Len Sassaman and Satoshi

Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi by Meekro on Monday February 22, 2021 @07:25PM (#26232447)

Len is a good candidate, but here's one problem: Satoshi spoke up in 2014 on a long-dormant account[1] to say "I am not Dorian Nakamoto." This was a response to a Newsweek article that claimed to have found his identity.

So maybe someone hacked that account-- but then, why didn't we get any more Satoshi activity? Or maybe Len (who took his own life in 2011) isn't Satoshi after all!

[1] http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor...

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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi by perseusmandate on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:10PM (#26232746)

Satoshi's email was hacked and that wasn't signed with PGP

I think the consensus is that the statement wasn't real

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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi by wp381640 on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:24PM (#26233185)

Satoshi never signed mailing list posts, forum posts, any private emails that we have access to or even the early Bitcoin code releases

I don't know how this became the burden to prove that writing is from Satoshi since none of the well-known Satoshi writing meets it

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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi by diego on Monday February 22, 2021 @07:47PM (#26232594)

Yes, 2014 in fact is when Hal Finney died, a few months after that post. He is perhaps the strongest candidate for Satoshi, and if so we'll probably never know.

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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi by Tenoke on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:26PM (#26232850)

It's also possible Satoshi gave Finney access to that email and more just in case there's something important enough, I guess.

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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi by kragen on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:08PM (#26232733)

Maybe if the cryonics thing works out, but that's a long shot.

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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi by VectorLock on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:50PM (#26232994)

Thats a serious sci-fi plot right there. Man cryonically freezes himself after inventing a cryptocurrency, wakes up in the far future the richest man in the world.

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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi by shawnz on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:38PM (#26233272)

Interesting to wonder if he simply memorized the keys before being frozen, hoping that he could remember them if he were ever resuscitated.

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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi by fearthetelomere on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:31PM (#26233223)

Guessing you haven't seen Futurama. Not the same exact plot of course, but I immediately thought of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fishful_of_Dollars

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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi by VectorLock on Monday February 22, 2021 @11:27PM (#26233817)

Yes I've seen that episode. The crypto/most wealthy man in the world thing would be a variation of that.

They'd also be the typical Human Popsicle tropes about how horrified he'd be by how his creation was used.

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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi by kragen on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:39PM (#26233278)

Bitcoin is already pretty freaking sci-fi-plottish.

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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi by VectorLock on Monday February 22, 2021 @11:21PM (#26233787)

The whole Satoshi mythology is to me one of the greatest modern mysteries.

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