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Craig Wright Claims He's Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator Of Bitcoin
Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has put an end to the years-long speculation about the creator of Bitcoin. In an interview with the BBC, The Economist (may have a paywall), and GQ, Wright claimed that he is indeed the person who developed the concepts on which Bitcoin cryptocurrency is built. According to the BBC, Mr. Wright provided "technical proof to back up his claim using coins known to be owned by Bitcoin's creator." Wright writes in a blog post: [A]fter many years, and having experienced the ebb and flow of life those years have brought, I think I am finally at peace with what he meant. If I sign Craig Wright, it is not the same as if I sign Craig Wright, Satoshi[...] Since those early days, after distancing myself from the public persona that was Satoshi, I have poured every measure of myself into research. I have been silent, but I have not been absent. I have been engaged with an exceptional group and look forward to sharing our remarkable work when they are ready. Satoshi is dead. But this is only the beginning. According to Wright's website, he is a "computer scientist, businessman and inventor" born in Brisbane, Australia, in October 1970. Some have questioned the authenticity and relevance of the "technical proof" Wright has provided. Nik Cubrilovic, an Australian former hacker and leading internet security blogger, wrote, "I don't believe for a second Wright is Satoshi. I know two people who worked with Wright, characterized him as crazy and schemer/charlatan." Michele Spagnuolo, Information Security Engineer at Google added, "He's not Satoshi. He just reused a signed message (of a Sartre text) by Satoshi with block 9 key as 'proof.'"
The real Satoshi Nakamoto is worth at minimum around a half a billion dollars.
The simplest proof would be transfering 0.01 bitcoins from a Very Early Block, to an address provided by a reputable bunch of challengers.
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I know two people who worked with Wright, characterized him as crazy and schemer/charlatan
How does this make him *not* a candidate for being the creator of BitCoin? To me that just seems to reinforce his claim.
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And we must respect that, or liberals will boycott us.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
So the big news of the day is that Bitcoin's creator has stepped forward.
Let's nip it in the bud. No, he has not. A con man who was already outed half a year ago has made an elaborate stunt to try to convince people he's Satoshi. The stunt was quickly debunked.
For the technically minded: A cryptographic signature of text A will not be the same as the signature of text B, even if you use the same key. The signature Craig Wright claims is of text B has been found to be a known signature in the Bitcoin blockchain of text A.
Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.
He's a con man: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
Re-used signature: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitco...
it's in my head
It rather cool to be anonymous. Wonder why he's coming out. And how do we know it's really him?
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
Just how much energy has been wasted mining bitcoins over the years.
Probably less than one billionth of the amount of energy that's been used to view porn on the internet over the same period of time.
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You liar!
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
Just how much energy has been wasted mining bitcoins over the years.
Probably less than one billionth of the amount of energy that's been used to view porn on the internet over the same period of time.
One of those two activities has eventually brought satisfaction to individuals. The other one has kept the hand-lotion-and-kleenex industry thriving for decades.
Prove it.. Make that genesis block move.
https://blockchain.info/block-index/14849
Glad we're still talking about this pointless, shitty technology from 2009. What's next, we'll be Waving each other about the stuff we found on Bing?
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I've worked with Mr. Nakamoto before, and this fraud isn't it. Why people are so attracted to the spotlight they pull retarded stunts like this is something I will never understand.
I am Satoshi and so is my wife!
We are also Charlie Hebdo and Sasha Fierce.
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In his blog post, he writes:
"The SHA256 algorithm provides for a maximum message size of (2^128 - 1) bits of information whilst returning 32 bytes or 256 bits as an output value. The number of possible messages that can be input into the SHA256 hash function totals (2^128 - 1)! possible input values ranging in size from 0 bits through to the maximal acceptable range that we noted above."
There are two obvious errors in this paragraph. The maximum message size of SHA-256 is (2^64 - 1) bits and the total number possible input messages is (2^(2^64) - 1). I doubt that the inventor of Bitcoin would make such fundamental mistakes.
Indeed. Working in those mining data centers really dries the skin, and the low returns are definitely responsible for many tears being shed. I think "decades" is a stretch though.
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Mod rascist, this is pretty sick
Shatoshi Nakamoto!
How much energy has been wasted (and human life lost) mining a certain yellow metal out of the Earth? Granted gold has some practical use in manufacturing & electronics, but not so much that it justifies the inflation of its value caused by using it as money. Both gold and Bitcoin are valuable (or not) primarily because people believe in their value and because their supply is limited.
As far as I know, nobody ever died mining Bitcoin.
And you! and you! Everyone is Satoshi!
Oh, man, sweet, squirt that over to me.
That's what is really important!!!! (hence the exclamation marks!!!)
Granddaddy's had a bad case of bit-lung since ought-five, sadly he's not going to be with us much longer.
Not to mention dozens of sysadmins killed when the bitmill burnt down because management chained the doors.
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Just how much energy has been wasted mining bitcoins over the years.
Bitcoin mining is done where electricity is cheap, which means baseload hydropower in places like Iceland or Oregon. So the only "waste" is water flowing to the sea at a slightly lower velocity.
This guy, and anyone that uses Bitcoin, is a drain on society and resources.
Compared to what? Would we better off if people mined more gold and diamonds instead?
...now we know who to blame
Table-ized A.I.
Two cases:
Either Satoshi has his private keys from back then, or he doesn't.
If he has his private key, have him sign a message that reads "John R. Smith is Satoshi Nakamoto" with his private key.
If he doesn't, I say it doesn't matter who he is, his money isn't going anywhere.
Sa-to-shi Na-ka-mo-to (do the math)
Just how much energy has been wasted mining bitcoins over the years. This guy, and anyone that uses Bitcoin, is a drain on society and resources.
You could say exactly the same thing about gold. And more: the countless lives that have been lost digging gold out of the ground, only to have most of it sit in vaults. At least we don't have mine collapses and typhoid epidemics in the bit-coin mining camps.
As any fiction, a brittle cobweb of delusion is the vital source of Bitcoin's value.
On the one hand a known scammer provided a bag of bytes that he claims proves he is Satoshi and some people who don't understand cryptography believed him. On the other hand everyone with the expertise to evaluate his "proof" that have examined it have conclusively determined its a sham.
I know this is slashdot and all but these "two sides" don't deserve equal time.
Maybe he really *is* the founder of bitcoin, but claiming to be the founder in a way that everybody will debunk - thus the Australian tax authorities won't go after the half-billion dollars or so that he has in bitcoin?
A.
He/she has nothing to prove.
Hey, check out this new Nickelback song on my Zune!
That reminds me of a funny thing one of my co-workers said about his Zune (this was almost 10 years ago.)
He was describing the features of the Zune in comparison with the iPod. One neat thing was, he said, that one Zune could "loan" a song to another Zune. (I think the song would last for 3 days then go *poof*.)
I said, "Wow, that's pretty neat. How does that work?"
He said, "I don't know... I haven't met anyone else with a Zune yet."
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Just how much energy has been wasted mining bitcoins over the years.
Bitcoin mining is done where electricity is cheap, which means baseload hydropower in places like Iceland or Oregon. So the only "waste" is water flowing to the sea at a slightly lower velocity.
Hydropower isn't free nor without impact on the nature (and I'm not talking about building the powerplants here, just using them). Wasting it on something is still a waste.
This guy, and anyone that uses Bitcoin, is a drain on society and resources.
Compared to what? Would we better off if people mined more gold and diamonds instead?
How about not trying to create a strawman? But even then: yes, both gold and diamonds are useful for manufacturing, medical treatments etc.
Wasting power is still a waste.
On the one hand, if this apparent fraudster is Nakamoto, then this is hillarious. On the other hand, if this guy, who has apparently fooled at least two major figures in the BTC community, isn't, then this is hillarious.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
True as far as the initial mining goes. But gold embodies the energy used to create it, after that it takes little energy to use it as a secure currency. "Counterfeit" gold would require use of present energy and cost as much as or more than the real thing.
Whereas bitcoins embody no energy and to prevent counterfeiting *require* a increasing use of present energy in the form of ever more difficult blockchain mining. As more energy is needed the old bitcoins lose relative value; if verification could somehow be done with less energy then counterfeiting would be cheaper than mining.
Either way, the whole scheme has to collapse after a massive waste of energy.
Not trying to bait or derail, but can you provide some examples of how hydropower impacts nature? You already have dismissed the construction phase...
Well? Did he ever meet anybody else with a Zune?
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
Seriously, why is that of any importance? Even if you use BitCoin, what does knowing who came up with it accomplish?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Decades is not a stretch. Were were printing out ascii-art porn from usenet on the line printers at UC Irvine in 1986.
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Or on other peoples' computers.
An interesting anagram of "BANACH TARSKI" is "BANACH TARSKI BANACH TARSKI"
Right, I'd forgotten about the Zune's ability to "squirt" songs.
I can't believe they used that term.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
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(And so's my wife)
Nicely done. Can we be rid of all this bit ponzi shit now, finally.
Please prepare to deliver Genesis to us upon our arrival. Reliant out.
Decades is not a stretch. Were were printing out ascii-art porn from usenet on the line printers at UC Irvine in 1986.
You got WOOSHed
with pictures of his suave-looking persona in every article, sort of tells that he wants attention more than anything. I don't think he's Satoshi. Will there be a 3rd attempt at convincing people? He should go pick up women instead, he looks like he could pull that off at least.
ASCII porn was a thing in the early 70's at least, and probably earlier - I just wasn't in a situation where it was available until I got to secondary school.
However, GP was, humorously, alluding to the fact that data centers have not been around for decades, or, at least, that they have not been used for bitcoin mining.for decades.
It's time to reveal to the world that I invented Craig Wright from the left over hot air in making my Silver Nitrate for my alias.
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Ah, but aren't those just the kind of blatant mistakes Satoshi would make if he wanted to convince the world that he isn't Craig Wright?
What better way to protect your anonymity than jump in the spotlight and play the buffoon so everybody ignores you?
This guy's subtle.
That EXACTLY the sort of thing that Satoshi would post to make us think that Craig is actually Satoshi, and further obfuscate his real identity.
Well played, Mr Satoshi. Well played.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Wouldn't it be really really funny if Satoshi Nakamoto *lost* his key to all of his bit coins?
Yes, but they're working on devices to generate power via kinetic energy. That means they'll reclaim all that and more within the next few years...
Ah, yes, a feature that wasn't really a feature. Had Microsoft implemented it with fewer restrictions, the Zune might have had a chance. It had quite a number of restrictions that made it practically useless. Most people don't know about "squirting" was that the Zune would delete all media not just ones that had DRM. So if you "loaned" a recording of your child singing the alphabet to the grandparents, it would be deleted in 3 days. Also copyright holders like Universal could prevent any of their songs from being shared (which they did). In the end, it would not have been utilized much even if you could find other owners.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I have it on pretty good authority that the real Satoshi Nakamoto is actually a half-Malaysian, half-Chinese guy born in the UK and has been living in Japan for about 20 years now.
If it's true, he is a very smart guy and owns a business for fun in Japan currently. He's also worked for Microsoft and Amazon. His real initials are D.C.
I'm sure Googling based on that can pinpoint it. But yeah, I hope one day before I die that the world figures out who the real genius behind BitCoin is.
In case he is hiding in plain sight
For technical reasons, the coins in Block 0 (zero) can't be spent (moved).
both gold and diamonds are useful for manufacturing, medical treatments etc.
Only a tiny fraction of gold is used in industry. Nearly all is used to store value as either bullion, coinage, or jewelry. Gold mining is terribly destructive, creating erosion and mercury contamination. Most industrial diamonds are manufactured, not mined. Diamond mining fuels wars and funds corrupt governments.
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Explain why (handwaving 'technical reasons' doesn't work on a site full of technical geniuses) or GTFO.
Bitcoins kinda do embody the energy required to calculate their hashes, and they also take little energy (actually less energy) to store than compared to gold.