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Re:Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day... by vinger on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:42PM (#26148567)
They haven't uncovered who created bitcoin yet. While working with exchanges accounts can be linked to a person. The ability to do this at scale or find any person from any account isn't real.
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Re:Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day... by jki275 on Monday February 15, 2021 @07:16PM (#26149485)
Sure it is.

Chainalysis does it all the time.

Satoshi left the scene without ever cashing anything out, and before blockchain analysis really became a thing. He's not relevant to modern bitcoin at all outside of having been a founder of it a long time ago.

If he were spending bitcoin today, he could be found and identified easily, which is likely why he (actually the conglomerate that posed as him, Satoshi isn't likely a person) left once he achieved his goals.

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Re:Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day... by willbudd on Monday February 15, 2021 @07:22PM (#26149525)
Whether or not you can pay/receive currency anonymously has nothing to do with whether or not you can contribute source code and/or whitepapers anonymously.
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