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Re:Someone claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto just wrote to the... by pstrateman on Saturday August 15, 2015 @04:37PM (#10066784)
The headers indicate that this email was legitimately sent by [email protected]

Satoshi used this email address in his first announcement of bitcoin.

I have never seen anything PGP signed by Satoshi, thus the lack of a signature does not indicate forgery.

Further to that point Satoshi meticulously employed strong operational security techniques, making it very likely that he/she/they destroyed the private key after withdrawing from the community.

The evidence isn't strong either way, however it's certainly leaning towards the email being legitimate.

Received: from mail.vistomail.com (vistomail.com [190.97.163.93]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2175813F for <[email protected]>; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:00:05 +0000 (UTC)

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588...

( Originally posted on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3h4goc/satoshi_nak... )

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Re:Someone claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto just wrote to the... by Andrew_Quentin on Saturday August 15, 2015 @09:10PM (#10067566)
Lmao. That looks as far away from something Satoshi would say, note how all the points of the "block minimalists" are mentioned, as night and day.

And Satoshi being reasonably smart would know that he needs some sort of evidence to not be called fake after years of not participating. I am sure too he knows how to sign one of his bitcoin addresses. Moreover, his e-mail account was hacked once, it was a different email address but it seems clear that he seems to have wanted those e-mail addresses to become breached at some point. And vistomail - the e-mail provider is no longer even operational.

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Re:Someone claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto just wrote to the... by pstrateman on Saturday August 15, 2015 @11:10PM (#10067822)
>And vistomail - the e-mail provider is no longer even operational.

Yes it is.

https://www.anonymousspeech.com/

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Re:Someone claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto just wrote to the... by mathieutd on Saturday August 15, 2015 @06:09PM (#10067136)
The header says that it's from vistomail.com. It doesn't have to be [email protected].
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Re:Someone claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto just wrote to the... by pstrateman on Saturday August 15, 2015 @11:08PM (#10067817)
The header indicates that it was sent via webmail.

Assuming vistomail.com is not compromised, then that indicates it was in fact sent by [email protected]

(I'll also note that they do not appear to expire registrations ever)

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