Re:Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
by mersenne on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @08:32PM
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You sound like a person that wants to believe that Satoshi Nakamoto is/was American.
Re:Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
by ashwagary on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:41PM
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Many US immigrants studied under the British system before arriving here. More Asians and Africans studied/follow this standard than actual Brits.
Nigerians, for example, follow this standard and they have 4 times the population of the UK.
Re:Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
by JetSetWilly on Thursday December 30, 2021 @03:57AM
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He wasn’t just using British spelling, but British coloquialisms that are not taught abroad. And he clearly wrote at a “native” level.
And he was active - writing commits and emails - in UK hours, not American hours.
Is it some kind of US nationalism that insists on ignoring all this?
Re:Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
by finite_jest on Thursday December 30, 2021 @04:26AM
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> British coloquialisms that are not taught abroad
What are some examples of those?
Re:Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
by JetSetWilly on Thursday December 30, 2021 @04:44AM
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He would use terms like "bloody hard" or "wet blanket" which I would doubt are taught to foreigners learning English even with British spelling.
However - his spelling was a bit inconsistent. The "Len Sassaman" theory is interesting - as he was known to write in a somewhat British style (for whatever reason) - but not consistently - and was in the right timezone at the time. Or perhaps Satoshi was a synthesis of multiple different people which would explain a lot of the inconsistency as well.
Re:Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
by ashwagary on Friday December 31, 2021 @08:44AM
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>He would use terms like "bloody hard" or "wet blanket" which I would doubt are taught to foreigners learning English even with British spelling.
These coloquialisms are common in Africa/Asia. This is the case for most ex-colonies.
Re:Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
by JetSetWilly on Thursday December 30, 2021 @03:02AM
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And presumably was getting up at 4am every day to bang out emails and code? Seems like there’s a simpler explanation.
2. If Satoshi were from the US, the easiest misdirection would be to pretend to be British. Learning the spelling and grammatical differences is not hard (or maybe test against a British spelling/grammar checker). Making sure you appear to be in a different timezone is basic operational security.
3. I would expect references to be intentional misdirections.