leeeeeeeeeroy Jenkins!
"Hey, there's this really great thing called Bitcoin that you should use and/or invest in. Here's some literature on it."
"Wow, it sounds cool! Who invented it?"
"Uhhhh...."
Three men can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
the article is implying that satoshi nakamoto could be a group of people from the financial sector. this is just my initial takeaway.
The olde 'The idea is so clever, it must have been one of us'-Syndrome.
"Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could be a group from Europe which has a strong footing in the financial sector....could be a group of people working the financial sector.... some group of people from financial sector that created this...Satoshi Nakamoto is a group of people, I think"
Pointless random guesswork aside, why do journalists feel the need to say the exact same thing 3 to 5 times in the first few paragraphs? Once is enough, surely?
Wikipedia stated that satoshi has 1 million bit coins which has are equivalent to 1 billion U.S. currency ( Sorry. Awful research source but quick read )? In that case it's plausible some bored rich people got together to make a new money making scheme. Good for them I guess? Not the first time in history. Move along. Poor people: move out of the way! Rich people coming through!!
It's a straight up assumption based on bullshit. "Writing style" is the singly observed piece of "evidence" being interpreted.
Josh has measured rumor field strength and found it too convincing.
It's possible that he could be a time traveling alien collective with ties to the porn industry. It's certain feasible that it is possible that it might be that that could be the case.
It certainly seems reasonable that if there was a time traveling alien collective with ties to the porn industry, that a distributed, non-material currency such as bit coin would be advantageous to them. In fact any such group that arrived before bit coin would be almost compelled to create it. So I think we can say, case closed.
Josh and BFL have no credibility. If you'd said Santa Claus said this, it would carry just as much weight.
It's a straight up assumption based on bullshit. "Writing style" is the singly observed piece of "evidence" being interpreted.
So, if you're a narcissist who wants the world to wonder if you, too, are the real Satoshi Nakamoto, just copy "his" writing style.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Not only is Hal Finney one of the few cypherpunks around with the skillz to create BitCoin, he released "Magic Money" under the pseudonym "Pr0duct Cipher" about 18 years ago. I think he decided to have another go at it, even if he was engaged in a public e-mail conversation with "Satoshi" about it on the Cryptography mailing-list.
Just a wild guess, because Hal Finney is a good guy and I hope he has a lot of BTC saved up from the early days to pay for his care (he suffers from ALS.)
Why did the creator(s) of Bitcoin decide to stay anonymous? I never understood the motive for that and it always struck me as a red flag.
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That will be Satoshi Nakamoto.
Zerlan hasn't often been accurate in his estimates of things.
I'm not going to bother to link to these because a quick Google search can turn up the evidence.
Nakamoto registered the bitcoin.org domain on a somewhat obscure Japanese site. His communication in English had all kinds of clues that his native language was Japanese (sentence structure, word choice, etc.). He was active during daylight and evening hours in Japan.
I really wish people would stop speculating who he is. It only matters to those who can't read the code and understand that it ultimately doesn't matter, except the possibility that he may one day "come back" and have several hundred thousand Bitcoin to himself. As benevolent as he acted, it's unlikely that he'll pull a Biff Tannen and rule the world. However, miners have the power to stop him if he tries.
Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
Harough, Hans!
Think about it.
Chip fabricators get together with a brilliant plan to produce a demand for special chips by creating a fake currency that requires special chip fabrication in order to create that fake currency.
After the first round they use their fabrication profits to buy up that fake currency as a way to artificially increase the price causing an even greater demand for the fake currency leading to another round of fabrication of even faster chips.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
"Nick Szabo"
Must be bitcoin day with all these articles popping up faster than ravioli in hot water.
the NSA must know, therefore Snowdon must know, therefore we will know QED.
What addresses were used for the start of the block chain? It is likely that Santoshi would be associated with these addresses. Has anyone looked into this to see what might be figured out? You could also tell what addresses any bitcoins may have been transferred to from the very first addresses used. After all, if someone is rich by having the very first bunch of bitcoins, they eventually would need to be transferred somewhere, or to cash, to make them valuable to him.
Yeah I know... if he's smart enough (and he likely is), he wouldn't have been so stupid to leave any interesting history for the early bitcoin addresses. But, I'd start there just to be thorough.
Or maybe the Bilderberg group. Whee, it's fun to pull guesses right out of my butt while presenting absolutely no evidence whatsoever.
I read the internet for the articles.
There is more military propaganda than news these days.
It is probably the NSA using your hashing power to break encryption.
I make this statement knowing approximately nothing about crypto.
> Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Could Actually Be Group From Europe
1. If they are a group, they needed to communicate to collaborate effectively
2. NSA + GCHQ watches all coms in Europe
3. NSA knows who they are
4. FED tells CIA to exterminate this dangerous group who aim to topple the US dollar
5. Bitcoin project therefore never gets published
6. Point five collides with reality
7. Point six shows they were not a group from Europe
I'm a narcissist, we have better ways of getting attention I think...
Yeah, the dude who owns BFL can say whatever the fuck he wants. BFL isn't exactly the company you want to go to for reliable information...
Case and point "Our first batch will ship in a month!"... 3 months later..... "Our first batch is still ready to ship this month!"....
Need I say more?
How about, before posting, you scan your headlines/summaries for words like 'could', 'might, 'possibly', 'maybe', 'probably', and ask yourself whether you're posting news about stuff that matters or just speculations with some trigger keywords.
he doesn't want to admit it, because he's taken so much guff from people who say he claimed to have invented the internet.
how is is a news!
Santa, Aliens, FSM etc. Film at 11.
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them." ~ Louis Armstrong
If an article title contains the word "could" then you should append on the end "but it isn't", and this will render a true statement.
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So glad that he qualified that statement with "could be". Otherwise, we might have to take it seriously...
This was also discussed 3 years ago on the bitcoin forums. Good job, news people!
Duh... It's a subdvision of the Keyser Söze Group in the W.A.S.T.E operations department of Illuminatus holdings conglomerate. A few years ago they had a hostile take over bid from KAOS but the man UNCLE subverted it.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Even when there's nothing to talk about, you can have a Bitcoin story on the Slashdot front page every day.
This isn't even "news for nerds," it's Usenet-style speculation for the terminally bored.
My theory is: I don't give a shit.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Satoshi Nakamoto is actually "Bank"sy
Oh now, everyone knows that real narcissists dont post anonymously.
You guys remember POGS right? I speculate they will make a comeback and be worth $40,000 USD. nice.
Is it petulant to assume that just because you have no justification to believe someone has committed a crime you have to find something?
That makes little sense.... By the same standard even if you knew a great deal about me or anyone else I could still have committed a crime that you simply have no evidence for or reason to suspect me of.
So what has he done and who are you to try and pin something on someone?
And by "stepped back and let it go" I suppose you mean "pocketed initially fully half the bitcoins that the currency can realistically support, amounting to a huge fortune in what would quickly become a crashed market were they cashed out." The "stepped back" creator could stick a knife in this experiment any time s/he chooses, and walk away with a huge sum of money for the trouble.
Nice try, Satoshi.
Nick Szabo.
So the Golden Girls are Satoshi Nakamoto?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Take anything someone from Butterfly Labs says with a mountain of salt.
We're taking speculation from Butterfly Labs now? The company that delivers their products 6-8 months behind schedule? ...Actually nevermind... Their products are pure speculation so I guess that's what they're good at. ;)
http://www.businessinsider.in/The-Latest-Theory-Is-That-The-Creator-Of-Bitcoin-Is-A-Blogger/articleshow/26804439.cms
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