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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."'"
Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto is Anonymous-style Cell from Europe
Anonymous-style??? Slightly biased headline designed to increase FUD about bitcoins.
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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.
Three men can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
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?
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
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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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.
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Harough, Hans!
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.
"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...."
It's not that big deal. How many can name the inventor of PayPal off the top of their head, for example? Engineering is a thankless job...
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.
It is probably the NSA using your hashing power to break encryption.
I make this statement knowing approximately nothing about crypto.
A group of people, no matter how small, keeping the fact that you're sitting on 1BN a secret? Someone's going to spill the beans to someone soon enough. Or it's one guy, and he's already rich enough that there's little temptation.
That's my wild speculation. :)
The ability to face-to-face transfer wallet information makes Bitcoin's blockchain less than foolproof.
As long as I can create a number of wallets, put a bitcoin in each of them, write those wallets down on pieces of paper; I can trade them like I would cash.
No, *I* am Spartacus!
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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.
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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This was also discussed 3 years ago on the bitcoin forums. Good job, news people!
"Nick Szabo" is also a group of people.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
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.
Franklin W. Dixon?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Yep. As long as you trust the person you're trading with not to photocopy them and give them to someone else as well and then see which of you tries to spend it first...
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Satoshi Nakamoto is actually "Bank"sy
You mean, exactly the same problem as any printed check?
I'm saying that the block chain record isn't proof of anything, since coins can change hands in unrecorded steps quite easily.
No, I'm just going with the basic common law interpretation that you must have evidence a crime has been committed before you can get a warrant to arrest a perpetrator.
No i'm spartacus! and so's my wife!
The larger the sum, the smaller the group necessary to keep the secret from leaking out.
So the Golden Girls are Satoshi Nakamoto?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Yes. And the most efficient communication still is face-to-face.
Including all face-to-face ones?
Maybe. Or maybe not.
At that time, even rf the FEDs knew it, they most probably wouldn't have considered it an immediate threat to the dollar. And when it starts to be one, they still have the power to stop it. And maybe they ordered the NSA to mine enough bitcoins to crash the bitcoin market if necessary?
In the mean time the bitcoin network with its perceived anonymity together with a perfect transaction record on the block chain is the ideal tool to find criminals and other people trying to hide from the authorities (case in point: Silk Road).
Wrong, see above.
That doesn't matter because point 5 is wrong anyway.
Due to the flaws mentioned above, it doesn't.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
That must have taken a tremendous amount of foresight to have predicted the fourth generation of technology that would arise from such computations. CPU to GPU to FPGA to ASIC. I think you give them to much credit. Far easier for it not to be some vast conspiracy at all.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
It's hard to keep being rich a secret. Somebody gets a girlfriend, some dude brags about having a big wallet full of bitcoins to her, she tells a girlfriend, and then it's on Facebook.
*shrug*
It's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
Or he might simply not see money as his primary motivation in life. There are cultures on this planet that know the concept of "enough money", and we know from several scientific studies that happiness increases with money only up to a certain amount of affluence (which is surprisingly low, most adult readers of this site will have reached it).
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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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