| ▲ | Aboutplants 5 hours ago |
| Time to find out who Satoshi Nakamoto is |
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| ▲ | andai 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I read a few years back a report that the DoD had unmasked him via stylometry (i.e. matched his writing style to forum posts). |
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| ▲ | nowittyusername 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| IMO its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist... |
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| ▲ | Aboutplants 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | “Finney died in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 28, 2014 as a result of complications of ALS, and was cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.” Hmm, this guy is going to be woken up in a few decades, either one of the richest people in the world or one of most disappointed. | |
| ▲ | kirubakaran 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | imho it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo Initials match too ;) |
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| ▲ | conorcleary 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Was it sourceforge or ThinkGeek that had the code snippets? |
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| ▲ | bell-cot 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That was a throw-away name, and "he" was fabricated as part of an Nvidia demand-stimulation black op. You don't go from being an obscure video card outfit to the #1 most valuable company on the planet by being too hesitant or dim to really get creative. |
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| ▲ | brcmthrowaway 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is one of the best conspiracies I've ever heard... | | |
| ▲ | derektank 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It does provide an explanation as to why Satoshi’s wallets have gone untouched (besides him being dead). $70B ain’t that much compared to a $5T market cap. | |
| ▲ | bell-cot an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | "Conspiracy" requires an unlawful or wrongful purpose. Please assume that the op was run from a jurisdiction where using a pseudonym on the internet was not illegal, and various sorts of influencer and meme marketing were well-accepted practices. Really, compared to an animated tiger telling kids that sugar-laden Frosted Flakes(tm) are "Great!", Task Peppermint was positively benevolent. | | |
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| ▲ | reducesuffering 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Already determined, but yes frontier models will eventually identify them confidently |
