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Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin? (cryptocoinsnews.com)
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It should be no surprise that the elusive hunt for Satoshi, often referred to as the father of Bitcoin, has led to the theory that Elon Musk has been hiding a big secret from all of us. Sahil Gupta, a computer science student at Yale University and former intern at SpaceX, believes just this... Bitcoin was written by someone with mastery of C++, a language Musk has utilized heavily at SpaceX. Musk's 2013 Hyperloop paper also provided insight into his deep understanding of cryptography and economics...
One week before Gupta's Medium post on Musk, another Medium blog was published with a theory that Musk invented Bitcoin for future use on Mars. As radical as this may sounds, the point around Paypal in this article was relevant. Musk has already revolutionized digital currency with his founding role in Paypal, which he sold to eBay in 2002. The author claims Musk is under a non-compete from this deal, leaving him to secrecy about his role in Bitcoin.
Gupta's article cites other clues that suport his theory, including Musk's interest in solving global problems, his unusual silence on the topic of cryptocurrencies, and the fact that "Elon has said publicly he doesn't own any bitcoin, which is consistent with a 'Good Satoshi' who deleted his private keys. This means Satoshi's one million coins (worth about $8 billion) are gone for good." And of course, with a net worth of $19.7 billion, Elon Musk is one of the few people who wouldn't need the money.
UPDATE (11/28/17): On Twitter, Elon Musk has responded, saying the rumors that he created Bitcoin are "not true."
One week before Gupta's Medium post on Musk, another Medium blog was published with a theory that Musk invented Bitcoin for future use on Mars. As radical as this may sounds, the point around Paypal in this article was relevant. Musk has already revolutionized digital currency with his founding role in Paypal, which he sold to eBay in 2002. The author claims Musk is under a non-compete from this deal, leaving him to secrecy about his role in Bitcoin.
Gupta's article cites other clues that suport his theory, including Musk's interest in solving global problems, his unusual silence on the topic of cryptocurrencies, and the fact that "Elon has said publicly he doesn't own any bitcoin, which is consistent with a 'Good Satoshi' who deleted his private keys. This means Satoshi's one million coins (worth about $8 billion) are gone for good." And of course, with a net worth of $19.7 billion, Elon Musk is one of the few people who wouldn't need the money.
UPDATE (11/28/17): On Twitter, Elon Musk has responded, saying the rumors that he created Bitcoin are "not true."
No.
but once it reaches $10G, I fully expect Donald Trump to take credit for it
Because this is a new low in a series of very low quality stories that recently made it on slashdot. While the comments also seem to have slipped and the idiots seem to have the majority now, I do not think they should be catered to.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
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"Elon Musk doesn't talk about cryptocurrencies, therefore he must have invented bitcoin."
The stupid, it hurts.
Somebody spent about a decade in elementary school. Must have been quite the status symbol to be the only 5th grader driving to school.
As if he's got enough free time to do this as a side project.
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The answer is "no", and someone seriously needs to loosen their tinfoil hat.
Log in or piss off.
Elon has been secretly buying even more Bitcoins with all his government grants to prop up TESLA. Those GigaFactories, are really covert Bitcoin mines which are powered by... wait for it... his SolarCity project.
Ultimately, Elon is a visionary. Whilst everyone is talking about Bitcoin going to the moon, Elon had plans to take it to mars all along... enter SpaceX!
What about the underground Boring company you ask? That's his version of puting all his cold wallet stored Bitcoins in the ground, like gold, except 1 Bitcoin is now worth more than 1oz of gold, so you gotta have much bigger holes in the ground. The Hyperloop was just a pet project to ensure he could quickly access all his geographically dispersed underground cold storage Bitcoins, should the need ever arise.
Finally though, he saw that AI would be smart enough to figure out where he stashed all his Bitcoins, so he's come up with the NeuroLace project to enhance the human capacity to memorize Bitcoin brain wallet addresses, whilst still ensuring a high degree of entropy.
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What are the odds that the one famous person who knows c+ did this, and the other millions of smart non famous programmers, didn't.
I know we love our celebrities but come on. Besides hes got an ego the size of the moon. There is no way he is not bragging about inventing bitcoin.
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In this age of widespread online snooping, no government in the world knows at all who the creator of Bitcoin is? Did the man never use the internet when creating his cryptocurrency? Did he not go through an ISP or gateway of some sort? Did he not make 1 single mistake when trying to cover his tracks? This seems to be another "great mystery" that may not be as "unsolvable" as it appears.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
Oh please! Shirley you're not serious. Find me a billionaire who actually believes that! Bezoz is his target... This is animal instinct. The only thing on their mind is "more"...
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clues that suport his theory
There are no "clues" in the articles, just drivel. Two of the articles describe the ideas as "oddball" and that's right. There's no point in wasting time on conspiracy theorists and their "theories".
No, he didn't. Is Musk a programmer anyway? I find it hard to believe he's doing the programming at SpaceX.
I rather like the theory that Wright was, actually, really, Nakamoto, because I'd expect Nakamoto to be that dodgy. It's just a shame that if he was, he chickened out at the last minute.
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Is there any low-quality schlock submission that EditorDavid won’t post? This is shit even by EditorDavid standards.
Hell, I know C++ (I used to have a desk next to someone on the standards committee) and I know cryptography (I was part of the OpenPGP working group and wrote a conforming implementation from the draft spec alone just to prove that the spec was good enough).
Why is nobody claiming I'm Satoshi?
Apart from the fact that I already have a pretty good pseudonym, and that I clearly don't have Satoshi-level crypto knowledge, the real reason is that I'm nobody. Satoshi was a mythical lone genius, which means he must be someone that most people have heard on. Only people with had-a-voice-role-on-The-Simpsons-level fame get attached to rumours like this.
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This is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen or heard in a long, long time.
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They already do.
How the NSA identified satoshi
Bitcoin was written by someone with mastery of C++, a language Musk has utilized heavily at SpaceX.
a) Musk personally, or the people Musk employs at SpaceX?
b) It's C++. It's not exactly esoteric. You know I heard that DB Cooper spoke English, and so does Clint Eastwood... coincideeeence?
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Sounds like a poorly written fanfic to me.
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No.
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Very clever, Satoshi, very clever.
All the celebrity crap is bad enough as it is. Not sure if I can take it if we start doing it in here also.
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fully breaking SHA-256 would require more energy than the Sun (Sol) has left.
Unless you got lucky with the guessing.
I figure it's only a matter of time before one of them tells us the Elon also created the Universe 13.7 billion years ago.
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
It doesn't really even confirm that Musk knows c++ only that it is used at his company.
Likewise, the claim that Musk has a "deep knowledge of cryptography", is based on the fact that it was mentioned in a paper that that he co-wrote with other people.
This is stupider than the flat earth conspiracy.
I know C++, I learned economics and crypto at school, I also own a credit card. That obviously makes me a master of cryptocurrencies. /facepalm
But this is not enough, so let me prove you I am Satoshi : I don't own any bitcoin, and I don't bring the topic on bitcoin for unrelated conversations.
And if that story makes sense, it would make sense for millions of people. Nice story though. I would have preferred Steve Jobs though, leaving us with bitcoin just before his death, and getting buried with the private key would have made a great story.
It was revealed that Elon Musk actually invented baseball. Also apple pie.
and the fact that "Elon has said publicly he doesn't own any bitcoin, which is consistent with a 'Good Satoshi' who deleted his private keys.
Being consistent with some theory is a pretty low standard, something even creationists and fake moon landing theorists achieve.
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Because if you owned $8 billion plus in bitcoins we would expect that you'd cash them in at some point, and that would be bad for all the Slashdot editors who are heavily invested in bitcoins.
However, if Musk owns $8 billion in bitcoins we might hope he deleted them, avoiding the sword of Damocles (except for all the other early adopters who own bazillions of dollars worth).
It was a collaboration, but I can't tell you that because... Keyser Soze. I know you doubt me; the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he doesn't exist. I figure somehow this hurt the Hungarians.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I completely agree, but if you are having a meeting with Musk about a software product, go into it with the technical details. He will ask about middleware layers, frameworks, back-end tech, etc.
Most CEOs could give a shit.
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Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
'Nuff said.
Move along folks, nothing to see.
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Please tell me there's a way I can filter out all stories that have anything remotely to do with Elon F'ing Musk, please.
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Elon Musk invented BitCoin? Surely not. I heard it was Kim Jong-un.
True enough. If I had $8 billion in bitcoins... well, I might not cash out all of them...
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If he did, it would be the only thing Elon has ever introduced to the market that actually had net positive financial value.
So no, he did not.
At one million bitcoins if the key was still around what about selling it of slowly and invest in stocks and use that profit to improve the situation for man kind or something?
If bitcoin would end up being worth a whole lot more then this could had been one way of redistributing wealth if Musk felt he didn't needed it himself.
After not only making Paypal, building SpaceX, revolutioning the auto industry with Tesla, proposing the Hyperloop and kickstarting the brain lace, now rumor has it that Musk also built bitcoin out of the kindness of his heart (because Sakamoto -aka Elon- supposedly didn't keep the founder's stack of coins).
Give me (and Elon) an effin break.
Invented the cure for cancer, but is under a non compete that prevents him from releasing it.
World currently burns more than 2% of total U.S. residential energy consumption on the childish pursuit of bitcoin "mining".
For what? A currency system with the worst privacy story imaginable?
Personally I couldn't care less who invented it. My view the world is better off without it.
Why is nobody claiming I'm Satoshi?
Hell, gimme a hundred or two of those bitcoins and I'll call you whatever you want :P
640K dollars ought to be enough for anyone.
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Satoshi, whoever he is, does not have $8 billion in BTC.
There isn't anyone who would pay you $8 billion, or even a single billion, for any amount of BTC. The people with BTC sell tiny slices to suckers (aka investors) and pocket the cash or invest it in sometging with value. BTC has made no progress towards being a legitimate option, it's still just as much of a pyramid scheme today as it was at the start.
It'll cost you $60 just to conduct a BTC transaction today. And maybe it'll process in a few weeks.
It's not that bad. I just purchased a few things. My $7 mining fee transaction took about 24 hours. My $14 one went through instantly.
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Not that bad? 14 dollars fee to purchase "a few things" is INSANE! Most of the world live on less than that each day.
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Has Elon Musk the cure for the common cold?
Can Elon Musk walk on water?
Was Elon Musks mother a virgin?
Has Elon Musk invented vacuum tube maglev vehicles?
Please stop asking questions in the subject line of your articles. I've seen at least 3 of them today, and the answer is always NO.
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Satoshi
....a person from South Africa
Elon, we are onto you!
SAToshi
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Until today, I was unfamiliar with Betteridge's law.
Elon Musk is reincarnation of Nikola Tesla, Who else then?
Go ahead and laugh, just wait until Musk assembles his new company, RetroChronX, and they invent the first time machine. Then he'll go back in time, invent Bitcoin himself for real, and prove you naysayers wrong. While he's at it, he's going to (retro)invent the the microprocessor, Linux, and the Internet too!
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
"Satoshi" probably hasn't even been born yet. He traveled back in time to generate wealth for himself in the future; His innovation was creating a new currency, as opposed to using the old compound interest trick -- also makes actually procuring the money easier, no banks to deal with, just needs to have his keys.
... that Elon Musk writes his own code.
Does he not have minions for that?
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"Satoshi-level crypto knowledge" isn't a very high barrier. Bitcoin was assembled from well-known algorithms and protocols. See Narayanan and Clark, "Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree".
The innovation by the inventor(s) of Bitcoin ("Satoshi") was to put those pieces together in a particular way, under a catchy name, at the right time.
Which is what most inventors do, after all; I don't want to diminish the achievement. It's not every day that someone cobbles together something a bit different out of well-known ideas and it becomes a big industry phenomenon.
But it's quite a few days.
(So could it have been Musk? It's not impossible, but it doesn't strike me as very likely.)
Nope. Flat earth is still stupider... This is possible, no matter how improbable while flat earth is impossible.
Agree with the rest and also that the actual probability is equal to or less than that of me winning the lotto by finding a ticket on the ground.
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I guess my point, such as it is, is that there are at least a couple of thousand people in the world who tick most of the specific boxes in this story, plus a few the story didn't consider.
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I own no bitcoins and I am Satoshi Nakamoto.
I bet he's also the Zodiac killer.
Besides the fact that your information is wrong (unless you want to volunteer that much transaction fee), the Bitcoin whitepaper makes no claim that Bitcoin transactions are going to be cheap or free or fast, those are just promises and interpretations by early adopters and marketers. The innovation is that a network-based independent currency can be maintained with no central bank or authority - groundbreaking.
Clearly Musk did create Bitcoin.
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